Startup Innovation

Books and Chapters

• (with David Edery) “Changing the Game: How Videogames are Transforming the Future of Business.” Financial Times/Pearson Press.(2009).
  • One of the Top Ten Business Books of 2009 by the American Library Association’s Booklist. Reviews or mentions in The Economist, Financial Times, Inc Magazine.
  • Other press about my work on gaming and business: CNBC interview (June, 2011), Wall Street Journal (June, 2011)
• (with Kevin Werbach), “Games and the Enterprise” in Steffen P. Walz and Sebastian Deterding (eds.), The Gameful World. MIT Press. (2015)
• (with Venkat Kuppuswamy) “Crowdfunding: Evidence on the Democratization of Startup Funding” in Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation, edited by Karim Lakhani and Dietmar Harhoff (Forthcoming)

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Scholarly Papers

• Filthy Lucre? Innovative Communities, Identity, and Commercialization, Organization Science, Forthcoming.
  • Selected press coverage about this paper: Knowledge@Wharton
• (with Jason Greenberg) Leaning in or Leaning On? Gender, Homophily, and Activism in Crowdfunding, Administrative Science Quarterly, Forthcoming.
  • Select press coverage: Wall Street Journal, Time, Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post
• (with Ramana Nanda) “Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts,” Management Science, 2016, 62 (6), 1533 – 155
  • Select press coverage: New York Times, Crowdsourcing
• (with Alicia Robb) Democratizing Innovation and Capital Access: The Role of Crowdfunding,  California Management Review, 2016, 58 (2).
• (with Matthew Bidwell, Shinjae Won, and Roxana Barbulescu) “I Used to Work at Goldman Sachs! Status, Careers, and Competitive Advantage,” Strategic Management Journal, 36 (8), 2015, pages 1115 – 1276.
• “Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure,” Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 1–16
  
  • Selected press coverage about this paper: Forbes, VentureBeat, Wired, Fast Company, Inc.
• “People and Process, Suits and Innovators: The Role of Individuals in Firm Performance.” Strategic Management Journal, 2012
  • Selected press coverage about this paper: Knowledge@Wharton, Financial Times, CBS Interactive, Economic Times of India, the Economist
• “Establishing Moore’s Law.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 28(3): 62-75, (2006).
• “ Working with the Underground.” Sloan Management Review, (2005).
• “Engines of the Underground: The Elite-Kiddie Divide.” ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, Issue 25, Vol. 2, (2005).

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Working Papers and Papers Under Review

• Delivery Rates on Kickstarter
  • Press: CNBC
• “Swept Away by the Crowd? Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, and the Selection of Entrepreneurs”
  • Selected press coverage: Inc., Knowledge@Wharton
• “Mandatory Fun: Gamification and Games at Work” (with Nancy Rothbard)
  • Selected press coverage about this paper: GamificationCo, Knowledge@Wharton, Economist
• “In the Blood: Organizational History and the Heritability of New Venture Performance.”
• “After the Campaign: Outcomes of Crowdfunding.” (with Venkat Kuppuswamy)

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Gamography

• (with Sarah Toms) Looking Glass, Alternate Reality Teaching simulation (2015)
• IdeaMachine (2014)
• The Startup Game (2013)

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