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Matt Marx
Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Chair and Faculty Director of Entrepreneurship at Cornell University. Faculty Research Fellow at NBER. I like building datasets and startups.
Matt Marx is the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management & Organizations at Cornell University, where he has been serving as the Faculty Director of Entrepreneurship since July 2021.12 He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.24
Marx's research focuses on reducing barriers to the commercialization of science and technology, drawing from his decade-long experience as an executive and engineer at two speech-recognition industry startups.1 His work has been influential in policy reforms related to employee non-compete agreements and job mobility.1
Prior to joining Cornell, Marx held positions as:
- Associate Professor at Boston University Questrom School of Business (2017-2020)
- Associate Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management (2009-2017)
- Vice President of Customer Solutions at Tellme Networks (1999-2004)
- Software Engineer at SpeechWorks (1993-1998)2
Marx holds six patents and has an impressive educational background:
- BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University
- Master's degree from the MIT Media Lab
- MBA and doctoral degrees from Harvard University12
His research has been published in prestigious journals across multiple disciplines, and he has been involved in creating large-scale, open datasets for the scientific community.13
