Ebba Laurin

Ebba Laurin is a Lecturer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK). She is responsible for the course ME1308 Operations Strategy for I, which she is redesigning for next year. Ebba supervises bachelor's and master's theses and supports colleagues across other subject areas.

Ebba har also been responsible for KTH/SSES-courses: ME2815, ME2814.She holds a first-class honours degree in Management and Organisation from the University of Glasgow (1997) and a PhD from Stockholm School of Economics (2017), with a thesis on how key account management contributes to business model innovation.

Over the past ten years, Ebba has taught at MBA, master's, bachelor's and PhD level, in both Swedish and English, at various organisations as a freelance course leader.Her expertise spans innovation and entrepreneurship, strategic and operational leadership, and business model innovation through co-creation in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Inspired by engaged scholarship, she works in an interdisciplinary way, bringing together insights from different practices, people and fields to strengthen collaboration and overcome silos.

She began her career in Internet startups in Paris and Stockholm in the late 1990s, followed by a decade-long international career in R&D at Ericsson. During a period of major technological transformation, she worked with innovation, transformation and customer orientation as Customization Director of Service Layer R&D and Solution Innovation Head of Ericsson Enterprise.