Karan Girotra
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Karan Girotra

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Karan Girotra is Charles H Dyson Family Professor of Management and Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation at Cornell-Tech and the Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. Karan’s research has focused on identifying and refining business models enabled by new technologies and enabling the digital transformation of companies and industries. Karan has collaborated with companies building new business models in the areas of urban living, smart transportation and e-commerce, helping them build rigorous research-based solutions. As one of the founding faculty at Cornell Tech, Karan is helping build a unique new educational institution that fuses technology with business and creative thinking. He leads the flagship studio-based education programs at Cornell Tech and is applying his research on innovation to help build a new model for graduate education. Karan’s and his research collaborators have been recognized with multiple prestigious best paper awards, he has won over 25 teaching awards for his teaching on entrepreneurship and new business models and was featured in the Poets and Quant’s Best 40 under 40 business professors lists. In addition to his academic work, Karan was one of the founders of TerraPass Inc., which the New York Times identified as one of the most noteworthy ideas of 2005. Since then, TerraPass has helped businesses and individuals reduce over hundred million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Prior to joining Cornell Tech, Karan held the Paul Dubrule Chair at INSEAD, earned a doctorate at the Wharton School and a bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Follow Karan on twitter @GirotraK
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