Prasanna Tambe
Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Associate Professor of Operations at The Wharton School
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- The Wharton School
- Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Biography
Prasanna Tambe is an Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences (IOMS) at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. His research focuses on the economics of the high-tech labor force. Some recent research projects focus on understanding how leading firms compensate their high-tech workers, why cities differ in the technical skills available to employers, and how the spread of new technologies impacts careers.
Much of this research has uses Internet data sources to measure skills and labor market activity at novel levels of granularity. His published papers have analyzed data from online job sites, data aggregators, and other labor market intermediaries that generate large databases of fine-grained information on workers’ skills and career paths or on employers’ job requirements. He is a co-author of "The Talent Equation: Big Data Lessons for Navigating the Skills Gap and Building a Competitive Workforce," published by McGraw Hill in 2013.
His research has been published or is forthcoming in a number of academic journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, The Review of Financial Studies, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Communications of the ACM, and Information Economics and Policy and it has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His research has also won a number of awards, including the Best Published Paper in Information Systems Research and two papers have been nominees for the Best Published IS Paper in Management Science. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Management Science and Information Systems Research.
Professor Tambe received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Interests
- Economics of IT Labor
- Technological Change and Labor Markets
Academic Background
S.B./M.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Managerial Science and Applied Economics
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School
Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe is an Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the economics of technology and labor. Recent research projects focus on 1) understanding how firms compete for software developers, 2) how software engineers choose technologies in which to specialize, and 3) how AI is transforming HR management.
Much of this research has uses Internet-scale data sources to measure labor market activity at novel levels of granularity. His published papers have analyzed data from online job sites and other labor market intermediaries that generate databases of fine-grained information on workers’ skills and career paths or on employers’ job requirements. He is a co-author of “The Talent Equation: Big Data Lessons for Navigating the Skills Gap and Building a Competitive Workforce,” published by McGraw Hill in 2013.
His research has been published or is forthcoming in a number of academic journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, The Review of Financial Studies, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Communications of the ACM, and Information Economics and Policy and it has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His research has also won a number of awards, including the Best Published Paper in Information Systems Research and two papers have been nominees for the Best Published IS Paper in Management Science. He currently serves on the editorial board of Management Science and in the past, has served on the editorial board of Information Systems Research.
Professor Tambe received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Talent Equation - Big Data Research
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Courses Taught
Business Model Innovation in the Digital age
The Wharton School
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Leading Today’s Talent: Management Strategies for an Evolving Workforce
The Wharton School
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Feb 24, 2025
Generative AI and Business Transformation
The Wharton School
San Francisco, California, United States
May 5, 2025
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