Anand Nandkumar
Assistant Professor of Strategy

Anand Nandkumar, Assistant Professor, Strategy, at the Indian School of Business (ISB), has recently won the prestigious ‘2009 William W Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award’ from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). This is an annual award (typically one or none) given to a dissertation which in the committee’s opinion, is the best in Management Science to come out of CMU in an academic year. The Award Committee, consisting of two faculty members each from Tepper School of Business and Heinz School of Public Policy and Management Studies, selected two winners this year.

Professor Nandkumar’s dissertation, ‘Securing their future? The role of markets for technology, organisation capabilities and opportunity costs on business model and performance in the information security market,’ was approved by Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. The dissertation was based on a hand collected data set of the US information security startups, put together over a period of three years.

Professor Nandkumar’s areas of research interest span entrepreneurship, innovation and economics of technological change. Talking about the research advantage at the ISB, he said, “The ISB is very serious about research and it has been extremely supportive of my research. One of the key components of research is exchange of knowledge and ideas. The presence of a very energetic and knowledgeable set of peers, as well as the access to visiting faculty, many of whom are very established researchers, is a great platform to accomplish something meaningful."