Natarajan Balasubramanian

Natarajan Balasubramanian is Albert & Betty Hill Endowed Professor of Management at the Whitman School of Management. His research aims to enhance our understanding of economic value creation by new and existing firms. To this end, he typically uses large-scale data to uncover generalizable facts about how competition, innovation, and learning affect the entry and performance of firms. His research has been published in Management Science, Review of Economics & Statistics, and Strategic Management Journal. His research work also earned him the prestigious Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in 2012. He is currently an associate editor at Strategic Management Journal and reviews for many of the leading management journals. Prof. Balasubramanian teaches aspects of strategic management to undergraduate and graduate students. His teaching is built on the belief that the ability to solve unstructured problems and the ability to bring to bear quantitative analysis to decision making along with the ability to persuade a diverse audience about one's viewpoint will be increasingly critical assets for business professionals. Accordingly, he aims to foster critical discussion and thinking through his teaching, in addition to being an active learner himself. In his prior corporate life at Andersen and Infosys, he worked on business valuation, business process re-engineering, and public sector restructuring assignments.

Employee entrepreneurship, innovation, learning, productivity and industry competition