Navid Asgari

Dr. Navid Asgari is the Grose Family Endowed Chair in Business and Associate Professor of Strategy and Technology Management at the Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center.

His research examines how technological change reshapes firm strategy, structure, and value creation, with current projects exploring organizational form, knowledge flows, and the strategic implications of artificial intelligence and biopharmaceutical innovation.

Navid serves on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science, the premier INFORMS journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a Visiting Academic at the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IORA) at the National University of Singapore and a former Research Fellow at the IBM Watson Research Center.

He teaches courses in innovation, AI strategy, and organizational transformation, and coaches executives and global leaders on how to navigate the challenges of technological change.

• Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2014

• Competition and Cooperation
• Technological Change
• Organizational Design
• Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning
• Biopharma and healthcare

Journal papers

• Walls to Unite: How Does Competition in a Firm’s Alliance Portfolio Affect the Structure and Outcome of its Knowledge Production? Navid Asgari, Deepak Nayak, Ram Ranganathan & Vivek Tandon. 2025. Conditionally accepted at Organization Science
• Time to Break-up: Dynamic surrounding Alliances between Established and Young Firms in the Biopharmaceutical Industry. Navid Asgari, Poornima Subramanian, Moren Lavesque & Soh Pek Hooi. 2024. Production and Operations Management. 34(6), 1276-1305. https://doi.org/10.1177/10591478241279551 (Original work published 2025)
• Divestment of Relational Assets Following Acquisitions: Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry. Vivek Tandon, Navid Asgari & Ram Ranganathan. 2023. Strategic Management Journal. 44(4): 1013-1052
• Value Chain Configuration and Coopetition. Navid Asgari & Will Mitchell. 2025. Strategic Management Review. Vol. 6: No. 1-2, pp 53-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/111.00000074
• Creating and Taming Discord: How Firms Manage Embedded Competition in Alliance Portfolios to Limit Alliance Termination. Navid Asgari, Vivek Tandon, Kulwant Singh & Will Mitchell. 2018. Strategic Management Journal. 39(12): 3273-
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• Alliance Portfolio Reconfiguration Following a Technological Discontinuity. Navid Asgari, Kulwant Singh & Will Mitchell. 2017. Strategic Management Journal, 38(5): 1062-1081.
• The Emerging Role of PPP Value Chain Integrators in the US Pharmaceutical Ecosystem. Navid Asgari & Will Mitchell. 2020. Health Management, Policy, and Innovation. 5(22)
   

Book Chapter

• Asgari N, Singh K. 2017. Alliances and Exogenous Shocks. In Collaborative Strategy: Critical Issues for Alliances and Networks, Mesquita L, Ragozzino R, Reuer J (eds). Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK.