Kristina McElheran
Bio
Kristina’s research centres on the use of information technology and data by firms, with an emphasis on strategy, organizational design, and process innovation. Her current focus is on data-driven decision making and how firms and individuals can use data to improve their performance. She is also actively investigating the economic and strategic impacts of Cloud Computing.
Kristina’s experience includes six years on faculty at the Harvard Business School. She is a Faculty Affiliate at UofT’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society; Digital Fellow at the Digital Economy Lab, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI; Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School on AI, Robotics, and the Future of Work; Fellow at Boston University’s Technology and Policy Research Initiative; and Digital Fellow at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. She divides her time between Rotman and the University of Toronto, Scarborough, where she teaches strategic management. Prior to her academic career, Kristina worked for two early-stage technology ventures in Silicon Valley. She currently serves as a Lab Economist at the Creative Destruction Lab, one of Toronto’s premier seed-stage programs for technology startups.
Academic Positions
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2014–
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
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2020–
Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto
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2020–
Digital Fellow, Digital Economy Lab, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
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2018–
Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program
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2018–
Fellow, Boston University Technology & Policy Research Initiative
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2013–
Digital Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
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2008–2014
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Selected Publications - Papers
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with Erling Barth, James C. Davis, Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 28094
2020
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with Erik Brynjolfsson
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings
Issue:106 (5)
2016
Pages: 133-139
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McElheran, K.
Management Science (Lead Article)
Issue:6
2015
Pages: 1197-1216
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McElheran, K.
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (Lead Article)
Issue:2
2014
Pages: 225-257
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McElheran, K.
Communications of the ACM
Issue:11
2012
Pages: 28-30
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
Featured Work
Kristina’s work has been featured in Management Science, American Economic Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Rotman Magazine, and Communications of the ACM.
Research and Teaching Interests
Innovation and technological change, digital transformation, information technology, corporate strategy, managerial decision-making, organizational economics
Honors and Awards
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2020
Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Paper Award, National Association for Business Economics
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2019
Best Paper (Honourable Mention), Strategic Management Society Annual Conference
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2019
Kauffman Foundation Grant, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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2018
Two Kauffman Knowledge Challenge Grants, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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2018
Digitization Working Group Research Grant, National Bureau of Economic Research
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2017
Insight Development Grant, SSHRC
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2017
Insight Grant, SSHRC
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2016
Entrepreneurship Working Group Research Grant, National Bureau of Economic Research
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2016
Institutional Grant, SSHRC
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2015
Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto
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2014
Finalist, Oliver E. Williamson Best Conference Paper Award, ISNIE
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2013
Research Grant, Israel-US Binanational Science Foundation
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2008
Finalist, Best Student Paper, Academy of Management, TIM Division
Academic / Professional Service
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2016 - present
Lab Economist, Creative Destruction Lab