Decoding how people actually work together.
Francesca Grippa is a Professor of Business Strategy and Senior Associate Dean for Research at Northeastern University's College of Professional Studies, where she also directs the Inclusive Entrepreneurship Lab.
She holds a PhD in e-Business Management from the University of Salento, completed during visiting fellowships at MIT's Center for Digital Business and Center for Collective Intelligence. She was a research affiliate at MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics group, and her scholarly work — published in Scientific Reports, the Journal of Business Research, and Computers in Human Behavior, among others — has been cited over 1,150 times and featured in Harvard Business Review.
I combine social network analysis, natural language processing, and organizational theory to ask a single question: how do groups of people become more than the sum of their parts? Twenty years of evidence from aerospace engineers, pediatric clinical teams, chronic-care networks, VC-backed founders, museum visitors, and presidential candidates.
COINs — small, self-organizing teams that achieve disproportionate creative output. Evidence from aerospace, healthcare, and venture-backed startups.
Measuring information flow through email, advice ties, sociometric badges, and semantic graphs to detect creativity, leadership, attrition, and trust.
From healthcare team function to managerial-turnover prediction — instrumenting day-to-day work so leaders can see what their org chart doesn't show.
Director of the EDA-funded Inclusive Entrepreneurship Lab. Supplier development, workforce accelerators, and equitable innovation pathways for New England communities.
Co-authored and co-edited with collaborators across MIT, Northeastern, and partner universities in Italy and Poland. Published by Springer Nature, Edward Elgar, and Palgrave Macmillan.
Federal, foundation, and university awards supporting inclusive entrepreneurship, supplier development, workforce development, and community resilience — from the U.S. Departments of Education and Commerce to the Kauffman Foundation and the European Commission.
Teaching is the result of daily research. Programs at Northeastern, D'Amore-McKim, LUM Jean Monnet, and the University of Salento. Industry partnerships with Mount Sinai, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and Leonardo S.p.A.
Lead Professor for Northeastern's Bachelor of Science in Management since 2011. Past Department Chair of Global and Social Enterprise, MBA lecturer at D'Amore-McKim, and visiting professor at LUM Jean Monnet (Bari) and the University of Salento (Lecce).
Principal Research Analyst at Mount Sinai Hospital. Research collaborator at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence since 2009. Three years building data products for chronic-care networks at Cincinnati Children's. Course instructor for MIT's "AI & Leadership" executive course via Esme Learning.
Program Chair for the International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) across four editions, and member of the NSF SBIR/STTR review panel since 2021.
Open to research collaborations in healthcare team analytics, language-driven brand measurement, and supplier-development research.