Jorge Guzman

Dr. Jorge Guzman is an assistant professor at the Management Division in Columbia Business School. Jorge received his PhD from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and was previously a postdoc at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a lecturer at MIT Sloan. His research focuses on entrepreneurship policy, regional entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial strategy. He was previously involved in the Boston startup ecosystem, and has been an advisor to numerous startups on varied topics, and to regional and national policy agencies on the design of entrepreneurship ecosystems.

Areas of Expertise

• Latin America, Management, Strategy

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012 — 2017)
• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2009 — 2011)
• B.S Tecnológico de Monterrey (2002 — 2006)

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Guzman, J and S Stern. 2015.
  Where is Silicon Valley?
  Science. 347(6222): 606-609

• Guzman, J and A Kacperczyk. 2019.
  Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship.
  Research Policy. 48 (9): 1666-1680.

• Guzman, J and S Stern. 2020.
  The State of American Entrepreneurship? New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 32 US States, 1988-2014
  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 12 (4): 212-43

• Fazio, C, J Guzman and S Stern. 2020.
  The Impact of State-Level R&D Tax Credits on the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship
  Economic Development Quarterly. 34(2):188-208. (link)

• Guzman, J, J Oh and A Sen. 2020.
  What Motivates Innovative Entrepreneurs? Evidence from a Global Field Experiment.
  Management Science. 66 (10): 4808-19.

• Conti, A, and J Guzman. 2021.
  What is the U.S. Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Israeli Migrations to the United States.
  The Review of Economics and Statistics. Forthcoming

• Guzman, J, and A Li. 2021.
  Measuring Founding Strategy
  Management Science. Forthcoming.

• Andrews, RJ, C Fazio, Y Liu, J Guzman, and S Stern. 2022.
  The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and Mapping Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Research Policy. 51 (2).

Working Papers

Revise & Resubmit

• Guzman, J. 2018.
  Go West Young Firm: The Benefits of Startup Relocation to Silicon Valley
  Revise & Resubmit at Management Science.

• Guzman, J. 2020.
  The Direct Effect of Corporate Law on Entrepreneurship.
  Revise & Resubmit at The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations.

• Bryan, K, and J Guzman. 2021.
  Entrepreneurial Migration.
  Revise & Resubmit at The Review of Economics and Statistics.

Working Papers

• Catalini, C, J Guzman and S Stern. 2019.
  Passive Versus Active Growth: Evidence from Founder Choices and Venture Capital Investment.

• Guzman, J, and Y Liu. 2020.
  Short Term Credit Costs and U.S. Entrepreneurship.

• Conti, A, J Guzman, and R Rabi. 2020.
  Herding in the Market for Startup Acquisitions.

• Guzman, J, J Oh, and A Sen. 2020.
  How Do (Green) Innovators Respond to Climate Change Scenarios? Evidence from a Field Experiment

• Engelberg, J, J Guzman, R Liu, and W Mullins. 2021.
  Partisan Entrepreneurship

• Fazio, C, J Guzman, Y Liu, and S Stern. 2021.
  How is COVID Changing the Geography of Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Startup Cartography Project

• Guzman, J. 2021.
  Treatment Effects in Strategic Management: With an Application to Choosing Early Stage Venture Capital .

Book Volumes

• Guzman, Jorge and Scott Stern. 2017. Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance. in Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges. Eds. John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar. University of Chicago Press. 1st Edition. (link)

Policy Reports and Press Articles

• Fazio, Cathy, Jorge Guzman, Fiona Murray and Scott Stern. 2016. A New View of the Skew: A Quantitative Assessment of the Quality of American Entrepreneurship. MIT Innovation Initiative Laboratory for Innovation Science and Policy. Policy Report