Vish Krishnan

Vish Krishnan holds the Jacobs Chair in Engineering and Management at the University of California, and is a faculty affiliate at the Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science. Dr. Krishnan holds a PhD from MIT and has co-authored some of the most cited articles on the topics of product management and growth strategy. He is an accomplished scholar and a 5-time winner of the Most Valuable Professor award at the University of California.

Professor Krishnan is a serial co-founder, angel investor, and advisor to a number of science and technology companies, working with them shoulder to shoulder to advance and de-risk their programs. His work with Dell Computer has been documented as a Harvard Business School case study taught at a number of top Universities, and he has been invited to the Wall Street Journal and Cisco CIO forums. His work on solutions-driven growth has been a best-seller article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, and applied in numerous multinational companies including Zeiss, Caterpillar, and Sony. His work with 3M was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Krishnan has served in editorial positions at the top journals in Management (including Management Science) in the areas of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Operations Management.