Professor Botelho’s research interests include digital platforms and entrepreneurship, with a focus on questions related to careers, innovation, social evaluation, and strategy. In current work, he explores how factors unrelated to quality, such as gender and social influence, affect the ratings investment professionals receive. In other work, he focuses on how employer characteristics affect the likelihood that an employee becomes an entrepreneur and how an entrepreneur’s social network affects their performance. His research has appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, and London School of Economics Business Review, has been covered by various media outlets, and has been recognized by several awards.