Satish Nambisan is the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the

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Personal life and education

Nambisan was born in Kerala, India. He holds a PhD in business administration from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management of

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; an MBA from

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Career

Nambisan conducts research in the areas of innovation management, technological entrepreneurship, technology strategy, and social innovation. His articles have appeared in several management journals including

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, Organization Science, and

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. Nambisan is the author of "The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World", which applies the concept of

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to management and focuses on global innovation networks. An article based on this book appeared in Harvard Business Review. Nambisan (along with Mohanbir Sawhney of Northwestern University) coined the term ''Innovation capitalist'' to describe a new type of innovation intermediary. He is also credited with introducing the concept of Virtual customer environment that describes Web-based forums for customer co-innovation and value co-creation. His publications on this topic has appeared in several academic journals such as Academy of Management Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Organization Science Nambisan, S. and R. Baron. �
Different roles, different strokes: Organizing virtual customer environments to promote two types of customer contributions
” Organization Science 21(2), 2010, 554-572. Prior to joining CWRU, he was Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Management at the Lubar School of Management,

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and Professor of Technology Management & Strategy at the Lally School of Management,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nambisan, Satish Living people University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty American management consultants 1965 births Martin J. Whitman School of Management alumni XLRI – Xavier School of Management alumni