Solène Delecourt
Assistant Professor | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES
Researcher focused on inequality in business performance
Areas of Expertise (5)
Business Performance
Entrepreneurship
Discrimination
Field experiments
Management
About
Solène Delecourt is an assistant professor in the Management of Organizations Group at the Haas School of Business. She earned her PhD at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also holds a master’s degree in Economics and Public Policy from Sciences Po Paris and École Polytechnique.
Delecourt studies inequality in business performance using large-scale field experiments and novel survey data. Her research agenda focuses on what drives variation in profits across firms and how we could reduce inequality in business performance among entrepreneurs in different market settings, including India, Uganda, and the US. She has received many research grants in competitive funding. Her work has appeared in the Strategic Management Journal and Management Science and has been covered by news outlets such as the Wall Street Journal.
Education (4)
Stanford Graduate School of Business: PhD, Business Administration
Sciences Po Paris and Ecole Polytechnique: MS, Economics and Public Policy
Sciences Po: BA, Economics and Political Science
University of Nancy II: BA, Economics and Law
Links (2)
Languages (1)
- French
Positions Held (1)
At Haas since 2020
2020-present, Assistant Professor, Management of Organizations Group, Haas School of Business
Media Appearances (5)
When Field Research Goes Awry
Stanford Graduate School of Business online
2019-05-29
Ng, a PhD candidate at Stanford Department of Economics, and Solène M. Delecourt, a PhD candidate at Stanford GSB, wanted to understand why female entrepreneurs make less money than their male counterparts, specifically in India. They saw several possible hypotheses: Was it the hours they worked? The industries they pursued? Or were shoppers less likely to buy from women than men?
Real Time Economics: The U.S. Housing Market Is Stuck In a Rut
Wall Street journal online
2018-07-24
Entrepreneurs with MBAs or accelerator experience did not respond to this intervention, suggesting that formal training can limit the spread of peer advice," Aaron Chatterji, Solène Delecourt, Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning write in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.
Successful startup founders share one essential leadership style
Quartz online
2017-10-18
Koning’s working paper, released in May, is titled Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem. The coauthors were Aaron Chatterji and Sharique Hasan, both of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business; and Solene M. Delecourt from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem
Harvard Business School online
2017-06-19
This study of 100 high-growth startups in India finds that founder-executives can learn how to improve their management style from their peers at other firms. These interfirm network connections between founders may help explain why some companies are well managed and others less so. Despite the apparent value of this peer learning, founders don’t appear to naturally connect with peers who could help them improve their management style.
New Research Shows 4 Unexpected Factors You Should Keep in Mind When Asking for Advice
Inc. online
Researchers Aaron Chatterji, Solène Delecourt, Sharique Hasan and Rembrand M. Koning recently published the results of a two-year study of 100 growth-stage startups in India. Their goal was to examine the conditions under which advice improves startup performance.
Working Papers (1)
The Baby Profit Gap: How childcare duties impact entrepreneurial performance
Delecourt, S. & Fitzpatrick, A. (2019)
Selected Research Grants (15)
Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2020-2021
Stanford Center for International Development
Stanford University $4,780
2018-2019 (with Odyssia Ng)
BRAC-CEGA Travel Grant, Center for Effective Global Action
UC Berkeley $5,892
2018-2019 (with Odyssia Ng)
Weiss Family Program Fund for Research in Development Economics
Harvard University $10,610
2017-2018 (with Odyssia Ng)
Global Policy Fellows Research Grant, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Stanford University $5,000
2017-2018 (with Odyssia Ng)
Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity, Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Stanford University $3,000
2017-2018 (with Odyssia Ng)
Weiss Family Program Fund for Research in Development Economics
Harvard University $28,735
2017-2018 (with Odyssia Ng)
George P. Shultz Graduate Student Fellowship in Economic Policy
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research $12,000
2017-2018 (with Odyssia Ng)
Graduate Research Opportunity, School of Humanities and Sciences
Stanford University $4,280
2017-2018 (with Odyssia Ng)
George P. Shultz Graduate Student Fellowship in Economic Policy
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research $16,150
2016-2017 (with Odyssia Ng)
Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Doctoral Fellowship, Research & Conference Travel Award, Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Stanford University $1,000
2016-2017
PhD I-Award
Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies $13,000
2016-2017
Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity, Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Stanford University $2,000
2016-2017
Global Policy Fellows Research Grant, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Stanford University $1,500
2016-2017
Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Center for South Asia
Stanford University $2,500
2016-2017
Selected Papers & Publications (2)
Childcare Matters: Female Business Owners and the Baby-Profit Gap
Management Science
Solène Delecourt and Anne Fitzpatrick
Forthcoming
When does advice impact startup performance?
Strategic Management Journal
Aaron Chatterji, Solène Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, Rembrand Koning
November 2018