Faculty Directory | Natalia Levina

Natalia Levina has received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is a Full Chair Professor at New York University Stern School of Business. She focuses on how people span organizational, professional, cultural, and other boundaries while producing and using technological innovations. Currently, she studies the evaluation and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medicine and HR, open innovation, theories of smart contracts, and firm-community relationships in crowdsourcing. Prof. Levina is an innovative teacher who has developed a unique course on “Digital Innovation & Crowdsourcing,” which has been receiving stellar evaluations in undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA programs. She has been nominated for the Best Professor Award by NYU Stern’s EMBA students. She is a frequent speaker on these topics in academic and industry conferences. Her research has been published in top journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Decision Sciences Journal, and Harvard Business Review, among others. She has received the Best Published Paper of 2021 and of 2015 Awards in the field of Information Systems, Best Published Paper of 2015 award from the Academy of Management Research Methods Division, Best Published Paper of 2014 award from the Academy of Management OCIS Division, numerous best conference paper awards, and two Ph.D. dissertation awards. Prof. Levina has previously served as a Senior Editor at Information Systems Research, as a board member of Organization Science journal, and is currently an editorial board member of Information & Organizations. She has served as a program co-chair for the 2016 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and the conference chair for the Collective Intelligence Conference (2016). She has co-founded and chaired AIS Special Interest Group (SIG) on the Grounded Theory Method from 2016-2020. Prof. Levina was awarded numerous research grants, including Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship, the IBM Shared University Research Award, and the National Science Foundation VOSS Research Grant. She was a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge (UK), the U. of Hawaii, and the University of California Santa Barbara. She has an ongoing appointment as a Research Environment Professor at the Warwick Business School at the U. of Warwick (UK). In 2022, Prof. Levina became a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems..