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Matt Marx

Matt Marx

  • Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
  • Faculty Director of Entrepreneurship at Cornell
  • Department Editor, Management Science

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Faculty Area

Faculty Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Technology Strategy

Contact

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

607.255.6598

mmarx@cornell.edu

375B Warren Hall

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Biography

Matt Marx is the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Management & Organizations in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management within the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He serves as Department Editor for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Management Science and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he chairs the Innovation Information Initiative. Previously, he was an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and Boston University's Questrom School of Business.

Marx's research focuses on reducing barriers to the commercialization of science and technology, which he experienced firsthand during a decade as an executive and engineer at two startups in the speech-recognition industry that achieved a combined $1.4 billion dollars in equity value. His articles have appeared in journals from multiple disciplines including Management Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Review of Financial Studies, Organization Science, the American Sociological Review, and Science. His work on employee non-compete agreements and job mobility played a key role in policy reforms for Hawaii and Massachusetts. Press coverage includes the New York Times, BBC, The Economist, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Wired, Fortune, Forbes, and Bloomberg.

As head of the Innovation Information Initiative steering committee, Marx curates large-scale, open datasets for the scientific commons. Available at RelianceOnScience.org, his citations from worldwide patents to scientific articles has been downloaded more than 100,000 times. His work has been supported by more than $2.5 million in grants and awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and other sources.

Marx holds six patents as well as a BS in symbolic systems from Stanford University; a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab; and both MBA and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.

Selected Publications

Awards and Honors

  • Management Faculty Research Excellence (2025) Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (2024) Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Recent Courses

  • AEM 2220 - Dilemmas in Entrepreneurship
  • NRE 5480 - Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research: Theories, Processes, and Contexts
  • NBAE 5750 - Technology Strategy

Academic Degrees

  • DBA Harvard University, 2009
  • MBA Harvard University, 2005
  • MS Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
  • BS Stanford University, 1993

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