Atul Nerkar

Atul Nerkar research focuses on how technology, innovation and entrepreneurship affect business and corporate strategy. He studies research productivity in organizations and the evolution of technological capabilities in the context of the pharmaceutical, chemical and optical disc industries.

His current research examines the drivers of R&D success in the pharmaceutical, chemical and optical disc industries. In particular, he focuses on firms'' patent portfolios and the evolutionary process underlying their development.

Dr. Nerkar is the former associate dean of the Executive MBA Evening and Weekend Programs at UNC Kenan-Flagler. Before he joined the School, he served on the faculty of Columbia University''s Graduate School of Business and as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania''s Wharton School.

He worked with the Unilever Group of Companies in India before he studied at Wharton.

He received his PhD in strategic management from Wharton, where he also received an MA in managerial science and applied economics. He has a bachelor of production engineering from the University of Bombay and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

Areas of Expertise

• entrepreneurship
• innovation
• intellectual property
• strategy
• technology - innovation

Companies

• Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship & Jeffrey A Allred Distinguished Scholar Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2012)
• Associate Dean of Weekend and Evening MBA Programs Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hll (2012 — 2016)
• Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005 — 2012)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Management The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2004 — 2005)
• Assistant Professor of Management Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (1997 — 2005)
• Visiting Professor Indian School of Business (2003 — 2003)
• Manager Unilever (1991 — 1992)

Education

• PhD The Wharton School
• M.A. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Masters Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
• B.E. University of Mumbai