Amisha is a PhD candidate in Strategy & Innovation at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. Her research interests are decision-making practices in entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on inclusion and inequality. She conducts field experiments and field research, and leverages her previous work in varied entrepreneurship research, policy, and founder roles to inform her research. She will be joining NYU as an assistant professor in Management and Organizations in July 2023.
Amisha’s research has been recognized with the Best Paper and Best PhD Paper award at the 2022 Annual Strategic Management Conference, the Industry Studies Association’s 2022 Giarratani Rising Star Award – Runner Up, a Best Paper award at AOM, a 2020 SRF Research Dissertation award, and as a Finalist in the Organization Science/INFORMS 2022 dissertation proposal prize.
Previously Amisha worked in varied entrepreneurship research and policy in roles in funding organizations, with governments, in nonprofits, and as an entrepreneur. She has an MSc in Population and Development from the London School of Economics and a BA in History from University of Warwick.