Shiva Agarwal is an Assistant Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is at the intersection of technological innovation and strategy. In her research, she explores strategies pursued by firms in a business ecosystem, with an emphasis on explaining firm performance and innovation outcomes. Recent projects focus on how firms create value within an ecosystem and how they manage tensions between value creation and appropriation.