Antoinette Schoar is a professor of economics at MIT. An expert in corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational economics, Antoinette Schoar researches venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate diversification, and governance, and capital budgeting decisions in firms. She has received the Fellowship of the George Stigler Center, '97-'99, and the ERP Doctoral Scholarship of the German Ministry of Trade, '95-'97.