Anand Nandkumar
Anand Nandkumar
Associate Professor, Strategy
Executive Director - Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy (SRITNE)
Associate Dean - Centre for Learning and Teaching Excellence (CLTE)
Executive Director - Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy (SRITNE)
Associate Dean - Centre for Learning and Teaching Excellence (CLTE)
Biography
Anand Nandkumar is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Executive Director of SRITNE at the Indian School of Business (ISB), and Associate Dean of the 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 commercialisation of new ideas. His research focuses on high-technology industries such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and software, and it falls in between industrial organisation (IO), economics of technological change, and strategy.
Professor Nandkumar’s current work in the innovation stream examines the effect of stronger intellectual property rights (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 3 years with a startup in Silicon Valley, and prior to that, in New York City with one of the world’s largest financial services firms.
True to his expertise, at ISB, Professor Nandkumar teaches Strategic Innovation Management and Strategic Challenges for Innovation-based startups.
Education
- PhD in Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
- Master of Philosophy in Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
- MS in Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998
- Certified Public Accountant, ICAI, 1995
- Bachelors in Commerce, Loyola College, 1991
Experience
Academic positions
- 2024 - Present: Associate Dean, Centre for Teaching and Learning Effectiveness, Indian School of Business
- 2021 - Present: Executive Director - SRITNE, Indian School of Business
- 2016 - Present: Associate Professor, Indian School of Business
- 2019 - 2020: Associate Dean – RCI and Grants Management, Indian School of Business
- 2018 - 2020: Research Director-CIE, Indian School of Business
- 2016 - 2018: Associate Professor of Management, ESSEC Business School Asia Pacific Campus,Singapore
- 2008 - 2016: Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business
Professional Positions
- 2009 - 2011: Advisor, Nrelate, Inc.
- 2001 - 2002: Product Manager, Vergil Technologies Pvt. Ltd. San Mateo, California
- 2000 - 2001: Senior Consultant, Banking and Financial Services E-commerce, SIFY
- 1998 - 2000: IT Associate, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, New York
Selected publications
- Nandkumar, Anand., Tandon, Vivek., Mogra, Ronak., Srikanth, Kannan. (2024) "Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization.", Strategic Management Journal
- Nandkumar, Anand., Choudhury, Arnab., Jandhyala, Srividya. (2024) "Economic nationalism and the home court advantage", Strategic Management Journal, 2021 (1)
- 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
- 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
- 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., 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. (2018) "How the Strength of Patents Influence Firm Strategies and Competition?", Academy of Management, 2012 (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., Kleiner, Samuel., Tadikonda, Dutt Dev Harsha. (2018) "Impact of experience heterogeneity on individual learning curves", Academy of Management, 2013 (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., 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) "Heads you Win Tails I lose: The Influence of Patent Strength on Downstream Entry", Academy of Management, 2015 (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) "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., Kumar, Jai., Mohapatra, Sushreeta. "DABBAWALAS: MASTERS OF PRECISION BUT ENOUGH TO SURVIVE?", ISB
- Nandkumar, Anand., Anand, Mridula. (2015) "Patents and Competitive Dynamics in the Indian Pharma Industry", Harvard-ISB
- Mridula Anand., Nandkumar, Anand., Charles Dhanaraj. (2013) "Novartis in India: Innovation versus Affordability - Case Study#9B12M111", 13 pages
- Mridula Anand., Nandkumar, Anand., Charles Dhanaraj. (2013) "Embrace (A): Opportunity Identification", 7pages, 6pages, 5 pages and 6 pages
- Nandkumar, Anand., Nita Sachan., Charles Dhanaraj. (2011) "Center for Cellular and molecular Biology: The Commercialization challenge-Case Study # 9B11MO64", 17pages
- Nandkumar, Anand., Charles Dhanaraj., Nita Sachan. (2011) "Oral Insulin: Breakthrough Innovation at Biocon - Case#9B11MO65", 18 pages
In the press
- 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: A poorer big pharma, Business Today.
- April , 2013: The new patent law, policy and strategy, Express Pharma.
- October , 2011: Was the TRIP worthwhile?, Forbes India.
