Professor and Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group at Northeastern University’s D'Amore-McKim School of Business
Samina Karim is a strategy professor and consultant. Her work focuses on organization design, acquisitions and alliances, and innovation through reconfiguration of resources and activities. She is Professor and Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation group at Northeastern University’s...
Reflections from the Interview
Samina’s academic focus has been on organization design as the study of how to get things done. This grew out of her background, and her understanding of control and coordination as central to accomplishing important outcomes. Both can be loaded! But the design of the organization – in terms of centralization and decentralization – and the allocation of resources through them is not often clear in organizations. It’s key to know what’s important and what tradeoffs you face, and then...