Josh Krieger

Josh Krieger is the Hoegh Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Josh’s research focuses on R&D strategy and the economics of innovation. His work examines project selection, R&D competition, and how firms adjust their R&D portfolios in response to new information and resources.

He teaches Tough Tech Ventures (TTV), an elective course that he created, which examines the development, commercialization and financing of cutting-edge science and technology.

Josh has a BA in economics and government from Cornell University. He received his PhD at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was a recipient of the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, and a National Bureau of Economics Research Predoctoral Fellow in the International Network on the Value of Medical Research.

Krieger’s research has been published in Management Science, Review of Financial Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His work examines how companies adapt R&D strategies to competitive, scientific, and regulatory developments. He co-authored the Harvard Business School technical note "Intellectual Property in Tough Tech Ventures," which examines the role of intellectual property rights, particularly patents, in the success of ventures focused on advance technologies.

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