Faculty & Research

Aleksandra J. Kacperczyk

Assistant Professor of Strategy

Biography

Aleksandra Kacperczyk is an Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Aleksandra's work focuses on how social structures shape the processes of entrepreneurship and innovation. Using the lens of organization theory and economic sociology, her research examines how such processes are generated and how they affect the key outcomes for organizations and individuals.

Aleksandra's current research explores how entrepreneurial processes interact with organizational boundaries in knowledge-intensive industries via an individuals decision to found a new venture inside the organization or leave to launch a new idea through a start-up. Using biographical data on portfolio managers in the mutual fund and hedge fund industries over the last two decades, she examines how school ties, identity, and career imprinting affect an individuals entrepreneurship choices. In her other projects, she studies how changes in the legal environments reshape organizational boundaries by shifting managerial attention to non-shareholding stakeholders, and how work boundaries influence the structure and content of social ties across time and different cultures.

Aleksandra received her PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan and her BA degree from Mount Holyoke College. Her work experience includes strategy consulting to multiple entrepreneurial ventures in transition economies in Central Europe. Aleksandra lived and worked in several countries including Poland, France, and Canada.