On this episode of ITK Radio, a conversation with Arvind Malhotra.
Arvind is the H. Allen Andrew Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
His area of research focuses on crafting innovation problems, open innovation approaches, crowd creativity, crowdsourcing for innovation, using crowds to solve complex societal problems and the future of work.
His research projects include studying successful open-innovation organizational and extra-organizational structures, creating the process and structure for large-scale collaboration, and management of knowledge in extra-organizational collaborative contexts.
His book “Unleashing the Crowd: Collaborative Solutions to Wicked Business and Societal Problems” focuses on how organizations can leverage crowds to solve wicked business and societal problems.
Arvind has received research grants from the Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise, Society for Information Managers Advanced Practices Council, Dell, Carnegie-Bosche Institute, National Science Foundation, RosettaNet consortium, UNC-Small Grants Program, and the Marketing Sciences Institute.
He has consulted, conducted applied research projects or led executive development workshops with ESPN, the US Navy, the US Air Force, IBM, ExxonMobil, Primax Properties, Sprint, RosettaNet Consortium, American Golf Corporation, Cisco, ING Direct, and Cargill Sweeteners.
Arvind’s research has been published in leading academic journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Academy of Marketing Sciences, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Knowledge Management and Communications of the ACM.
He received the best paper award from MIS Quarterly, the top information science journal, in 2001, and the best paper of the year from the Journal of Services Research and Journal of Knowledge Management in 2005. Two of his papers earned the prestigious Society for Information Managers Best Paper Award.
He received his PhD in business administration and his MS in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Southern California. He earned his BE in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Delhi.
You can find Arvind on LinkedIn here.
Insights + Ideas:
+ UNC Kenan-Flagler celebrates groundbreaking for Steven D. Bell Hall: Steven D. Bell Hall will allow UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School to admit 50% more students into its Undergraduate Business Program and modernize the learning environment for students in all of its top-ranked Undergraduate Business, Master of Accounting, MBA and PhD programs. UNC
https://www.unc.edu/posts/2022/09/30/unc-kenan-flagler-celebrates-groundbreaking-for-steven-d-bell-hall/
+ "Entrepreneurs have always been rock stars"
+ Embracing the power of intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship
+ Entrepreneurship is a mindset
+ Some of the most innovative ideas come from frontline employees
+ Understanding how to manage entrepreneurs and managing creatives
+ "You need to be entrepreneurial to crave out a new space for yourself in your new country"
+ Entrepreneurship is about solving problems - hopefully big, complex problems
+ "a lot of innovation is communications, communicating your ideas"
+ The power of using crowds to solve complex societal problems
+ "having an open mindset to admitting that you do not possess all the knowledge to solve a complex, critical issue
+ "the simple things have been done"
+ "the more complex the problem the bigger the crowd needed"
Read: Unleashing the Crowd: Collaborative Solutions to Wicked Business and Societal Problems
Read: Beyond Disruption: Changing the Rules in the Marketplace
