Faculty Directory | Deepak Hegde

Deepak Hegde is the Seymour Milstein Professor of Strategy at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is founder and Andrew Hamilton Director of the Endless Frontier Labs, a program designed to transform scientific breakthroughs into high-growth businesses.

Professor Hegde’s research studies how entrepreneurs and innovators commercialize their ideas. His work focuses on science and technology intensive industries and has been published in journals such as Science, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Management Science, and Review of Financial Studies. His work has also been featured in outlets such as Nature, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal. Professor Hegde teaches MBA courses on Entrepreneurship, Competitive Strategy and Corporate Strategy, and coordinates a PhD seminar on innovation.

Professor Hegde’s research has won numerous awards, including the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes faculty making significant contributions to the field of entrepreneurship, and the Thomas Alva Edison Fellowship, awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has been recognized with the Faculty Leadership award for exceptional leadership through service, and Distinguished Teacher award for pedagogical innovation at NYU Stern and the Academy of Management for founding the Endless Frontier Labs. He was named one of the world’s best 40 under 40 business school professors by Poets & Quants. Professor Hegde is recipient of NYU's Distinguished Teacher Award, given to select faculty across the University who demonstrate extraordinary commitment to, and innovation in, teaching and learning.

Prior to joining Stern in 2010, he worked at Bosch, a large technology-based German company, and Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm for the U.S. government and business sectors. Originally trained as an engineer, Professor Hegde earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.