Natarajan Balasubramanian

Professor of Management, Albert & Betty Hill Endowed Professor
Natarajan
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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.
Ph.D., Management, University of California, Los Angeles
Strategic Management, Firm Performance, Technological Change, Industry Evolution
Employee entrepreneurship, innovation, learning, productivity and industry competition

Publications

  • Jan 01, 2024

    Received - Outstanding Reviewer

    Academy of Management Review
  • Jan 01, 2021

    Whitman Research Fellow

    Whitman School of Management
  • May 01, 2018

    Edward Pettinella Associate Professorship of Business

    Whitman School of Management
  • Sep 01, 2016

    Guttag Faculty Fellow

    Whitman School of Management
  • Aug 01, 2016

    Distinguished Paper Award

    BPS Division, Academy of Management
  • Jan 01, 2014

    Whitman Research Fellow

    Whitman School of Management
  • Jan 01, 2013

    Guttag Junior Faculty Award

    Whitman School of Management
  • Jan 01, 2012

    Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellow

    Entrepreneurship Research
  • Apr 01, 2008

    Best Professor

    Downtown MBA Program, Florida International University
  • Jan 01, 2008

    Received - Outstanding Dissertation Award Competition

    BPS, Academy of Management
  • Jan 01, 2008

    Finalist, Outstanding Dissertation Award Competition

    Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management
  • Jan 01, 2007

    Received - California Census Research Data Center Dissertation Fellowship

  • Jan 01, 2006

    Received - UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship

  • Jan 01, 2006

    Received - Gladys Byram Fellowship

  • What companies are getting wrong about AI.

    January 01, 2025 TechTarget

  • Most AI in hiring is just sorting. Here's how to make it strategic.

    January 01, 2025

  • How context-aware A.I. is transforming team communication.

    January 01, 2025 Observer

  • Organizations hold mountains of data. AI will unlock its value.

    January 01, 2025 Syracuse.com

  • January 01, 2023

  • Cable company’s future in New York is uncertain after ruling, experts say

    August 30, 2018 Daily Orange

  • Why signing a noncompete agreement is bad for you and the economy

    December 22, 2017 Audio Boom