Daniel Armanios

Daniel Armanios is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Daniel’s current research lies at the intersection of institutions, strategy, and entrepreneurship. More specifically, he focuses on the local public institutional infrastructure necessary to support high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship. His research also places an emphasis on transitioning and post-conflict countries in the Global South such as China, Egypt, and Tunisia. To those ends, he uses a mixed methods approach that integrates qualitative and quantitative data to overcome data constraints that have historically hindered empirical analyses in these international contexts. His projects include understanding how interactions between national and local governments affect high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship in China and in the United States, as well as how the Arab Spring has affected public funding for entrepreneurship in Egypt and Tunisia.

Daniel’s work has been presented at numerous conferences, forums, and workshops internationally, leading to journal publications in top outlets such as the Strategic Management Journal, as well as reports for NASA, NOAA, and the UN-OHCHR, and his research has been supported through the Kauffman Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Daniel holds numerous recognitions such as being named a Goldwater Scholar (2004), a Truman Scholar (2005), Rhodes Scholar (2007), and a joint Stanford Graduate Benchmark and NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2009-2015). In 2016, he received the best dissertation award from the AOM TIM Division, as well as dissertation awards from the Industry Studies Association (ISA), INFORMS TIMES Division, and the AOM International Theme Committee (ITC). Daniel holds two Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.) and Political Science (Economics Minor) (B.A) in 2007, two Master’s degrees from the University of Oxford in Management Research (MSc) and Water Science, Policy and Management (MSc) in 2009, and a PhD from Stanford University in Management Science & Engineering in 2015.