Chris Forman
Department of Finance
Korea University
Korea
Biography
Chris Forman is the Peter and Stephanie Nolan Professor of Strategy, Innovation, and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from Northwestern University and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Cornell, he served on the faculty of the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He has also worked as an Associate Economist at Lehman Brothers.
Research Interest
My research investigates innovation that is enabled by information technology investments (IT) and that is related to the creation of new IT products and services. In one line of work I investigate the causes and implications of business IT investment and use. This line of work frames business IT investment as an enabler of business process innovation. In a second line of research I have investigated suppliers of IT goods and services. Most of my research in this area has examined the interrelationships between the commercialization strategies of start-up firms and the intellectual property rights (IPR) strategies of incumbents and start-ups
Publications
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Retana GF, Forman C, Wu DJ. Proactive customer education, customer retention, and demand for technology support: Evidence from a field experiment. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 2015 Sep 28;18(1):34-50.
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Forman C, Goldfarb A, Greenstein S. Agglomeration of invention in the Bay Area: not just ICT. The American Economic Review. 2016 May 1;106(5):146-51.
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Wen W, Ceccagnoli M, Forman C. Opening up intellectual property strategy: Implications for open source software entry by start-up firms. Management Science. 2015 Dec 10;62(9):2668-91.
