Catherine Fazio

Catherine Fazio is a clinical assistant professor and the Faculty Director, MBA Programs at Boston University Questrom School of Business. She centers her work at the intersection of law, business strategy and innovation policy. Catherine previously served as the Managing Director of the MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy at the MIT Innovation Initiative. Prior to joining academia, Catherine was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, where she formulated the strategy and directed operations for multiple, billion-dollar arbitrations, served as lead antitrust counsel on a range of multinational mergers and acquisitions, and counseled clients on risk mitigation strategies. Catherine serves on the Board of Directors the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. She previously served on the Board of Trustees for the Atrium School in Watertown, Massachusetts. Catherine received a J.D. from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from the Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership at MIT, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.B.A., 2014, Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership
• Stanford University, J.D., 1993; Stanford Law Review; Stanford Law & Policy Review, 1990-1991
• University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Economics, 1990, with Highest Distinction in General Scholarship

Work Experience

Questrom School of Business

• Clinical Assistant Professor, Strategy & Innovation September 2022 - Present
• Lecturer, Markets, Public Policy and Law, and Strategy & Innovation Departments January 2018-July 2022
• Executive Director, Boston University Innovation Quorum September 2019 - June 2020
• Academic Director, Full Time MBA Action Learning Capstone June 2021 - June 2022
• Faculty Director, MBA Programs July 2020 - Present

MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy

• June 2020 Research Affiliate January 2018 - June 2020
• Managing Director July 2014 - January 2018

Copenhagen Business School

• Visiting Scholar, Department of Business and Politics August-December 2016

MIT Innovation Initiative

• Chief of Staff October 2013 - June 2014

Bioelectric, Inc.

• Cofounder September 2013 - June 2014

Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Illinois

• Partner, Antitrust and Litigation September 2001 June 2013

United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division

• Trial Attorney 1998 - 2001

Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, Boston, Massachusetts

• Associate 1995 - 1998

Christensen, White, Miller, Fink & Jacobs, Los Angeles, California

• Associate 1993 1995

Selected Publications

• Andrews, R., Fazio, C., Guzman, J., Liu, Y., Stern, S. (2022). "Reprint of “The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems”", Research Policy, 51 (9), 104581-104581
• Fazio, C., Stern, S., Guzman, J., Liu, Y., Andrews, R. (2022). "The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and Mapping Entrepreneurial Ecosystems", Research Policy
• Fazio, C., Guzman, J., Stern, S. (2020). "The Impact of State-Level Research and Development Tax Credits on the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship", Economic Development Quarterly, 34 (2), 188-208
• Fazio, C., Stern, S., Guzman, J., Liu, Y. (2020). "New Business Needs a Big Rescue Too", Forbes.com
• Fazio, C., Catalini, C., Murray, F. (2016). "CAN EQUITY CROWDFUNDING DEMOCRATIZE ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES?", MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy
• Fazio, C., Stern, S., Murray, F., Guzman, J. (2015). "A New View of the Skew: A Quantitative Assessment of the Quality of American Entrepreneurship", The Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation
• Fazio, C. (2013). Merger Remedies: The Greater Use by the DOJ and FTC of an Expanding Toolkit."RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ANTITRUST LAW: LEADING LAWYERS ON UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF REVISED MERGER GUIDELINES, RESPONDING TO INVESTIGATIONS, AND ANTICIPATING FUTURE CHANGES IN ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT", Thomson Reuters Westlaw 51-51
• Fazio, C., Stern, S. (2000). "Innovation Incentives, Compatibility and Expropriation as an Antitrust Remedy: the Legacy of the Borland/Ashton-Tate Consent Decree", Antitrust Law Journal 45-71