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# Research — Jane Wu

## Peer-Reviewed Publications

### A Familiar Face: Measuring Visual Similarity in Venture Capital

By Jane Wu.
2026. *Strategy Science*, forthcoming.
Paper: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/stsc.2025.0490
Summary: https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/that-silicon-valley-founder-reminds-me-of-his-vc/

### Measurement for Dummies? Exploring the Role of Regulatory Metrics and Firm Strategy

By Jane Wu.
2025. *Management Science*, forthcoming.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.01987
Summary: https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/in-car-safety-why-some-companies-merely-meet-a-standard-and-others-exceed-it/

### Foundations of Entrepreneurial Strategy

By Joshua Gans, Scott Stern and Jane Wu.
2019. *Strategic Management Journal*, 40(5): 736–756.
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smj.3010?af=R

## Working Papers

### Reversing the Herd: Binding Caps and the Direction of Innovation

By Jane Wu.
R&R.
Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6873962

### Measuring the Frontier: How Figures of Merit Shape Innovation

By Jane Wu.

### Selling Science: The Role of Framing in the Market for Innovative Ideas

By Jane Wu and Melody Chang.

### Some Simple Economics of AGI

By Christian Catalini, Xiang Hui and Jane Wu.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946