Satish Nambisan Ø Researcher, Thought-leader, Advisor, & Speaker

Satish Nambisan, PhD is a widely-recognized researcher and thought-leader in the broad area of technology & innovation management. Over the past ten years or so, he has conducted research on several important issues relating to product development, technology strategy, innovation networks, and information technology. Through his articles in premier management journals such as Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Stanford Social Innovation Review he continues to influence both research and practice in the above areas. His new book The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World was published by the Wharton School Publishing in November 2007.  His research has been supported by grants from several institutions and centers including the IBM Center for the Business of Government, NSF-affiliated Center for Innovation Management Studies, Snyder Center for Innovation Management, and the National University of Singapore. He was selected as an Ernst & Young Fellow in 1996. Dr. Nambisan speaks, consults, and conducts executive education both domestically and internationally in the areas of innovation management, technology management, software development, and product development. His clients include Microsoft, IBM, 3M, P&G, SAP, and Singapore Telecom. He is an associate professor of technology management & strategy at the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During the year 2005-2006 he was a Visiting Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He has also held visiting appointment at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria. He obtained his Ph.D. in Management from the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University and his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. Prior to joining the academia, Dr. Nambisan held executive positions at consumer-products giant Unilever Plc. He was recently honored by his alma mater Syracuse University with the 2006 Whitman Distinguished Alumni Award. Sample Publications Ø Nambisan, S. “Platforms for collaboration,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2009, 44-49. Ø Nambisan, S. and R. Baron. “Different roles, different strokes: Organizing virtual customer environments to promote two types of customer contributions,” Organization Science (Forthcoming). Ø Nambisan, S. and P. Nambisan. “How to Profit from a Better Virtual Customer Environment,” MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring 2008. Ø Nambisan, S. and M. Sawhney. “A Buyer’s Guide to the Innovation Bazaar,” Harvard Business Review, June 2007.  Ø Nambisan, S. and M. Sawhney. “Meet the Innovation Capitalist,” Harvard Business Review, March 2007.  Ø Nambisan, S. "Designing virtual customer environments for new product development: Toward a theory," Academy of Management Review, 27(3), 392-413. Ø Nambisan, S. "Complementary product integration by high technology new ventures: The role of initial technology strategy," Management Science, 48(3), 382-398. Ø Nambisan, S. "Why service businesses are not product businesses," MIT Sloan Management Review, 42(4), 72-80.

Contact: Email: nambis@rpi.edu Tel: (518) 276-2230 My Blog: nambisan.typepad.com Books: The Global Brain (Wharton School Publishing) Buy Now! Visit the Book Web Site: www.theglobalbrain.net More information about me and my work