Sachin Srivastava

Doctoral Student

Contact Information

Primary Email:
sachin17@wharton.upenn.edu

office Address:
2054 SH-DH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Finance

Links: Personal Website, LinkedIn, CV

Overview

I am a doctoral student in Management at the Wharton School, specializing in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Finance. My current research explores how work experience at big tech firms leads to startup spawning, comparing first-generation immigrants, second-generation immigrants, and natives. I am also studying the returns to entrepreneurship across countries and how they vary due to factors such as culture, access to formal financing, and regulation. Before joining Wharton, I worked as a predoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School with Professor Paul Gompers, where I co-authored studies on peer effects in hiring and assessed career outcomes using non-wage measures. My independent work examines how high-skilled immigration affects the career trajectories of the US-born labor force. I hold a dual Masters in Innovation Management and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from India.

Outside of research, I enjoy hiking, astrophotography, and traveling to explore new cultures. I am also passionate about adventure sports such as skydiving and am currently working toward obtaining my Private Pilot License (PPL).

Research

Natee Amornsiripanitch, Paul Gompers, George Hu, Will Levinson, Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Sachin Srivastava (Work In Progress), From Field to Firm: College Sports and Early-Stage Career Choice.
Alessandro Acquisti, Sachin Srivastava, Ryan Steed (Work In Progress), Long-term Economic Impacts of Privacy Regulation.
Sachin Srivastava (Work In Progress), Skilled Migration, Spillovers, and Labor Market Outcomes.
Natee Amornsiripanitch, Paul Gompers, George Hu, Will Levinson, Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Sachin Srivastava (Work In Progress), Winning Resumes: Evidence from a Resume Experiment on Athlete Hiring Advantage.
Natee Amornsiripanitch, Paul Gompers, George Hu, Will Levinson, Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Sachin Srivastava (Working), Assessing Career Attainment via a Non-Wage Measure.
Abstract: This paper proposes a non-pecuniary measure of career achievement, seniority. Based on a database of over 150 million resumes, this metric exploits the variation in how long it takes workers to attain job titles. A person’s seniority is defined as the number of years it takes the median individual— within the same industry and firm size category—to achieve that person’s job title. Seniority aligns with standard markers of success—it is positively correlated with both wages and educational attainment. To demonstrate its value as a measure of career progression, we show that individuals with higher seniority levels in the public sector are more likely to transition to higher-paying positions in the private sector. When non-monetary factors influence career choice, evaluating labor market outcomes using non-wage measures, such as seniority, offers significant advantages.
Paul Gompers, Graham Blanks, and Sachin Srivastava. "Grab Returns: Riding the SPAC-tacular Highway?" Harvard Business School Case 225-043, November 2024. (Revised July 2025.)
Sachin Srivastava, Smriti Srivastava, Monika Gupta (Patent), Ensemble Classifier Based Indoor Localization System (April 2021).
Sachin Srivastava, Smriti Srivastava, Monika Gupta, Ayushi Mallick, Ashank Rudola, Aiswarya PG, Nikhilesh Prasannakumar (2018), A comparative study of PID and neuro-fuzzy based control schemes for a 6-DoF robotic arm, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 35 (5). https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-169814

Teaching

Carnegie Mellon University

Teaching Assistant, Fall 2022 — Economic Analysis (95-710), Applied Economic Analysis (90-710), Policy in the Global Economy (90-860), and Environmental Economics (73-427)
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2022 — Intermediate Microeconomics (73-230), and Probability and Statistics (70-207)
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2021 — Applied Economic Analysis (90-710), and Policy in the Global Economy (90-860)
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2020 — Introduction to Venture Finance (19-657)

Activity

Latest Research

Natee Amornsiripanitch, Paul Gompers, George Hu, Will Levinson, Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Sachin Srivastava (Work In Progress), From Field to Firm: College Sports and Early-Stage Career Choice.

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