Data Science MBA: Big Data, Digitalization, and Strategy; With Applications in R

Alex Coad is a Professor at Waseda Business School (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan), and his research focuses mainly in the areas of firm growth, firm performance, entrepreneurship, and innovation policy. Alex has taught an MBA course on ＂Data Science for Management＂ at Waseda every year since 2020. Alex has published over 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. According to Google Scholar, Alex has over 17’000 citations and an H-index over 50. Alex is an Editor at the journals ’Research Policy’ (on the Financial Times Top 50 list of journals for Business Schools) and ’Small Business Economics’, and is an Associate Editor at ’Industrial and Corporate Change’. Previously Alex obtained a PhD from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Sant’Anna School, Pisa, Italy, and held academic positions at the Max Planck Institute (Jena, DE), Aalborg University (Denmark), SPRU (Univ. Sussex, UK), and CENTRUM Graduate Business School (Lima, Peru), and also being an Economic Analyst at the European Commission (IRI group, JRC-IPTS, Sevilla). In December 2016, Alex received the 2016 Nelson Prize at University of California Berkeley. In 2024, Alex co-authored (along with Anders Bornhäll, Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, and Alex McKelvie) the Open Access book entitled ＂Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms: Theory, Definitions, and Measurement＂, also published by Springer.