Anders Richtnér

Anders Richtnér is associate professor and, currently on "garden leave" (konkurrensklausul) before entering a new position at BTS. He was, for close to 5 years, CEO of Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education with full P/L responsibility and member of the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) Executive Management Team. He has been named one of Sweden’s 33 "super-talents" by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

HHe conducts his research at the House of Innovation and at the Center for Sports and Business at SSE. He deeply cares about teaching and consistently work to imagine, design, test, and implement pioneering approaches to education. During 2014-2015 he was a visiting research scholar at Babson College and from September 2015 he holds a position as Social Innovation Fellow at Babson College.

Anders was from early 2010 part of the founding team and chairman of the board at Inmotion Intelligence a start-up company developing training machines for functional testing and training. Anders left the company in late 2013 when the company was acquired by external investors.

He is a leading inspirational lecturer within the field of innovation and business renewal. Recently he conducted a study on excellence in teaching, that has received attention and been published. He currently works as a strategic facilitator for companies and schools across the globe helping them develop courses and training programs, but also on issues around innovation and business development.

His teaching at the Stockholm School of Economics is done at the undergraduate and the graduate level, but also in executive education including within-company and open enrollment programs in the areas of Innovation management and strategy, Operation management and strategy, and Entrepreneurship. He has been responsible for the development and delivery of a new curriculum at SSE concerned with Global Challenges.

His doctoral thesis on how companies implement downsizing while sustaining innovation, knowledge and creativity was awarded the EFMD/Emerald Outstanding Doctoral Award (award for best thesis in Operations & Supply Chain Management published 2004-2006, worldwide).

He has three on-going research projects: Knowledge transfer in MNC; Measuring innovation; and Innovation through partnerships. All three are conducted in close co-operation with companies with a clear aim of contributing to their competitiveness, but also scientific knowledge. He has published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, Research Policy, R&D Management and International Journal of Operations Management.

He was a visiting scholar at Politechnico di Milano (Italy), 2002, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, 2007.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Stockholm School of Economics (2000 — 2004)
• Visting PhD-student Politecnico di Milano (2003 — 2003)
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) Stockholm School of Economics (1995 — 2000)

Companies

• On garden leave (konkurrensklausul) until 2022-04 On garden leave (konkurrensklausul) until 2022-04 (2021)
• Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at Babson College Babson College (2015)
• Associate Professor (tenured) Stockholm School of Economics (2015)
• Research fellow Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology (2011)
• Board Member Hanken & SSE Executive Education (2017 — 2021)
• CEO Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education (2017 — 2021)
• Program Director Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education (2006 — 2021)
• Head of SSE Executive Education Innovation Lab Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education (2015 — 2016)
• Visiting Research Scholar Babson College (2014 — 2015)