Riitta Katila Assistant Professor Management Science and Engineering Office: Terman 413 | Phone: 650-725-1632 | Fax: 650-723-1614 Email: rkatila @ stanford.edu

Biography  

Riitta Katila is an Assistant Professor of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, and a faculty member at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Her research focuses on technology strategy and organizational evolution. Her work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy and other outlets. She was the recipient of the Best Dissertation Award from the TIM division of the Academy of Management, the INFORMS Technology Management Best Dissertation Award, and the Best Symposium Award by the OMT Division of the Academy of Management. She serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellow (2007-2009), and was selected as the Strategic Management Society’s Emerging Scholar of the Year in 2008.

Professor Katila's current research (supported by the National Science Foundation) examines how firms create new products, from the perspectives of evolutionary and learning theories. Focusing on the industrial robotics industry, she investigates how different search approaches, such as the exploitation of existing knowledge and the exploration for new knowledge, influence the kinds of new products that robotics firms introduce.