Deepak Hegde

Deepak Hegde, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Management and NEC Faculty Fellow at New York Universitys Stern School of Business. He is founder and director of the Endless Frontier Labs , a program designed to transform scientific breakthroughs into high-growth businesses. He also leads the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship , a center that suppo... rts entrepreneurs transition their early stage ideas into prototypes and beyond. Professor Hegdes research studies how entrepreneurs and innovators commercialize their ideas. His work focuses on science and technology intensive industries and has been published in journals such as Science, Nature Biotechnology, Journal of Finance, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Yale Journal of Law & Technology and Research Policy. His work has also been featured in outlets such as Nature, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal. Professor Hegdes research has won numerous awards, including the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes young faculty making significant contributions to the field of entrepreneurship, and the Thomas Alva Edison Fellowship, awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He was named one of the worlds best 40 under 40 business school professors by Poets & Quants . Professor Hegde teaches MBA courses on Entrepreneurship, Competitive Strategy and Corporate Strategy, and coordinates a PhD seminar on innovation. Prior to joining Stern in 2010, he worked at Bosch, a large technology-based German company, and Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm for the U.S. government and business sectors. Originally trained as an engineer, Professor Hegde earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.Read More