
Nalin Kulatilaka
Wing Tat Lee Family Professor of Management
Nalin Kulatilaka is the Wing Tat Lee Family Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Questrom School of Business. He is a former co-director of Boston University’s Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative.
His current research interests include the role of financial markets in directing investments to clean energy technologies. Kulatilaka has published over 75 papers in scholarly journals and in a wide range of topics real options, economics of business platforms, valuation of early-stage firms, role of energy intermediaries, technology licensing and financial contracting. His book, Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World, has received wide acclaim from both academic and practitioner worlds.
With a grant from the IOC, Kulatilaka conducted a project on energy efficiency at Madison Park Village. Kulatilaka partnered with Michael Gevelber from the College of Engineering and Robert Kaufmann from the Department of Earth and Environment on this project that also received grant funding from Wells Fargo.