Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias is the Steven A. Denning Professor of Technology & Management, and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at 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 resource allocation and project funding decisions, and in the managerial tensions that emerge during new product co-development efforts, irrespective of whether these lie within the firm (i.e. 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, and he has been a Batten Fellow at the Batten Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Darden School of Business. He serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department, and as the Department Editor for the R&D, New Product Development and Project Management department of Production and Operations Management.

Stelios is teaching new product development electives in the regular and part-time MBA programs, the Denning Technology & Management program, and the Global Executive MBA, and the Executive MBA in MOT programs at Georgia Tech. He is a regular contributor 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, and he is the Academic Director for the GE Energy PLMP program. In 2011 Stelios was voted Professor of the Year by the EMBA in Management of Technology for his Innovation class. He has authored several case studies through close collaboration with major firms across multiple industries.