Tristan L. Botelho

Tristan L. Botelho is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management. His research explores how evaluation processes influence opportunities in organizations and markets, focusing on hiring, startup funding, and worker ratings. His work bridges stratification, careers, entrepreneurship, and the future of work, utilizing rigorous methods such as detailed data, administrative data, and field experiments. Botelho’s research has been published in top journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, and Nature, and has been recognized with multiple awards. He is also featured in major media outlets and has been named to the Thinkers50 Radar list of up-and-coming thinkers in management.

Tristan L. Botelho's research explores the intersections of careers, entrepreneurship, evaluations, inequality, and status. His work investigates how evaluation processes, particularly in entrepreneurship and organizational settings, shape gender and racial disparities. Botelho examines how search costs, uncertainty, and status influence evaluative outcomes, often through experimental and field studies. His research also addresses how customer ratings and platform dynamics can amplify discrimination, as well as how evaluative stigma affects career trajectories. By analyzing the mechanisms behind inequality in evaluations, Botelho contributes to understanding the broader sociological and economic implications of recognition and bias in professional contexts.