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Kristina McElheran is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto (UTSC & Rotman School of Management), affiliated with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab, Boston University’s Technology and Policy Research Initiative, Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program, and MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. Previously an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, Prof. McElheran also worked for two early-stage technology ventures in Silicon Valley prior to earning her PhD at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business. She currently serves as a Lab Economist at the Creative Destruction Lab, one of Toronto’s premier seed-stage programs for technology startups.

Prof. McElheran conducts empirical research on the link between digital technologies, firm performance, and the organizational and market contexts that enable firms to thrive in the digital age. Her work has been featured in Management Science, American Economic Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Econometrics, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Rotman Magazine, and Communications of the ACM.