Rate My Professor Francesca Grippa

Francesca Grippa serves as Associate Dean of Research for Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies (CPS), where she also directs the Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship and leads the Bachelor of Science in Management program as Faculty Lead. She holds a courtesy appointment as Teaching Professor in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Grippa joined CPS in 2010 as Assistant Teaching Professor, advancing to Associate Teaching Professor (2014-2018) and Full Teaching Professor (2018-present). In these roles, she teaches business strategy, innovation, change management, entrepreneurship, international business, leadership, principles of management, and introduction to business. She also lectures part-time in the D’Amore-McKim MBA program on new venture creation, innovation and enterprise growth, business strategy, small business management, and operations management. Prior to Northeastern, Grippa was a tenured Assistant Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Salento’s Industrial Engineering Department (2008-2010), graduate faculty in the Master’s Program in Management, Innovation and Services Engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (2007-2009), and part-time faculty in the International Master’s in e-Business Management at University of Salento (2004-2007). Her academic background includes a PhD in e-Business Management (2007) and Master’s in e-Business Management (2003) from the University of Salento, with a visiting PhD position at MIT’s Center for Digital Business (2005-2006), and a BA in Communication Sciences from the University of Siena (2002, 110/110 cum laude).

Grippa’s research interests encompass collaborative innovation networks, social network analysis, knowledge management, innovation in organizations, ICT impacts on healthcare teams and business models, social capital, team performance, virtual communities, and inclusive entrepreneurship promoting supplier diversity and community resilience. She has secured major grants as Principal Investigator for the Economic Development Administration’s University Center Project “Reinvigorating Inclusive, Equitable Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE²) in New England” (2021-2026, $1,019,230) and Co-Principal Investigator for the Kauffman Foundation’s “Promoting supplier diversity in higher education institutions” (2022-2025, $428,883), alongside Northeastern seed grants for the Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship ($12,000) and entrepreneurial resilience ($50,000) in 2021-2022. Key publications include co-editing Handbook of Social Computing (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2023), Digital Transformation of Collaboration (Springer, 2020), Collaborative Innovation Networks: Latest Insights from Social Innovation, Education, and Emerging Technologies Research (Springer, 2019), and Collaborative Innovation Networks: Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations (Springer, 2018). Her peer-reviewed articles appear in Journal of Knowledge Management (2022, “Boosting advice and knowledge sharing among healthcare professionals”), Technological Forecasting & Social Change (2020, “The impact of social media presence and board member composition on new venture success”), Tourism Management Perspectives (2020, “Studying the Association of Online Brand Importance with Museum Visitors: an Application of the Semantic Brand Score”), Sustainability (2020, “A Platform for AI-Enabled Real-Time Feedback to Promote Digital Collaboration”), and Management Decision (2018, “Measuring information exchange and brokerage capacity of healthcare teams”). Grippa maintains research affiliations at MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Group and has received fellowships for AI strategy and digital transformation studies.