Kristina is a senior fellow in the Economics, Justice & Society department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Kristina’s research centers on digital transformation and the organizational and managerial practices that may enable or interfere with its success. Her most-recent studies have focused on better measuring and evaluating firm returns from cloud computing, predictive analytics, and AI. She has collaborated with the U.S. Census Bureau for over a decade to assess, validate, design, and collect novel microdata on technology use by private and public firms across the United States. 

Kristina consulted on a new firm survey of cloud computing use and its implications for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2022. Ongoing work is focused on developing novel, robust, and timely firm-level measures of digitization and its economic impacts. 

Kristina is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, where she is active in both research and management education in strategy and economics. Prior to this, she spent six years on faculty at the Harvard Business School, in the Technology and Operations Management unit. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in Management Science, Journal of Econometrics, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and Communications of the ACM.

Prior to her graduate studies, Kristina held a variety of roles at two early-stage Silicon Valley startups, where she acquired first-hand experience with the development and diffusion of novel digital technologies. She remains close to breakthroughs in high-tech entrepreneurship by serving as a Lab Economist to the Creative Destruction Lab, University of Toronto’s fast-growing incubator for highly scalable science-based start-ups.