Anand Nandkumar

• Academic Director, Executive and Professional Education

PhD, Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Master’s in Information Systems in Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University

• Microeconomics
• Competitive Strategy
• Technology Strategy and Entrepreneurship

• Intellectual property rights
• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Organizational design
• Markets for technology
• Organizational political ideology
• AI and machine learning
  

Nandkumar, A., Tandon, V., Mogra, R., Srikanth, K. (2024). Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization. Strategic Management Journal. 

Nandkumar, A., Choudhury, A., Jandhyala, S. (2024). Economic nationalism and the home court advantage. Strategic Management Journal, 2021(1). 

Mani, D., Nandkumar, A., Nandkumar, A., Kale, P. (2020). How Firms Build Isolating Mechanisms for Knowledge: A Study in Offshore Research and Development Captives. Strategy Science, 5(2), 98-116. 

Bharadwaj, A., Mani, D., Nandkumar, A. (2018). When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them. Harvard Business Review.

Nandkumar, A., Srikanth, K. (2016). Right person in the right place: How the host country IPR influences the distribution of inventors in offshore R&D projects of multinational enterprises. Strategic Management Journal, 37(8), 1715 - 1733. 

Mani, D., Nandkumar, A. (2016). The Differential Impacts of Markets for Technology on The Value Of Technological Resources: An Application of Group-Based Trajectory Models. Strategic Management Journal, 37(1), 192-205.

Nandkumar, A., Ashish Arora (2012). Insecure Advantage?  Markets for Technology and the Value of Resources for Entrepreneurial Ventures. Strategic Management Journal, 33(3), 231-251. 

Nandkumar, A., Ashish Arora (2011). Cash-out or flameout! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: theory, and evidence from the information security industry. Management Science, 57(10), 1844–1860. 

• Empowering women through the gig economy,” Swiggy 2025
• AI and strategy research consortium,” Microsoft 2019-20.
• “Using individual career histories to understand the causes and consequences of employee mobility,” SRITNE, Indian School of Business, 2019-20.
• “Angels and Crowds: Expanding Entrepreneurial Finance through Equity Crowdfunding,” SRITNE, Indian School of Business 2017-18
• EY-ISB emerging market studies research grant for “Exploring the effects of IPR in an ‘open’ economy,” 2014-15
• Biocon faculty fellow, Center for Leadership, Innovation, and Change, 2010-12

• Academy of Management
• Strategic Management Society

• Editorial Review Board, Strategic Management Journal, 2011-24
• Ad-hoc Reviewing
  • Academy of Management Journal
  • American Economic Review
  • Management Science
  • Organization Science
  • Research Policy
  • Industry and Corporate Change
  • Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • Management Information Systems Quarterly
  • Information Systems Research
  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • Research Committee, STR division, Academy of Management

Associate Editor – Journal of Product Innovation Management

• Nandkumar, A., Kumar, J., Mohapatra, S. aha Entertainment: Disrupting the Disruptor
• Nandkumar, A., Anand, M., Kumar, J. The Hindu: Will the Newspaper Itself Become News
• Nandkumar, A., Anand, M., Kumar, J. Ashok Leyland: Managing the Transition to Electric Vehicles
• Nandkumar, A., Anand, M., Kumar, J., Mohapatra, S. Dabbawalas: Masters Of Precision But Enough To Survive?
• Nandkumar, A. (2019). Economic Survey, Government of India.
• Nandkumar, A., Anand, M. (2015). Patents and Competitive Dynamics in the Indian Pharma Industry.
• Anand, M., Nandkumar, A., Charles Dhanaraj (2013). Novartis in India: Innovation versus Affordability
• Anand, M., Nandkumar, A., Charles Dhanaraj (2013). Embrace caselets (Winner, EFMD case competition, 2013).
• Nandkumar, A., Nita Sachan, Charles Dhanaraj (2011). Center for Cellular and molecular Biology: The Commercialization challenge.
• Nandkumar, A., Charles Dhanaraj, Nita Sachan (2011). Oral Insulin: Breakthrough Innovation at Biocon

• AI in Strategy: Transforming Business Decisions
• AI’s Closing Window: A Race to Be a GPT
• Inside India’s Blue-Collar Gig Economy)
• Oceans of Innovation (in progress)
• Digitization and India’s film Industry: the bargain power conundrum (in progress)

• AI and Business transformation, 2019-20
• Global Business in a Networked Economy, Stockholm School of Economics 2018-19 
• Innovation and alliances, Novartis 2018

• Leadership with AI (2021-present; 3000+ participants over the past four years)
• Chief Digital and AI Officer (2022-present; 1000+ participants over the past four years)
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Programme (2023-present; 300+ participants over the past three years)