Associate Professor
Entrepreneurship & Innovation | Management of Organizations

Researcher focused on AI, innovation, entrepreneurship and the digital economy

About

Abhishek Nagaraj is an associate professor in the Management and Organizations (MORS) and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation group at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the director of the Data Innovation and AI Lab (DIAL). He earned his PhD in Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management (TIES) group. Nagaraj also holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta and a B.Tech in Computer Science from the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP).

Professor Nagaraj’s research is in the area of innovation economics, entrepreneurship and technology management. His research studies the power and limits of big data and AI tools on shaping firm performance and social outcomes. His work shows how these tools can act as a map to guide better decisions, but could also distort performance.

Nagaraj’s work has received a number of awards including the BPS Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award, the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Best Dissertation Award, the J. Roberts Beyster Fellowship, as well as the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. In addition to his teaching, Nagaraj teaches Entrepreneurial Strategy and enjoys advising early-stage startups on go-to-market strategy and large firms in creating and guiding their data and innovation strategy.

Expertise and Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Big Data and the Digital Economy
  • Copyright and Intellectual Property
  • Open Innovation