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Sara Mahabadi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta’s Alberta School of Business, specializing in the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship through an organizational theory lens, examining how investors like venture capitalists and accelerators influence startup hiring, evaluation, and acceleration processes. She employs ethnographic methods, interviews, and archival data to analyze these dynamics.
Education: She holds an MBA (2017) and a PhD in Management (Organizational Behavior, 2023) from McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. Before joining the University of Alberta in 2022, she held academic roles at McGill.
Research Interests: Key areas include entrepreneurial identity, startup ecosystem interactions, venture capital influence, and hiring practices in early-stage companies. Her work bridges organizational behavior and entrepreneurship to explore how external stakeholders shape startup trajectories.
Awards: Recognitions include multiple ASB EFF-SAS Awards (2022–23), an ASB Teaching Grant, and the 2017 National Bank Financial Group PhD Fellowship. Her research has been presented at leading conferences like the Academy of Management and Wharton People and Organizations Conference.
Teaching and Grants: Teaches strategy and entrepreneurship courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. Active in securing research grants focused on entrepreneurship education and innovation ecosystems. Her work often highlights the paradoxes in startup evaluation and the role of accelerators in shaping entrepreneurial identities.
