Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle
Greater Seattle Area
Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle
Greater Seattle Area
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.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Professor in the Business School
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
August 2003 — June 2007 (3 years 11 months)
Professor in the College of Business
(Research industry)
1998 — 2003 (5 years )
(Research industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
(Public Company; Investment Banking industry)
June 1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Ph.D. , Management , 2003
B.S.E. , Biomedical Engineering , 1992 — 1996
B.S.E. , Finance , 1992 — 1996