Riitta Katila

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BIO

Riitta Katila is an Associate Professor of Management Science & Engineering and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar at Stanford University. She is also on the faculty of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Her research is in the intersection of technology strategy and organizational innovation. She is an expert on innovation, competitive dynamics, and organic and inter-organizational growth strategies.

RESEARCH

Prof. Katila's research on product development, technology entrepreneurship, and strategy has received several international awards including the Stephan M. Schrader Award for Outstanding Research in Technology and Innovation Management, the Thought Leader Award in Entrepreneurship, the Best Symposium Award by the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, and the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. She has been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellow and the Top Strategy Scholar under 40 by the Strategic Management Society. In 2010 she was elected to the 5-year Leadership Track of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management and she is currently the Chair-Elect of the Division.

Prof. Katila's work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy and other outlets. In her most recent work, supported by the National Science Foundation, she examines how firms create new products successfully. Focusing on the robotics industry, she investigates how different search approaches, such as the exploitation of existing knowledge and the exploration for new knowledge, influence the kinds of new products that technology-intensive firms introduce. She has served on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Organization, and the Strategic Management Journal. Prior to academia, her work experience includes telecommunications operations and strategy and management consulting.

TEACHING

Prof. Katila is the recipient of the Eugene L. Grant Faculty Teaching Award. She teaches four courses: MS&E 175 Innovation Creativity and Change, MS&E 270 Strategy in Technology-Based Companies, MS&E 371 Doctoral course on Innovation and Strategic Change, and MS&E 108 Senior Project.

CV AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

To download Research Software, please see her Personal Page.

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Top Young Strategy Scholar, "Emerging Scholar of the Year", Strategic Management Society.

Industry Studies Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizing path-breaking scholarship by a young researcher.

Eugene L. Grant Faculty Teaching Award, Stanford University.

W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar, Stanford University.

Thought Leader Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management.

Best Symposium Award, Organization & Management Theory Division, Academy of Management.

Best Doctoral Dissertation, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management.

Best Doctoral Dissertation, Technology Management Section, INFORMS.

Best Dissertation Finalist, Business Policy and Strategy Free Press Award, Academy of Management.

Best Student Paper, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management.

Leadership Track, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management, 2010-2014.

Academy of Management; Strategic Management Society; Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS); Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Program, Affiliate.
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My research lies in the intersection of technology, innovation, and strategy. I study innovation strategies that enable organizations to discover, develop and commercialize technologies, with the ultimate objective of understanding what makes established technology-based firms successful at introducing innovation. To answer this question, I conduct research on two interrelated streams: (1) strategies that help firms leverage their existing resources (leverage stream), and (2) strategies through which these firms can acquire new resources (acquisition stream) to create innovation.

Please use the links below to see my publications in each stream, and to download a complete research statement.

Stream 1: Leveraging existing resources

Stream 2: Acquiring new resources

Research statement