Description
Kristina McElheran is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Rotman School of Management. With a PhD from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University, McElheran studies how digital technologies reshape firm performance and the evolution of work. Her research spans the commercial internet, cloud computing, and AI-based technologies, and appears in journals such as Management Science, the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, and the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. Before joining the University of Toronto, she spent six years on the Harvard Business School faculty. Formative experiences at two early-stage Silicon Valley startups add a practitioner’s perspective on decision-making under uncertainty, innovation in real organizational contexts, and what emerging technologies can mean for society. She is a Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, a Faculty Fellow at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and has affiliations at the University of Toronto’s Acceleration Consortium and Creative Destruction Lab. She is a frequent speaker to academic, industry, and policy audiences, bringing evidence to active debates on digital transformation and the future of work.
