Erin L. Scott is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her work focuses on uncertainty and strategic development in early-stage ventures. At MIT Sloan, she teaches Entrepreneurial Founding & Teams (MBA), Entrepreneurial Strategy (EMBA/Sloan Fellows), as well as assorted MBA and Sloan Fellows innovation and strategy courses. She also mentors MIT startups and consults for ventures within the broader ecosystem. Scott holds a holds a BE and an MBA-MS in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis, respectively. A recipient of the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, she earned her PhD in strategy from Washington University in St. Louis. Scott then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy Group. She began her academic career at the National University of Singapore.