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Email anand_nandkumar@isb.edu
Anand Nandkumar is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Executive Director for SRITNE at ISB, and Associate Dean - Centre for Learning and Teaching Excellence. He explores industry and firm level phenomena that influence innovation – the generation of new ideas and entrepreneurship – distribution and commercialization of new ideas. His research focuses on high technology industries such as pharmaceuticals, bio-technology and software, and it falls in between industrial organisation (IO), economics of technological change and strategy. Professor Nandkumar current work in the innovation stream examines the effect of stronger IPR on different aspects of innovation such as the influence of stronger patents on long run incentives for innovation or the influence of stronger patents on the functioning of Markets for Technology (MFT). In the entrepreneurship stream, his current work examines the influence of venture capitalists on entrepreneurial performance.
Professor Nandkumar graduated with a PhD in Public Policy and Management, with a focus in strategy and entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Prior to his PhD, he worked for about 3 years with a startup in the Silicon Valley and prior to that in New York City with one of the world’s largest financial services firm. True to his expertise, at the ISB, Professor Nandkumar teaches Strategic Innovation Management and Strategic Challenges for Innovation based startups.
December 10, 2019: Why should there be Googles, when we celebrate Infosys?, .
April , 2018: Bringing together scientific research and commercial activity under one roof, The Economic Times.
March , 2014: Will the Ranbaxy imbroglio hurt brand India, Business Standard.
April , 2013: The new patent law, policy and strategy, Express Pharma.
April , 2013: A poorer big pharma, Business Today.
October , 2011: Was the TRIP worthwhile?, Forbes India.
Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand., nandkumar, A., Kale, P. (2020) "How Firms Build Isolating Mechanisms for Knowledge: A Study in Offshore Research and Development Captives", Strategy Science , 5 (2), 98-116 Bharadwaj, Anandhi., Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand. (2018) "When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them", Harvard Business Review Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand., Sharma, Vasundhara. (2017) "Clusterpreneurship: Do Entrepreneurs Create and Sustain Clusters?", ISB insight Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand. (2016) "THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACTS OF MARKETS FOR TECHNOLOGY ON THE VALUE OF TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES: AN APPLICATION OF GROUP-BASED TRAJECTORY MODELS", Strategic Management Journal , 37 (1), 192-205 Nandkumar, Anand., Srikanth, Kannan. (2016) "Right person in the right place: How the host country IPR influences the distribution of inventors in offshore R&D projects of multinational enterprises", Strategic Management Journal , 37 (8), 1715 - 1733 Mani, Deepa., Anand, Mridula., Nandkumar, Anand. (2016) "Technological Innovation in India: Negotiating the Patent Ecosystem", ISB insight Nandkumar, Anand., Ashish Arora. (2012) "Insecure Advantage? Markets for Technology and the Value of Resources for Entrepreneurial Ventures", Strategic Management Journal , 33 (3), 231-251 Nandkumar, Anand., Ashish Arora. (2011) "Cash-out or flameout! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: theory, and evidence from the information security industry", Management Science , 57 (10), 1844–1860 Nandkumar, Anand., Arora, Ashish., Forman, Chris., Telang, Rahul. (2010) "Competition and Patching of Security Vulnerabilities: An Empirical Analysis", Information Economics and Policy , 22 (2), 164-177 Nandkumar, Anand., Arora, Ashish., Telang, Rahul. (2006) "Does information security attack frequency increase with vulnerability disclosure? An empirical analysis", Information Systems Frontier , 8 (5), 350-362
Nandkumar, Anand., Kannan, Srikanth., Kleiner, Samuel., Tadikonda, Dutt Dev Harsha. (2018) "Impact of experience heterogeneity on individual learning curves", Academy of Management , 2013 (1) Nandkumar, Anand. (2018) "How the Strength of Patents Influence Firm Strategies and Competition?", Academy of Management , 2012 (1) Anand, Mridula., Nandkumar, Anand. (2018) "Walking the Talk: How Do Differences between De Facto and De Jure IPR Influence Firm Strategies?", Academy of Management , 2013 (1) Nandkumar, Anand., Mani, Deepa., Bharadwaj, Anandhi. (2018) "Market Returns to Digital Innovations: A Group Based Trajectory Approach", Academy of Management , 2018 (1) Nandkumar, Anand., Kannan, Srikanth., Tadikonda, Dutt Dev Harsha. (2017) "Impact of Heterogeneity in Task Environments on Individual Learning Curves", Academy of Management , 2016 (1) Nandkumar, Anand. (2017) "Heads you Win Tails I lose: The Influence of Patent Strength on Downstream Entry", Academy of Management , 2015 (1) Nandkumar, Anand., Tadikonda, Dutt Dev Harsha. (2017) "Attentional Attributions of Deservingness: The case of Resource Allocation to Academic Scientists", Academy of Managemnet , 2014 (1) Nandkumar, Anand. (2017) "Patently different? The influence of offshore patent strength on the nature of R&D offshoring", Academy of Management , 2015 (1) Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand., Srikanth, Kannan., Kale, Prashant. (2015) "The Role of Organizational Mechanisms in Preventing Leakage of Unpatented Knowledge", Academy of Management Proceedings , 2015 (1) Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand. "Use of Group-Based Trajectory Models to Assess the Impact of Heterogeneously Distributed Firm Capabilities:The Case of Innovation", Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce , 39
Nandkumar, Anand., Anand, Mridula. (2015) "Patents and Competitive Dynamics in the Indian Pharma Industry", Harvard-ISB Mridula Anand., Nandkumar, Anand., Charles Dhanaraj. (2013) "Embrace (A): Opportunity Identification", , 7pages, 6pages, 5 pages and 6 pages Mridula Anand., Nandkumar, Anand., Charles Dhanaraj. (2013) "Novartis in India: Innovation versus Affordability - Case Study#9B12M111", , 13 pages Nandkumar, Anand., Charles Dhanaraj., Nita Sachan. (2011) "Oral Insulin: Breakthrough Innovation at Biocon - Case#9B11MO65", , 18 pages Nandkumar, Anand., Nita Sachan., Charles Dhanaraj. (2011) "Center for Cellular and molecular Biology: The Commercialization challenge-Case Study # 9B11MO64", , 17pages
Nandkumar, Anand., Choudhury, Arnab., Jandhyala, Srividya. "Economic nationalism and the home court advantage" Nandkumar, Anand., Mogra, Ronak., Viswanathan, Madhu. "The effect of market-price based control on drug prices" Nandkumar, Anand., Tandon, Vivek., Mogra, Ronak. "Gains from specialization in multi-unit R&D organization: Influence of knowledge overlap, internal competition and hierarchy" Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand., Bharadwaj, Anandhi. "Do Strong Intellectual Property Rights Impact Innovation and Economic Growth in Developing Economies? Evidence from India" Nandkumar, Anand., Mani, Deepa., Saharsh Agarwal. "The Growing Dominance of ICT Inventors in Production of Impactful Knowledge" Bharadwaj, Anandhi., Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand. "Stock Market Expectations and Incumbents' Response To Radical Technological Change: Evidence From The Adoption of Digital Innovations" Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand., Sharma V. "Privatization of Technical Education and Industrial Activity in India" Nandkumar, Anand., Srikanth, Kannan., Chandrasekaran, Aravind. "Learning from High Work-Load Environments: An Empirical Study of Learning by Doing in Service Call Centers" Kumar, Sumeet., Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand. "Gender Disparities in Review Outcomes of Patents for Women-Oriented Occupations" Mani, Deepa., Nandkumar, Anand., Sharma, V. "Is Bengaluru a Chip Off the Old Detroit Bloc? An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration and Performance of Internet Startups in India" Nandkumar, Anand., Dutta, Shantanu., Viswanathan, Madhu., Choudhury, Arnab. "Change in Patent Regime And The Role of Branded and Generic Drugs On Price and Quantity: Evidence from the Indian pharmaceutical industry 1995-2009"