Karan Girotra
Charles H Dyson Family Professor of Management and Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management
Karan Girotra is the Charles H. Dyson Family Professor of Management and professor of operations, technology, and innovation at Cornell Tech and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Girotra’s research, teaching, consulting, and public engagement are focused on helping businesses and society realize the promise of artificial intelligence.
Karan’s recent work studies how AI can automate and augment cognitive work in organizations to radically improve individual, team, and operational productivity, enable disruptive business models, and shift economic power. He works with organizations to identify such opportunities and to develop the organizational muscle to refine and scaling these opportunities.
In the past, he studied new business models and economic institutions that help reduce carbon emissions, improve urban living, manage global supply chains, and improve online retail.
Girotra and his research collaborators have been recognized with multiple best paper awards, and his research contributions were recognized with the prestigious Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award. His research on new business models led to the best-selling book, “The Risk Driven Business Model.” He has also won over 30 teaching awards for his teaching on entrepreneurship, AI, and new business models.
Girotra has led executive education programs for several leading companies: Moody’s, Microsoft, Samsung, Amazon, and Accenture, among many others. In addition to his academic work, Girotra was one of the founders of TerraPass, which the New York Times identified as one of the most noteworthy ideas of 2005.
Girotra is one of the founding faculty members at Cornell Tech, leading research on AI and business transformation, the flagship studio-based education programs, and executive education offerings. Before Cornell Tech, Girotra held the Paul Dubrule Sustainability Chair at INSEAD, earned a doctorate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.