Melissa A. Schilling, Ph.D.

Melissa A. Schilling is a professor of management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Professor Schilling earned a B.S. in business from the University of Colorado in 1990 and a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Washington in 1997. She worked as an assistant professor for Boston University for four years before joining Stern. She recently won a National Science Foundation Early CAREER award that includes a grant to support her research for the next five years. She also won the Broderick prize for research while working at Boston University.

Professor Schilling's research focuses on technological innovation and knowledge creation. She has studied how firms fight technology standards battles, and how they utilize collaboration, protection, and timing of entry strategies. She also studies how product designs and organizational structures migrate toward or away from increasing modularity. Her most recent work focuses on knowledge creation, including how variation (rather than specialization) can accelerate the learning curve, and how the structure of knowledge networks affects their overall capacity for knowledge creation.

Professor Schilling has published articles in a wide range of journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. She teaches Strategic Management and Technological Innovation Management in the undergraduate and MBA programs at the Stern School.