Patel Gbedjemaiho
Management
Education
MA in Business Administration, The Ohio State University, 2023
MBA in Finance and Economics, African School of Economics, 2020
BBA in International Trade, National School of Applied Economics and Management, 2015
Research Interests
Economics of Innovation
Competitive Strategy
Empirical Industrial Organization
Artificial Intelligence
Technological Change
Resource/Capability Reconfiguration
Knowledge Recombination
Strategic Leadership
Strategic Human Capital
Executive Succession
Corporate Transactions
Teaching Interests
Masters
- Strategic Management
- Managerial Economics
- Economics of Innovation
- Econometrics
- Probability and Statistics Theory
Professional experience
MBA Quantitative Methods Tutoring Support & Research Assistant, The Ohio State University, 2024-2025
Strategy Research Associate & Strategy Lecturer, The Ohio State University, 2020-2023
Predoctoral Fellow & TA in Macroeconomics, African School of Economics, 2018-2020
International Trade Specialist, Sol Des Anges, 2016-2017
Research Intern, Bank of Africa Benin, 2014-2015
Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award, the Technology and Innovation Management Division, AOM, 2026
Outstanding Applicant Award ($15,000), UMass Amherst, 2025
Research Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) Fellowship, UMass Amherst, 2025
Best Reviewer Award, the Knowledge & Innovation Interest Group, SMS, 2024
Best Reviewer Award, the Technology and Innovation Management Division, AOM, 2024
MBA Scholarship ($3,000), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2017
Selected Publications
Do Outside CEOs Change Firm Strategy More (or Less) Than Inside CEOs? The Case of Tech Redeployment (Co-authored with Kluppel L. and Anand J).