Nilanjana Dutt

Nilanjana Dutt is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Università Bocconi at the Department of Management and Technology.  

Her research activities focus on understanding patterns of change triggered by firm's problem-solving activities. She examined these activities across multiple contexts – renewable electricity, and waste generation, with special emphasis on contexts of environmental significance. In a more recent secondary stream of research, she explores phenomena that capture nascent entrepreneurial activities, both in emerging and developed markets. 

She is the author of numerous articles on her topics of interest. Her works have been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Journal.  She serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science and is currently an Associate Editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Her research has been recognized by Bocconi Research Awards. She has been elected to be a Rep-at-Large for the Knowledge & Innovation Group of the Strategic Management Society (2015-2017) and a member of the Executive Committee for the STR Division of the AoM (2018-2020). 

Nilanjana got a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences from Colby College in the United States of America, a B.E. in Environmental Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, a M.E.M. in Engineering Management from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and a PhD in Business Administration from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business.