Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
London Business School

Olenka Kacperczyk is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. She received her PhD from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Prior to LBS, Olenka held a faculty position at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Olenka’s research focuses on how entrepreneurial opportunity is allocated, and who captures its return. She studies both:

(a) the supply side of entrepreneurship, who gets access to entrepreneurial opportunities, who gets access to startup jobs, who exits and why;

(b) the organizational side of entrepreneurship: how startups hire, reward, and allocate opportunities, shaping rewards to founding or startup employment

Her research shows that inequality is often produced and reproduced through entrepreneurship, startup labor markets, and strategic human capital systems. She examines inequality in entrepreneurship and:

• which institutions produce it,

• which organizations reinforce it,

• which household arrangements shape it,

• which labor-market frictions maintain it,

• and which interventions can change it.

Olenka currently serves as an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly. She has previously served as an Associate Editor at Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Management Science. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Kauffman Junior Faculty Scholarship for Entrepreneurship Research and the William F. Glueck Award at the Academy of Management. Olenka teaches topics related to entrepreneurial strategy and strategic management in established firms.