Daniel Auguste, PhD

I am an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Entrepreneurship Division at Babson College. Prior to Babson, I was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Management (by courtesy) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and an MLK Visiting Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2022-2023. I am also a faculty affiliate at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. I earned my BA in Economics from Covenant College and my MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

My research agenda incorporates stratification theory into the study of entrepreneurship and organizations to bring new insights to questions about how the opportunity structure shapes the nature of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the strategies that founders use to launch and grow their ventures. My research has won nationally competitive awards from the Russell Sage Foundation in 2022 (20 awards made nationwide), and from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022 (5 awards made nationwide).