Satish Nambisan, the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management and professor of design and innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management, has been named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate for the second year in a row—this year in the category of economics and business.
“It is great to be recognized again,” Nambisan said. “It helps reinforce the potential value of the research that all of us are doing here at Weatherhead.”
This distinction places Nambisan among an elite group of researchers, who are being recognized for publishing multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science over the past decade. This year, 7,125 researchers were given this designation. Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers are one in 1,000.
Nambisan’s research interests focus on how digital technologies shape innovation, entrepreneurship and global business. His research has been published in a wide range of academic and practitioner outlets including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies and Academy of Management Review. His latest book, The Digital Multinational: Navigating the New Normal in Global Business (MIT Press, 2022), won the Axiom 2023 Business Book award in the international business/globalization category.
He currently has several ongoing research projects but one of the most fascinating topics he said he’s working on is the management of digital harms.
“Technologies such as social media, virtual reality, robotics/automation, and generative AI are all quite powerful and valuable, but they all have a dark side too—there are negative consequences or harms evident at the individual, organizational and the societal levels,” Nambisan said. “My work is focused on understanding the nature of such digital harms and the governance needed to manage them. As we embed these and other technologies in our daily lives, it becomes imperative that we also become more effective in managing and mitigating the associated digital harms.”