Erin Scott

Erin L Scott is a Senior Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Scott’s work focuses on uncertainty and strategic development in early-stage ventures. Most recently, her work was featured in the Harvard Business Review and Management Science. At MIT Sloan, she teaches Entrepreneurial Founding & Teams (MBA), Entrepreneurial Strategy (EMBA/Sloan Fellows), as well as assorted MBA and Sloan Fellows innovation and strategy courses. In addition, Scott mentors MIT startups and consults for ventures within the broader ecosystem.Scott holds a holds a BE and an MBA-MS in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis, respectively. A recipient of the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, she earned her PhD in strategy from Washington University in St. Louis. Scott then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy Group. She began her academic career at the National University of Singapore.

Education

• PhD Washington University in St. Louis
• MS Washington University in St. Louis
• MBA Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School
• BE Vanderbilt University

Companies

• Senior Lecturer MIT Sloan School of Management (2017)
• Assistant Professor, Strategy & Policy National University of Singapore (2013 — 2017)
• Innovation Policy and the Economy Post-Doctoral Fellow National Bureau of Economic Research (2012 — 2013)
• Graduate Analyst, Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise (Incubator) Monsanto Company (2005 — 2007)
• New Venture Consultant BioGenerator (2005 — 2007)
• Radiology Intern, Center for Technology-Guided Therapy Vanderbilt University (2003 — 2003)