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," examines how departing leaders implicate their organizations’ reputations following misconduct, what I term key-man reputational risk. I argue that this reputational spillover endures after succession, and that its magnitude depends on whether organizations pair symbolic with substantive remediation.

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