Aseem Kaul is the Mosaic Company–Jim Prokopanko Professor for Corporate Responsibility at the Carlson School of Management, where he teaches business and corporate strategy. He also teaches in the Technological Leadership Institute’s Master of Science in Management of Technology (MOT) program at the University of Minnesota. Aseem's research focuses on the relationship between firm scope and capabilities, examining how new capabilities and technologies are best governed and organized, and how the organizational boundary choices firms make impact their subsequent innovation.
More recently, Aseem has also been exploring the social and political strategies firms adopt to influence their business environment, focusing specifically on the consequences of such strategies for social welfare. Aseem's research has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategy Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. Aseem serves as an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Review and as Guest Associate Editor at Strategic Management Journal, and sits on on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Strategy Science.
He also currently serves on the board of directors for the Strategic Management Society, and the Consortium for Competitiveness & Cooperation (CCC). Closer to home, Aseem sits on the board of Ten Thousand Things Theater company. Aseem's research has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice award from the Academy of Management's BPS Division, as well as multiple honorable mentions from the Strategic Management Society. Prior to joining academia, Aseem worked as a consultant with McKinsey and Company's New Delhi office.
