Francesca Grippa

Academic Title

Associate Teaching Professor

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy from University of Salento- Lecce, Italy (2007)

Bio:

Francesca Grippa is an Associate Teaching Professor and Lead Faculty in the Bachelor of Science in Management. The focus of her academic expertise is at the intersection of innovation and change management, entrepreneurship and organizational behavior. Dr. Grippa is also Faculty Affiliate within Northeastern's Global Resilience Institute.

Dr. Grippa’s research and scholarship interests include: collaborative innovation networks; entrepreneurship and change management; e-mail based social network analysis; promoting collaboration within healthcare teams; building resilient communities of patients, researchers and healthcare providers. She collaborates with research scientists at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence on themes related to Collaborative Innovation Networks (http://cci.mit.edu/coinsresearchpage.html).

Prior to joining Northeastern University, Dr Grippa was Assistant Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. She holds a PhD in e-Business Management and a Master's Degree in Business Management. In 2005 and 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Digital Business in Cambridge, MA.

Professional Experience:

Dr. Grippa has been collaborating since 2009 with the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati, Ohio, on a project aiming to improve delivery of care and increase employee engagement. In 2017 she helped CCHMC design a Knowledge Audit on Employee Engagement and Team Function. Between 2012 and 2013 she supported healthcare teams at CCHMC as they worked in the research project “Collaborative Chronic Care Network (C3N).”

Between 2007 and 2010 Dr. Grippa worked as Research Scientist for Leonardo S.p.A. (formerly Finmeccanica, an aerospace and defense company) in Rome, Italy. In the context of the Mindsh@re Project, Dr. Grippa applied social network analysis to four technology communities to evaluate their degree of connectivity relative to their performance measures.

Awards and Activities:

Dr. Grippa published several papers in peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Business Research; Computers in Human Behaviors; Knowledge Management Research & Practice; and Social Networks. She co-edited the Springer book “Collaborative Innovation Networks. Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations” and was guest editor for a special issue on “Collaborative Innovation Networks”, in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

Dr. Grippa served as Program Chair for the 7th edition of the International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs17), September 14th-17th, 2017, in Detroit, Michigan, focused on Building Resilience through Collaborative Innovation Networks.

In 2016 she was appointed member of the Team Science Advisory Board of the European Project “GEDII”: Gender Diversity Impact - Improving research and innovation through gender diversity. She also served as panelist for “Networks of (In)Equality. On the perils and promises of the data deluge” , in Barcelona, Spain.

Publications:

Forecasting managerial turnover through e-mail based social network analysis

The impact of virtual mirroring on customer satisfaction

Combining different components of intellectual capital within clinical teams

Nurturing communities of innovation. Evidence from the aerospace industry

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