Sonali Shah

Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle

Greater Seattle Area

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Education
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Sonali Shah’s Summary

Business School Professor. Focus: Technology & Innovation Management, Strategy, Organization Design

Sonali K. Shah is an assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research examines the creation and maintenance of innovation communities in fields ranging from open source software to sports equipment to medical imaging devices. She has extensively studied the inner-workings of innovation communities, that is the motives, coordination structures, and strategies that support community-based innovation and product development. This work has led her to theoretical and empirical work investigating the processes underlying the formation of new industries and product markets and issues related to knowledge, entrepreneurship, and the role of institutions in shaping entrepreneurial and innovative activity at the individual level. She has worked with technology clients at Morgan Stanley & Co. (Technology Investment Banking Group, New York) and at McKinsey & Co. (San Francisco). She holds B.S.E degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Sonali Shah’s Experience

  • Professor

    University of Washington, Seattle

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

    June 2007Present (2 years 6 months)

    Professor in the Business School

  • Professor

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

    August 2003June 2007 (3 years 11 months)

    Professor in the College of Business

  • Doctoral Candidate

    MIT

    (Research industry)

    19982003 (5 years )

  • Summer Associate

    McKinsey & Co.

    (Research industry)

    20002000 (less than a year)

  • Analyst

    Morgan Stanley & Co.

    (Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

    June 19961997 (1 year )


Sonali Shah’s Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

    Ph.D. , Management , 2003

  • University of Pennsylvania

    B.S.E. , Biomedical Engineering , 19921996

  • University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

    B.S.E. , Finance , 19921996


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