Yael Hochberg, Ph.D.

Professor of Business
Head, Rice University Entrepreneurship Initiative

yaelpublic@rice.edu

Professor Yael Hochberg's research and teaching interests are focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the financing of entrepreneurial activity. Her research focuses on the venture capital industry, accelerators, networks and corporate governance and compensation policies. 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. Her research has been published in top tier journals, including Science, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Financial Economics, and has been presented at numerous universities and governmental bodies around the world. She previously served as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Empirical Finance, and the Review of Finance.

Prof. Hochberg serves as the Head of the Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rice University. She holds a Visiting Scholar position with MIT’s Innovation Initiative and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prof. Hochberg is also Managing Director of the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project, which publishes the annual ranking of accelerator programs in the U.S. 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.

For more information on the Rice University entrepreneurship Initiative, visit entreprenuership.rice.edu.