Dr. Daniel Gross

Biography

Daniel P. Gross is an associate professor in the Strategy area at Duke's Fuqua School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Before joining Fuqua, he was faculty at Harvard Business School. His research examines the causes and consequences of technological change, focusing on crisis innovation, innovation policy, and the impacts of automation on firms, workers, and labor markets. Gross explores the links between innovation and entrepreneurial activity and employs various incentives and tools for managing creative workers in organizations. He uses historical examples from industries undergoing significant change to study modern economic, strategic, and policy questions. His work has been published in leading academic outlets such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science, and Research Policy, and has been covered by major national and international media outlets including the New York Times, NPR, the Atlantic, Vox, The Economist, and Harvard Business Review. His research has also been cited in Congressional testimony and the Economic Report of the President, and his funding has come from the National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation through NBER. Gross received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a graduate fellow at the National Science Foundation.

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