Yael Hochberg

Yael Hochberg is an American economist and the Ralph S. O'Connor Professor of entrepreneurship and finance at Rice University.

Education and career Hochberg graduated from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where she earned her MA in economics, and PhD in finance from the Stanford University. Her research and teaching interests include entrepreneurship, innovation, venture capital, accelerators, networks, and corporate governance. She serves as the Head of the Entrepreneurship Initiative at Rice University and as Academic Director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Hochberg served the faculty at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Johnson School of Management of the Cornell University before becoming the Head of the Entrepreneurship Initiative at Rice University, and Academic Director of the Rice Alliance. Hochberg simultaneously holds a Research Affiliate position at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was previously a visiting faculty member.

Outside of her university career, Hochberg has held positions in entrepreneurship firms including a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Managing Director of the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Empirical Finance.

Awards Hochberg has been recognized for her contributions. Poets&Quants named her among the 40 Under 40 best business school professors in 2015. She was the recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship in 2016.

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