Anders Richtnér is an affiliated research fellow at House of Innovation. He conducts his research at the Center for Innovation and Operations Management and at the Center for Sports and Business. He deeply cares about teaching and consistently works to imagine, design, test, and implement pioneering approaches to education. During 2014-2015 he was a visiting research scholar at Babson College and from September 2015 he holds a position as Social Innovation Fellow at Babson College.

Anders was from early 2010 part of the founding team and chairman of the board at Inmotion Intelligence, a start-up company developing training machines for functional testing and training. Anders left the company in late 2013 when the company was acquired by external investors. He has been named one of Sweden’s 33 "super-talents" by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

He is a leading inspirational lecturer within the field of innovation and business renewal. Recently, he conducted a study on excellence in teaching, that has received attention and been published. He currently works as a strategic facilitator for companies and schools across the globe, helping them develop courses and training programs, but also on issues around innovation and business development. 

His teaching at the Stockholm School of Economics is done at the undergraduate and the graduate level, but also in executive education including within-company and open enrollment programs in the areas of Innovation management and strategy, Operation management and strategy, and Entrepreneurship. He has been responsible for the development and delivery of a new curriculum at SSE concerned with Global Challenges.

His doctoral thesis on how companies implement downsizing while sustaining innovation, knowledge and creativity was awarded the EFMD/Emerald Outstanding Doctoral Award (award for best thesis in Operations & Supply Chain Management published 2004-2006, worldwide).

He has three ongoing research projects: Knowledge transfer in MNC; Measuring innovation; and Innovation through partnerships. All three are conducted in close co-operation with companies with a clear aim of contributing to their competitiveness, but also scientific knowledge. He has published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, Research Policy, R&D Management and International Journal of Operations Management.

He was a visiting scholar at Politechnico di Milano (Italy), 2002, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, 2007.