Daniel Fehder

Daniel Fehder is an Assistant Professor at USC's Marshall School in the Management and Organization Department. His research focuses on the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the growing role of entrepreneurship programs (e.g. accelerators, hackathons, pitch competitions, etc) in catalyzing these processes. To that end, he has helped manage the Seed Accelerator Ranking Program and has worked closely with the top management at MassChallenge. He is a recent graduate of the PhD program at MIT Sloan from the TIES Group. Prior to his PhD education, Daniel helped lead a startup as the Senior VP of Business Development for PriceSCAN. He holds an AB from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and a MA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management (2010 — 2016)
• MA University of Pennsylvania (2003 — 2005)
• A.B. Harvard University (1999 — 2003)
• Haverford (1995 — 1999)
• Haverford

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Management and Organization University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business (2017)
• Research Affiliate Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)
• Associate Director and Chief Technologist Seed Accelerator Ranking Project (2014)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Rice University (2016 — 2017)
• PhD Candidate MIT Sloan School of Management (2010 — 2016)
• Vice President of Business Development PriceSCAN.com (2006 — 2010)
• Associate Easton Associates (2005 — 2006)

Skills

• Data Analysis
• Valuation
• Corporate Development

Other

Entrepreneurship, Financial Modeling, Venture Capital, Strategy