I am Assistant Professor of Strategy at IE Business School. Before joining IE in September 2022, I was a Research Associate at Imperial College Business School in London, UK.
My research interests lie at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Specifically, I seek to understand how firms design novel strategies and business models in rapidly evolving environments characterized by new technologies. This includes studies on how organizations plan and run experiments, how they learn and adapt, and how they create and capture value with innovative business models. I study these topics primarily both through a complexity lens to consider the interdependencies that underlie managerial decisions and increasingly also from a behavioral perspective to better account for the adaptive nature of organizations. My past and current projects include for example business model innovation in online firms, experimentation in NBA teams, and mission-driven strategies and capabilities in spaceflight. My research has been presented at major international conferences and accepted for publication in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.
I have taught several courses and modules at BSc, MSc, MBA, and PhD (doctoral students from other disciplines) levels in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. My classes are often interactive and frequently include case discussions, case competitions, and applications of research methods and analysis.
I hold a PhD in Management (Strategic Entrepreneurship) from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), an educational institute that is well known for its ground-breaking research, entrepreneurial mindset, and interdisciplinary studies. In addition to my time in Munich, I spent more than a year as a visiting scholar at New York University (Stern School of Business) and Singapore Management University (LKC School of Business), through which I managed to gain different perspectives on business studies and establish a global network of collaborators. Before my PhD, I studied Economics and Business Administration in Finland and Germany, after which I worked for three years in management consulting.