Assistant Professor
Management of Organizations | Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Researcher focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and the digital economy
About
Abhishek Nagaraj is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations (MORS) group at Berkeley Haas. He earned his PhD in Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management (TIES) group. He 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).
Nagaraj’s research is in the area of innovation management and entrepreneurship, where he studies the role of intellectual property in digital markets, the impact of government information on the private-sector, and the design of crowdsourcing communities. He is particularly interested in the impact of maps and digital, geographic information on the economy.
His 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.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Innovation
- Crowdsourcing
- Mapping
- Entrepreneurship
- Big Data and the Digital Economy
- Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Open Innovation
- Abhishek Nagaraj and Scott Stern. The Economics of Maps. Journal of Economic Perspectives.
February 2020 - Abhishek Nagaraj, Mathijs de Vaan, Saqib Mumtaz and Sameer Srivastava. Social Inuence in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community Establishments’ Closure Decisions Follow Those of Nearby Chain Establishments. Management Science.
Forthcoming - Abhishek Nagaraj. Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap. Management Science.
Forthcoming - Abhishek Nagaraj. The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry. Management Science.
Forthcoming - Abhishek Nagaraj, Mathijs de Vaan & Esther Shears and. Improving data access democratizes and diversifies science. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.
Forthcoming - Abhishek Nagaraj, Esther Shears, and Mathijs de Vaan. Does Data Access Democratize Science?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
September, 2020 - Abhishek Nagaraj and Scott Stern. The Economics of Maps. Journal of Economic Perspectives.
February, 2020 - Abhishek Nagaraj. Does Copyright Affect Reuse? Evidence from Google Books and Wikipedia. Management Science.
July 2018 - Abhishek Nagaraj, P. Seetharaman, R.Roy, and A. Dutta. Do Wiki-pages have parents? An article-level inquiry into Wikipedia’s inequalities. Workshop on Information Technology Systems.
2009
- How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps
Abhishek Nagaraj and Henning Piezunka - Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project
Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers - Getting on the Map: The Impact of Online Listings on Business Performance
Abhishek Nagaraj, Michael Luca. and Gauri Subramani - Socioeconomic Network Heterogeneity and Pandemic Policy Response
Abhishek Nagaraj, Mohammad Akbarpour, Cody Cook, Aude Marzuoli, Simon Mongey, Matteo Saccarola, Pietro Tebaldi, Shoshana Vasserman, and Hanbin Yang
https://reopenmappingproject.com
At Haas since 2017
2017 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
2016 – 2017, Postdoctoral Fellow in Digitization, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
- English
- French
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Marathi
Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award
Behavioral and Policy Sciences (BPS), July 2017
Technology and Innovation Management (TIM Division) Outstanding Dissertation Award
July 2017
Kauffman Prize
Best Student Paper, REER 2015
Ewing Marion Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship
2014
J. Roberts Beyster Fellowship
2014
NESTA Innovation Research Grant
2014
Sloan Foundation Research Grant
2014
MIT Energy Fellowship
2012
- Haas School of Business study analyzes impact of chains businesses on local business closures, The Daily Californian, 09/07/2021
- UC Berkeley Haas School of Business launches online program for MBA students, The Daily Californian, 08/03/2021
- Mapping the Good and the Bad of Pandemic-Related Restrictions, Stanford Business Insights, 09/01/2020
- This interactive tool lets you experiment with different COVID-19 reopening strategies, Fast Company, 08/28/2020
- Most internet service providers are gone. Sonic has survived — and thrived, San Francisco Chronicle, 07/26/2019
- Like Uber, but for cartographers, CityLab, 09/19/2018
- MapLab: How satellites cracked open a gold mine, CityLab, 08/29/2018
- MapLab: Satellites on fire, CityLab, 08/15/2018
- The founder of a beloved productivity app thinks the startup model is broken — here’s how he’s trying to keep the tech industry from ‘making the same 10,000 mistakes over and over again’, Business Insider Prime (reg. req’d), 08/12/2018
- The electric scooter acid test, Moneywatch, 07/16/2018
- Google knowns what we do online and may soon know everything else about us, too, KQED California Report, 05/16/2018
- Here’s how Facebook can regain trust at its F8 conference, Fast Company, 04/27/2018
- Mark Zuckerberg grilled for two days: What’s next for Facebook?, The Mercury News, 04/11/2018
- Tech backlash: ‘Maybe Silicon Valley needs to be taken down to size’, The Mercury News, 03/19/2018
- Nearly 200 New Profs At Top B-Schools, Poets & Quants, 10/03/2017
- Entrepreneurial Strategy, MBA 295