I'm Emily, a PhD Candidate in Management at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. I am on the job market during the 2026-2027 academic year. I study nonmarket strategy and corporate governance.

My research examines how stakeholder responses to corporate conduct generate costs for organizations, and how organizations use corporate governance mechanisms to manage those pressures.

Empirically, I rely on quantitative methods and archival data, including natural language processing (NLP) techniques to measure social evaluations such as stakeholder affect.

My job market paper, “Key Man or Bad Apple," introduces key-man reputational risk to describe how an organization’s reputation remains tethered to a departed leader. I argue that this tie functions as an asset or liability depending on the precipitant of succession, shaping the organization’s communication and governance strategies thereafter.

You can reach me at emulrich@wharton.upenn.edu.