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    Andy Wu

    Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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    Andy Wu is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He conducts research on strategies for how technology entrepreneurs internally organize and externally mobilize resources to achieve scale for competitive advantage. He received the HBS Wyss Award, HBS Williams Award, Poets & Quants 40 Under 40, and Penn Prize in recognition of commitment and excellence in teaching and mentoring.

    Professor Wu is a founder, director, investor, or advisor of several technology ventures. He holds several patents across rapid prototyping, medical imaging, robotics, and e-commerce.

    He received a PhD and MS in Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior fellow at the school’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. While at Wharton, he received a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. He earned his SB in economics and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Burchard Scholar. 

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      How can entrepreneurs and management teams organize themselves and utilize information to optimally create and capture value from existing internal resources and resources they have yet to acquire? To answer this question, Professor Wu draws upon theoretical perspectives from organizational economics and strategic management and applies them to large data sets from a variety of organizational settings. He derives all of his research ideas from phenomena he has personally experienced in business. Professor Wu has studied the role of information in organizational decision making by using a phenomenon specific to venture capital—private angel investing by partners in a VC firm in companies that the firm has declined to fund. Such angel investments perform as well or better on some metrics than investments made by the firm, even though the angel-funded companies have less experienced leadership and are weaker on other observable characteristics. Investigating the effect of skilled immigration on U.S. innovation using data from an H-1B visa program lottery, Professor Wu has shown that winning this lottery does not significantly increase patent applications or grants at the firm level. He has also compared across-team and within-team technical experience diversity in biotechnology startups, finding that across-team diversity results in greater firm-level innovation benefits.

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