Nicolaj Siggelkow

Nicolaj Siggelkow is the David M. Knott Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at Wharton. He studied Economics at Stanford University and earned an M.A. in Economics from Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. Professor Siggelkow has been the recipient of multiple MBA and Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Awards, including the Class of 1984 Award presented to the faculty member with the highest teaching rating in the MBA classroom, the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, the Wharton Award, and the Wharton Graduate Association Student Choice Award. His research has been published in the leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Industrial Economics, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization. In 2008, he received the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier. Nicolaj is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Academy of Management Perspectives.

His current research focuses on the strategic and organizational implications of interactions among a firm’s choices of activities and resources. In particular, his research has focused on three broad questions: How do firms develop, grow and adjust their set of activities over time? How does organizational design affect a firm’s ability to find high-performing sets of activities? What role do interactions among a firm’s activities play in creating and sustaining competitive advantage? To address these questions, he has employed a range of methodological approaches, including in-depth field studies of individual firms, econometric methods for large-scale data sets, formal modeling, and simulation models.

Awards and Honors

• Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Executive MBA Program, West Coast, 2015
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton, MBA Program, 2015
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton, MBA Program, 2014
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Executive MBA Program, West Coast, 2014
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Executive MBA Program, East Coast, 2014
• Core Curriculum Teaching Award, Wharton, 2013
• Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, 2013
• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012
• Student-elected Faculty Marshal, 2011
• Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, 2010
• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
• Student-elected Faculty Marshal, 2010
• Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier, 2008
• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006-2007
• Class of 1984 Award (presented to the faculty member with the highest teaching rating in the MBA classroom), 2006
• Excellence in Teaching Undergraduates Award, 2005
• The (inaugural) Wharton Graduate Association Student Choice Award (for commitment to teaching excellence), 2005
• Class of 1984 Award (presented to the faculty member with the highest teaching rating in the MBA classroom), 2004
• The Wharton Award (awarded by MBA students to “the professor who has contributed the most to students’ experience at Wharton”), 2004
• Student-elected Faculty Marshal, 2004-2008
• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003-2004
• Excellence in Teaching Undergraduates Award, 2003
• Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999-2000