Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Amir Sariri. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
I am an assistant professor of strategic management at Purdue University, currently visiting the TIES group at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining Purdue, I founded and led the R&D group, Creative Destruction Lab, a non-profit mentoring program for technology startups. I continue to help run CDL's Space Stream, advising the R&D team on expanding research-grade databases in entrepreneurship studies. My research examines how information asymmetries and heterogeneous beliefs shape entrepreneurial decision-making and firm development. I study how differences among entrepreneurs, investors, and employees regarding startup quality can affect critical early-stage outcomes. My work reveals that seemingly implausible ideas can generate extraordinary value, while obvious opportunities may fail, and that structured approaches to learning can improve entrepreneurial resource allocation. During my doctoral studies at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, I built the world's largest relational database of early-stage entrepreneurship, incorporating both structured operational data and unstructured transcripts of mentor-founder interactions across 27 technological domains. My infrastructure has secured $25 million from the Government of Canada's Strategic Innovation Fund and supports four published papers along with fifteen projects in progress at multiple institutions. My research has been published in Management Science and the American Economic Journal, and has been featured in The Economist, Globe and Mail, and Frankfurter Allgemeine. I was recognized with the Heizer Dissertation Award and the Royal Bank of Canada's Borealis AI Fellowship.
GRE is not required.