Ricardo Laverde

I earned my PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change. My research studies how organizations and leaders adapt to uncertainty in emerging markets by reallocating resources, updating beliefs, and reshaping capabilities in response to shocks.

 

I examine how firms and decision makers respond to changing environments, analyzing how they reallocate human capital, technological capabilities, and knowledge assets across activities and markets. My work explores the conditions under which these adjustments lead to sustained competitive advantage or persistent performance differences.

 

A central focus of my research is understanding how decision processes and institutional contexts shape adaptation. I study how leaders approach complex problems under uncertainty, how firms redeploy capabilities following economic shocks, and how policies and market structures influence both the allocation of innovation inputs such as STEM talent and the governance of knowledge through mechanisms such as intellectual property.

 

Using a combination of empirical and analytical methods, I investigate how organizations transform resources into performance in dynamic environments, with particular emphasis on emerging markets and global contexts.