Paul Almeida is an Associate Professor and a Dean’s Faculty Fellow at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is also the Academic Director of the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA program. He received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


Professor Almeida’s research studies innovation and knowledge management, alliances and informal collaborations within and across firms, and the innovativeness of firms and regions. He has published in leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, and Research Policy as well as in scholarly books. He is currently the Chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management. He has been awarded the Georgetown’s Faculty Research Award and the Dean’s Service Award.


Paul Almeida currently teaches Executives and MBAs at Georgetown in the areas of strategy, technology and knowledge management, and international business. He has won the Joseph LeMoine Award for Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence and is a five-time winner of the Best Professor Award for the International Executive MBA program. Dr. Almeida has conducted executive education, corporate seminars and consulted with numerous organizations including Microsoft, Gucci, Rolls Royce, IBM, Bechtel, Nextel, Sprint, Kimberley Clarke, ENI, the World Bank, OPIC, US Chamber of Commerce, National Public Radio, the Department of Agriculture, FDIC, and the Social Security Administration.