Prof. Hochberg serves as the Head of the Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rice University. In 2015, she was named one of the world’s 40 under 40 best business school professors by Poets and Quants. In 2016, she was awarded the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. In addition to her doctorate in finance from Stanford, she holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University. She holds a Research Affiliate position with MIT’s Innovation Initiative and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to her appointment at Rice, Prof. Hochberg was faculty at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern) and the Johnson School of Management (Cornell) and has held visiting appointments at MIT and University of Chicago.