Featured Researcher: Jorge Guzman
Jorge Guzman is the Gantcher Associate Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School, where he has been a faculty member since 2018, and a faculty research fellow in the NBER’s Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program.
His research focuses on entrepreneurship policy, regional entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial strategy. A centerpiece of his work is the Startup Cartography Project, which uses population-level business registration records and predictive analytics to generate new measures of entrepreneurial quantity, quality, and performance across places. The project includes a publicly accessible interactive website, data repository, and research archive designed to help researchers, policymakers, and private sector analysts visualize and track entrepreneurial ecosystems over time. He has advised regional and national policy agencies, as well as startup companies, on the design of entrepreneurial ecosystems. His research has been funded by numerous organizations, including the National Science Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation.
Guzman earned a BS in Computer Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and an MBA and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the NBER and a lecturer at MIT.
