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Visnjic, Ivanka

Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at Esade
URL Associate Professor
Director, IIK - Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management

Education
  • Phd in Applied Economics. Catholic University of Leuven
  • Master of Business Economics. University of Novi Sad
  • Master of Advanced Business Studies. Catholic University of Leuven

Biography
Ivanka Visnjic is Associate Professor of Innovation at ESADE Business School, where she alsoacts as Director of the Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management.Ivanka worked at consulting firm McKinsey & Co, completed her PhD at KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven in Belgium, held visiting posts at University of Cambridge, University ofCalifornia, Berkley and London Business School. She also helped set up business-ledpartnership, Cambridge Service Alliance, at University of Cambridge.Her research, teaching and advisory activities focus on discontinuous technological shiftsand disruptive and radical innovation in products, services and business models. Inparticular, she studies how established companies deal with uncertainty in theirenvironment by developing and bringing to market novel technologies, shifting fromproduct to service business models and delivering customer solutions and outcomes.Her research has been published in well-established academic journals, such as CaliforniaManagement Review, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Product InnovationManagement. Ivanka has received a number of awards and grants for her research,including Poets & Quants' 40 under 40 Professors in 2020, Journal of OperationsManagement Ambassador Award in 2018, IBM Faculty Award in 2012.She led joint research projects, gave keynote speeches, hosted workshops and workedclosely with C-suite and senior management teams of several global companies, such asAtlas Copco, BAE Systems, Caterpillar, Enel, FC Barcelona, IBM, Novozymes, Pearson, Rocheand Telefonica.

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