Rate My Professor Henri Schildt

Henri Schildt is a Professor of Strategy at Aalto University, with joint appointments in the Department of Management Studies at the School of Business and the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the School of Science. He earned a Master's degree in Engineering and Technology from Helsinki University of Technology on January 29, 2003, and a Doctoral degree (DSc) in Engineering and Technology from the same institution on December 13, 2006. Previously, he taught at Imperial College London and has over a decade of experience in executive education on strategy, digitalization, and organizational change.

Schildt's research centers on strategic change, strategy processes, organizational cognition, digital strategies, data-driven management, institutional logics, digital innovation, and social enterprises. He has led major funded projects as Principal Investigator, including the ERC Consolidator grant 'The Data Imperative' (2018-2023), Academy of Finland project 'Smarter Work with Generative AI' (2024-2028), and others on refugee entrepreneurship and digitalization. His publications appear in top journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, and Journal of Management Studies. Key works include the books 'The Data Imperative: How Digitalization is Reshaping Management' (Oxford University Press, 2020) and 'The Institutional Logic of Digitalization' (2022); recent papers such as 'Social Purpose Formation and Evolution in Nonprofit Organizations' (Organization Science, 2025), 'Public sector innovation through nested experimental spaces: Reinventing the immigrant integration system' (Research Policy, 2025), 'The Reproduction and Evolution of Institutional Logics: A practice-centric perspective' (Organization Theory, 2025), and 'Waking up to digital innovation: how organisational secrecy hampers top management focus on strategic renewal' (Innovation: Organization and Management, 2024). Awards include the Master's Thesis Award from Helsinki University of Technology (2003), Booz Allen Hamilton/Strategic Management Society Best PhD Paper 2004 Runner-Up, and Researcher of the Year from Kauppakorkeakoulun tukisäätiö (2015). He ranks among the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% scientists globally (2024) and contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals including decent work, innovation, and partnerships. Schildt teaches on digital strategies, serves as a journal reviewer, and has organized workshops.