Nishtha Langer is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics (with tenure) at the Lally School of Management , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . She also holds a joint appointment as the Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at RPI. She teaches graduate and undergraduate students on aligning the firms' Information Technology (IT) strategy and business strategies for sustained competitive advantage, exploring new markets, and enabling grounded management and ec
IT’s organizational and societal impact is multi-disciplinary and wide ranging. Dr. Langer is deeply influenced by the inter-disciplinary research ethic of Herb Simon in "following the problem" in analyzing the value of key IT investments and resources. Her research benefits from her rigorous academic training at Carnegie Mellon University combined with over 5 years of IT experience in India and USA. Using theory and techniques from different disciplines such as economics, operations management, marketing,
Dr. Langer's Google Scholar Profile can be found here and her ORC-ID is available here .