Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. I study why start-ups succeed or fail to capture entrepreneurial opportunities. To address this question, I focus on two antecedents of a firm's decision-making process: organizational structure and managerial cognition. I examine their roles in entrepreneurship by combining big data analytics, in-depth interviews, and computational modeling.

My dissertation was recognized as the winner of the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition (2019) and the winner of the Strategic Management Society Best Conference PhD Paper Prize (2019).

For more information, please feel free to contact me at saeroms@wharton.upenn.edu.