Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias is the Edward J. Brown Jr. associate professor of Technology and Operations Management at the Operations Management area of the College of Management at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on new product development and the management of technology. In particular he is interested in the challenges that arise during the NPD portfolio selection decisions, and in the managerial problems that emerge during the new product co-development efforts irrespective of whether these lie within the firm (i.e. management of new product development teams) or they take place across firms (technology licensing and management of co-development projects). Stelios’ work has been awarded the 2nd prize in the George B. Dantzig Best Dissertation Competition, organized by INFORMS and it has appeared on Management Science and Production and Operations Management. He recently received the Brady Family award for research excellence from the College of Management at Georgia Tech. He serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department, and as a Senior Editor for the Management of Technology, and NPD, R&D and Project Management departments of Production and Operations Management.

Stelios is teaching new product development electives in the regular and part-time MBA programs, the Technology and Management undergraduate program, and the Global Executive MBA program at Georgia Tech. He is contributing regularly to open enrollment and custom executive programs on innovation and project management at the Huang Executive Education Center at Georgia Tech’s College of Management. He has authored several case studies through close collaboration with major firms across multiple industries.