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Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellows

The Kauffman Foundation established the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research in 2008 to recognize tenured or tenure-track junior faculty members at accredited U.S. universities who are beginning to establish a record of scholarship and exhibit the potential to make significant contributions to the body of research in the field of entrepreneurship.

This initiative helped launch world-class scholars into a young and exciting field of research, thus laying a foundation for future scientific advancement. The body of work produced by these fellows has helped establish entrepreneurship as a legitimate field of academic study. The output of this initiative will be translated into knowledge with significant applications for policymakers, educators, service providers, and entrepreneurs, as well as high-quality academic research.

The Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship was part of a group of academic recognition programs established by the Kauffman Foundation that were consolidated into the Kauffman Knowledge Challenge starting in 2018.


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2018
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Susan CohenAssistant Professor of Management
University of Georgia
Lin William CongAssistant Professor of Finance
University of Chicago
Francesco D’AcuntoAssistant Professor
Boston College
Beth RedbirdAssistant Professor of Sociology
Northwestern University
Ariel D. SternAssistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Laurina ZhangAssistant Professor of Strategy and Innovation
Georgia Institute of Technology
2017
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Seth Carnahan*Assistant Professor of Strategy
University of Michigan
Christian CataliniFred Kayne (1960) Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship, Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bo Cowgill*Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School
Sabrina T. HowellAssistant Professor of Finance
New York University
Benjamin Wild Pugsley*Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Notre Dame
Dan J. Wang*Assistant Professor of Management and (by courtesy) Sociology
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
Tiantian Yang*Assistant Professor, SociologyDuke University
2016
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Erik Gilje*Assistant Professor of FinanceUniversity of Pennsylvania
Laura HuangAssistant Professor of Management
University of Pennsylvania
Amol M. Joshi*Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Oregon State University
Elena KulchinaAssistant Professor, Strategy
Duke University
Elizabeth LyonsAssistant Professor of Management and Organization
University of California, San Diego
Mahka Moeen*Assistant Professor of Strategy and EntrepreneurshipUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard R. TownsendAssistant Professor of Business AdministrationUniversity of California, San Diego
2015
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Manuel AdelinoAssistant Professor of FinanceDuke University
Jean-Noël BarrotAssistant Professor of Finance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jason Greenberg*Assistant Professor of Management
New York University
Kyle HandleyAssistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
University of Michigan
Shon R. Hiatt*Assistant Professor of Management and Organization
University of Southern California
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato*Assistant Professor of EconomicsDuke University
Sarah Thébaud*Assistant Professor, SociologyUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
2014
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Ufuk AkcigitAssistant Professor of EconomicsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Shai Bernstein*Assistant Professor of FinanceStanford University
Nathan R. FurrAssistant Professor of EntrepreneurshipBrigham Young University
Rory M. McDonald*Assistant Professor of Business AdministrationHarvard Business School
Benjamin MollAssistant Professor of Economics and International AffairsPrinceton University
Alexander OettlAssistant Professor of Strategic ManagementGeorgia Institute of Technology
Heidi L. WilliamsAssistant ProfessorMassachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Michael EwensAssistant Professor of Finance and EntrepreneurshipCarnegie Mellon University
Cesare FracassiAssistant Professor of FinanceUniversity of Texas at Austin
Aleksandra (Olenka) Kacperczyk
Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic ManagementMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Matt Marx*Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic ManagementMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Ethan Mollick*
Assistant Professor of ManagementUniversity of Pennsylvania
Henry Sauermann*Assistant Professor, Strategic ManagementGeorgia Institute of Technology
Robert SeamansAssistant Professor of Management and OrganizationsNew York University
2012
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Natarajan BalasubramanianAssistant Professor of ManagementSyracuse University
Martin Ganco*Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Minnesota
Deepak Hegde*
Assistant Professor of Management and OrganizationsNew York University
Chris Rider*Assistant ProfessorEmory University
Michael Roach
Assistant Professor of Strategy and EntrepreneurshipUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Raffaella SadunAssistant Professor of Business AdministrationHarvard Business School
E. Glen WeylAssistant ProfessorUniversity of Chicago
2010
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Francisco BueraAssistant Professor of EconomicsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Brett Anitra Gilbert*Assistant Professor of ManagementTexas A&M University
Jeremy A. Greene
Assistant Professor of the History of ScienceHarvard University
William Kerr^Assistant ProfessorHarvard Business School
Ramana Nanda*^
Assistant Professor of Business AdministrationHarvard Business School
2009
NameFellowship TitleFellowship Institution
Aaron K. Chatterji*^Assistant Professor of StrategyDuke University
Waverly W. Ding*Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Industrial RelationsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Gary DushnitskyAssociate Professor of ManagementUniversity of Pennsylvania
Jon EckhardtAssistant Professor of ManagementUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison
Andrew J. NelsonAssistant Professor of ManagementUniversity of Oregon