Kristina Mcelheran
Department of Management
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Kristina McElheran joined the University of Toronto in 2014 after five years at the Harvard Business School and one year as a visiting scholar at MIT. She has long been fascinated by the changes that information technology has been fueling in the inner workings of firms and in the economy, more broadly. Trained as an economist, Kristina conducts empirical research on the link between information technology, firm performance, and the organizational and market contexts that enable firms to thrive in the digital age. Her work has been featured in Management Science, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Harvard Business Review, and Communications of the ACM. Kristina McElheran joined the University of Toronto in 2014 after five years at the Harvard Business School and one year as a visiting scholar at MIT. She has long been fascinated by the changes that information technology has been fueling in the inner workings of firms and in the economy, more broadly. Trained as an economist, Kristina conducts empirical research on the link between information technology, firm performance, and the organizational and market contexts that enable firms to thrive in the digital age. Her work has been featured in Management Science, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Harvard Business Review, and Communications of the ACM.
Research Interest
Kristina’s research focuses on the use of IT and data in firms, with an emphasis on organizational design and strategy, including delegation, vertical integration, diversification, competition and supply chain linkages. She enjoys Special Sworn Status at the U.S. Census Bureau but is constantly looking for new and better data on the types of IT investments and IT-related practices that firms are pursuing and how they structure themselves to take advantage of them. Research themes: Innovation and technological change, information technology, corporate strategy, organizational economics, industrial organization, supply chain management.
