Dr. Satish Nambisan is Professor of Entrepreneurship & Technology Management in the Management Department at the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also holds a joint position as Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Prior to joining UWM, he was Professor of Technology Management & Strategy at the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Nambisan is a widely recognized author, researcher, and management consultant. He conducts research in the areas of innovation management, technological entrepreneurship, technology strategy, and social innovation. His articles have appeared in several premier management journals including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Management Science, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Review.
Dr. Nambisan is the author of The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World published by Wharton School Publishing in 2007, which applies the concept of Global brain to management and focuses on global innovation networks that companies can tap into to enhance their innovation agenda. An article based on this book appeared in Harvard Business Review.
Dr. Nambisan (along with Prof. Mohanbir Sawhney of Northwestern University) coined the term Innovation capitalist to describe a new type of innovation intermediary. The first article introducing this was published by the Harvard Business Review.
Dr. Nambisan is also credited with introducing the concept of Virtual customer environment that describes Web-based forums for customer co-innovation and value co-creation.
Prof. Nambisan obtained his Ph.D. in Management from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University and his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.