Niloofar Abolfathi

Niloofar Abolfathi is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategy and Policy at NUS Business School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of competitive strategy and entrepreneurship. In her research, she explores incumbent and entrants dynamics under market shifts such as changes in customer side frictions and technological shifts such as introduction of new technologies. In her work, she mainly uses large, quantitative data on global settings like the telecommunications industry.

Niloofar holds a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University, an M.S. degree in Industrial Management from Allameh University, and a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from K.N.Toosi University of Technology. During her doctoral studies, she has been a visiting scholar at George Washington University. She has taught courses on strategy and innovation at WU Vienna and Bocconi University.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Università Bocconi
• Master's degree Allameh Tabataba'i University
• Bachelor's degree K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Companies

• Visiting Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2019)
• Assistant Professor WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) (2017 — 2019)
• PhD Candidate Bocconi University (2012 — 2018)
• Lecturer Università Bocconi (2017 — 2017)
• Visiting Research Scholar George Washington University (2015 — 2016)
• Researcher Sharif University of Technology (2010 — 2012)

Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Sustainability
• Simulations

Other

Mathematical Modeling, Qualitative Research, Econometrics, Business Strategy, Analysis, Matlab, SPSS, Stata, Economics, Data Analysis, Statistics, Research