Natalia Levina has received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is a Paganelli-Bull Chair Professor of Technology and International Business at New York University Stern School of Business. In 2022, she became a Fellow at the Association for Information Systems. Her main research interest is in understanding how people span organizational, professional, cultural, and other boundaries while producing and using technological innovations. Currently, her studies focus on the evaluation, adoption, and governance of AI in organizations, open innovation projects, theories of smart contracts, and firm-community relationships in crowdsourcing. He prior research focused on strategies and tactics relating to global sourcing of expertise, content, and ideas. Her work has made significant contributions to the understanding of vendor capability building in professional services, multivendor portfolio strategies, knowledge-sharing and collaboration effectiveness for distributed innovation, and strategies for open innovation.
Prof. Levina is an innovative teacher who has developed a unique course on “Digital Innovation & Crowdsourcing,” which has been receiving stellar evaluations in undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA programs. She has been nominated for the Best Professor Award by NYU Stern's Executive MBA students. She is a frequent speaker on these topics in academic and industry conferences.
Her research has been published in top journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Decision Sciences Journal, and Harvard Business Review, among others. She has received the Paper of the Year award for the best published paper in the field Information Systems in 2015 and 2022 as well as numerous best published conference paper awards. Prof. Levina has previously served as a Senior Editor at Information Systems Research, as a board member of Organization Science journal, and is currently an editorial board member of Information & Organizations. She has served as a program co-chair for the 2016 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and the conference chair for Collective Intelligence Conference (2016). She has co-founded and chaired AIS Special Interest Group (SIG) on Grounded Theory Method. As a mentor, she has served as a chair and committee member of over a dozen of doctoral students. Prof. Levina was awarded numerous research grants including Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship, IBM Shared University Research Award, and National Science Foundation VOSS Research Grant. She was a visiting professor at the Warwick Business School, the University of Cambridge (UK), the U. of Hawaii, and the University of California Santa Barbara. She is also mentor and research affiliate at the Kyiv School of Business.