Khonika Gope is an Assistant Professor and a PhD candidate from Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, Khonika received her MBA from Goizueta Business School, Emory University, as a Fulbright Scholar. She received her MBA from IBA and BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Broadly, her research interests focus on strategy and entrepreneurship. Particularly, she is interested in exploring the impact of institutions on entrepreneurship and innovation. Khonika has received numerous prestigious awards and scholarships, such as Fulbright Scholarship, Lieberman Fellowship, Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) Ph.D. I-Award, Stanford Center for South Asia (CSA) Fellowship, Stanford King Center on Global Development Student Fellowship, Mckenzie Fellowship and Heitz Fellowship among others.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy

Stanford-Thailand Research Consortium Research Grant (with Chuck Eesley) AIS and KBank, Thailand, $155,000, 2017-2018
2. Designing Organizational Change Research Grant, Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University, $35,000, 2018-2019
3. Stanford King Center on Global Development Graduate Student Research Grant, Stanford University, $7,000, 2019-2020
4. Center for South Asia Fellowship, Stanford University, $2,500, 2017-2018
5. SEED Ph.D. I-Award, Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, Stanford University, $15,000, 2016-2017
6. Academy of Asian Business Best Advisor Award, 2021
7. Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, 2020
8. McKenzie Fellowship, 2019 - 2020
9. Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, 2018 - 2019
10. Heitz Fellowship, 2017 – 2018
11. The Medici Summer School in Management Studies Scholarship (Sponsored by MIT Sloan, HEC Paris and Bologna Business School), 2017
12. Stanfo

"The Impact of the Advertisements on the Social Networking Sites: A Case Study on the Social Networking Users of Bangladesh." UITS Journal 1, no. 2 (2012): 68-85.
2. "Factors influencing the extent of brand loyalty of toilet soap users in Bangladesh: A case study on Dhaka City." Global Journal of Management and Business Research 12, no. 15 (2012).
3. “Possible causes & solutions of traffic jam and their impact on the economy of Dhaka City." Journal of Management & Sustainability (2012): 112.
4. "Challenges of implementing e-learning for higher education in least developed countries: a case study on Bangladesh." In 2009 International Conference on Information and Multimedia Technology, pp. 155-159. IEEE, 2009.
5. "Prospects of Implementing Short Message Service (SMS) Based E-government Model in Bangladesh." In 2009 International Conference on Computer Technology and Development, vol. 1, pp. 153-157. IEEE, 2009.
6. "Introduction of Dynamic Weight Factor for Explicit Vertical Handoff." In 2008 International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, pp. 281-285. IEEE, 2008.