The Lally School of Management & Technology

Areas: Entrepreneurship; Organizational Behavior

Areas of Instruction: Innovation; commercialization of emerging technology; emotional underpinning of innovation and entrepreneurship; international business - global studies of innovation; national innovation systems; and globalization of R&D, science and technology policy.

Education

• Ph.D., New York University
• B.S. Cum Laude, Washington Square University College

Research & Publications

• Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation, Jossey-Bass, 2008 (with G. O’Connor, A. Paulson and R. Leifer)
• "Outsourcing a Core Competency," Research Technology Management, 2007 (with Shreefal Mehta)
• "Rejoinder to Establishing an NPD Best Practices Framework," Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2006
• "The Role of Incubators in the Entrepreneurial Process," Journal of Technology Transfer, 2004 (with M. Rice and M. Sundararajan)
• "Acquisition of Resources for Commercializing Emerging Technologies: Comparing Large Firms with Startups," PICMET ’03, 2003 (with M. Sundararajan)
• "Managing Interdisciplinary, Longitudinal Research on Radical Innovation: Methods for the Study of Complex Phenomena," Organization Science, 2003 (with G. Colarelli O’Connor, M.P. Rice, and R.W. Veryzer)
• "Intra-Organizational Networking for Innovation-Based Corporate Entrepreneurship," submitted , Journal of Business Venturing,2008 (with D. Kelly and G. Colarelli O’Connor)
• "Drivers of Growth for Firms in Different Sub-sectors of the Nanotechnology Industry: Implications for R&D Management," working paper, 2007 (with M. Sundararajan)
• "Role of Emotions in the Entrepreneur’s Opportunity Recognition Process," working paper, presented at AOM, August 2007, (with M. Sundararajan)
• "Corporate Transformation Through Radical Innovation," working paper, 2007
• "Corporate Growth and Renewal through Radical Innovation," working paper, 2006
• "A Dynamic Capability Model for Radical Innovation, working paper," 2006 (with G. Colarelli O’Connor)
• "Impact of Sub-Sector Differences & R&D Intensities on Nanotech Firms' Growth-Size Relationships," working paper, 2005, (with Malavika Sundararajan)

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