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Melissa A. Schilling

  • Herzog Family Professor of Management
  • Professor of Management & Organizations
  • Deputy Chair of the Management & Organizations Department
  • Director, Fubon Center Tech Innovation Initiative

Joined Stern 2001

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Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Tisch Hall

40 West Fourth Street, 716

New York, NY 10012

About Melissa A. Schilling

Melissa A. Schilling is the Herzog Family Professor of Management at New York University Stern School of Business. She serves as Deputy Department Chair of the Management & Organizations Department, and Director of the Innovation Initiative at the NYU Stern Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation. She received her Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in strategic management from the University of Washington. Professor Schilling’s research focuses on innovation and strategy in high technology industries such as smartphones, video games, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electric vehicles, and renewable energies. She is particularly interested in platform dynamics, networks, creativity, and breakthrough innovation. Her textbook, Strategic Management of Technological Innovation (now in its seventh edition), is the number one innovation strategy text in the world. She is also coauthor of Strategic Management: An integrated approach (now in its fourteenth edition).

Her research in innovation and strategy has earned her awards such as the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the Best Paper in Management Science and Organization Science for 2007 Award, the 2022 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management, and the 2018 Leadership in Technology Management award at PICMET. Her research has also appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and Research Policy. She also sits on the editorial review boards of numerous journals and is a senior editor at Strategy Science. Professor Schilling teaches courses in technology and innovation management, strategic management, corporate strategy, and strategy for social-mission-based organizations.

Teaching Resources

Innovation Strategy

Innovation, sources of individual creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3jKzYnzC6c&t

Platform Ecosystems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFSRq-NYTY&t

Network Externalities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIp7TR2R4gg&t

Choosing New Projects: https://youtu.be/0QOdd45aZ1o

Collaboration types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlJJhPJHs0&t

Collaboration partners and governance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHULUlCYOUQ

Deployment Strategies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3jMEkXPmz8&rel=0

Strategic Management

Ratios Made Easy: https://youtu.be/WJsSgT_on6s

Vertical Integration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVyPNy-pZS0&t

Agency Problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKplaCgZFMs&t

Value chains and VRIO Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpb1fxt9YfU&t

Network Externalities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIp7TR2R4gg&t

Platform Ecosystems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFSRq-NYTY&t

Leveraging Technology into New Markets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15DCeacHq5M

Collaboration types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlJJhPJHs0&t

Collaboration partners and governance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHULUlCYOUQ

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