Valentina A. Assenova

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1 Valentina A. Assenova Edward P. Evans Hall, +1 (202) EDUCATION Ph.D., Management,, expected 2017 M.Phil., Management,, 2015 M.A., Management,, 2014 M.B.A., Management, University of Cambridge, 2012 B.Sc., Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2008 RESEARCH INTERESTS Organization and management theory, behavioral strategy, emerging markets and entrepreneurship, financial markets, field experiments, quantitative methods. JOURNAL ARTICLES [1] Assenova, Valentina and Olav Sorenson Informality and Firm Performance. Revise & Resubmit, Organization Science. Best International Paper in Organization and Management Theory, Academy of Management, Finalist, All-Academy Carolyn Dexter Award, Academy of Management, [2] Assenova, Valentina Social Learning in the Presence of Inequality and Heterogeneity. Under review, Industrial and Corporate Change. [3] Sorenson, Olav, Valentina Assenova, Jason Boada, and Lee Fleming Does the Crowd Promise to Fund More Innovation? Under review, Science. [4] Assenova, Valentina, Jason Best, Mike Cagney, Douglas Ellenoff, Kate Karas, Jay Moon, Sherwood Neiss, Ron Suber, and Olav Sorenson The Present and Future of Crowdfunding. California Management Review 58(2): [5] Aronow, Peter, Cyrus Samii, and Valentina Assenova Cluster Robust Variance Estimation for Dyadic Data. Political Analysis 23(4): [6] Assenova, Valentina Determinants of the Music Piracy Divide. Issues in Political Economy 16(1):1-20. BOOK CHAPTERS [1] Erikson, Emily and Valentina Assenova New Forms of Organization and the Coordination of Political and Commercial Actors. In Emily Erikson (Ed.), Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics, London, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 1-13.

2 Valentina A. Assenova Page 2 of 5 WORKING PAPERS [1] Assenova, Valentina Variance-based Competition and Resource Concentration. Job Market Paper. [2] Assenova, Valentina Multiplexity as a Conduit and Sieve of Information in Embedded Markets. Second Dissertation Paper. [3] Assenova, Valentina Inter-Organizational Investments and the Returns to Private Equity. Third Dissertation Paper. [4] Assenova, Valentina A Gravity Model of Markets. [5] Assenova, Valentina Public Organizations, Competition, and Performance: Evidence from California s Public School System. WORK IN PROGRESS [1] Ederer, Florian, Constança Esteves-Sorenson, and Valentina Assenova Expectations and Gift Exchange. Data Collection. OTHER PUBLICATIONS [1] Assenova, Valentina The Impact of Entrepreneurial Training on Enterprise Growth: Evidence from Awethu in South Africa. Report for Awethu s Entrepreneurship Incubator. [2] Assenova, Valentina Qualifications of Investments in Solar Equipment under 12 USC 24 (Eleventh) Part 24. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, United States Department of the Treasury. [3] Assenova, Valentina Vladimir Dimitrov-Maistora s Bulgarian Madonna: Creed, Criticism, Propaganda. Penn Humanities Forum on Word and Image. AWARDS Best International Paper, Organization and Management Theory 2015 Finalist, Carolyn Dexter Award, Academy of Management 2015 Conference Travel Fellow, 2015 Director s Award & First Class Honors, University of Cambridge 2012 Wharton Research Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Mellon Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Robert & Rosalie Cort Scholar, University of Pennsylvania INVITED SEMINARS Comparative Research Workshop April 2015 Center for Comparative Research Discussant, Re-assessing Labor and Value Transfer from a Global Perspective by Andrea Komlosy, Joseph Shumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. Leitner Seminar October 2014 Political Science Department Firm Registration and Employment Growth in sub-saharan Africa. Comparative Research Workshop October 2014 Center for Comparative Research Discussant, American Securitization: Housing Finance and the Hidden Politics of Debt by Sarah Quinn, University of Washington.

3 Valentina A. Assenova Page 3 of 5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Innovator (Executive MBA) Spring 2016 Professor Rodrigo Canales Big Data (MBA) Spring 2015 Professors Donald Lee & Vahideh Manshadi Groups and Teams (MBA) Fall 2014 & 2015 Team taught Strategic Management (MBA) Spring 2013 Professor Amandine Ody-Brasier Business in the Global Polit. Env. Fall 2007 Teaching Assistant Wharton School Professor Gerald Faulhaber CONFERENCE PAPERS Academy of Management August 2016 Anaheim, CA Information Salience and the Adoption of Microfinance Market Structure and the Advancement of Innovations CCC Doctoral Conference June 2016 Milan, Italy Performance Variance and Private Equity Capital Allocation in the United States Academy of Management August 2015 Vancouver, BC Gray Matters in the Growth of Markets Decoupling Under Pressure American Sociological Association August 2015 Chicago, IL Gray Matters in the Growth of Markets Decoupling Under Pressure Organizational Ecology June 2015 Istanbul, Turkey TADC London Business School May 2015 London, UK

4 Valentina A. Assenova Page 4 of 5 Business in Africa Conference April 2015 Syracuse, NY UNIVERSITY SERVICE Representative Graduate Student Assembly Advisory Committee to the Dean Graduate School of Arts and Sciences PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer, Strategic Management Society Reviewer, Academy of Management Chair, Interorganizational Cooperation & Coordination Paper Session, Organization and Management Theory, 2016, Anaheim, CA Organizer, Organization and Management Theory Café, Dynamic Models of Market Structure, 2016, Anaheim, CA Organizer, Organization and Management Theory Café, Governance at the Nexus of Organizations and Markets, 2015, Vancouver, BC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE The Awethu Project Impact Evaluation of Startup South Africa Incubator OPIC (U.S. Government) 2012 Summer Associate, Socially Responsible Finance Ogilvy & Mather Group 2012 Consultant, OgilvyOne London, UK Redgate Software 2011 Consultant, Agile Implementation Cambridge, UK FINCA International 2010 Consultant, Capital Markets Group Bank of America Merrill Lynch Assistant Vice President OTHER SKILLS Programming: R, knitr, Sweave, Stata, Matlab, NetLogo, BibTex, LATEX Software: ArcGIS, Prism, Mendeley, Gephi, Inkscape, Vensim

5 Valentina A. Assenova Page 5 of 5 REFERENCES Olav Sorenson Frederick Frank 54 and Mary C. Tanner (203) Marissa King (203) James Baron William S. Beinecke (203) Balázs Kovács Assistant Professor (203) Last updated: May 6, 2016