Professor O'Connor's teaching experience includes the executive MBA program at RPI and custom in house programs at a number of well known US based companies such as Air Products, Albany International, General Motors and IBM. In the full-time MBA program, she has participated in and led the flagship team taught courses in new product development, organizational growth, and business implications of emerging technologies. She has also developed courses such as Commercializing Advanced Technologies and Corporate Entrepreneurship that build on her work in Radical Innovation, and has developed and offered Doctoral Seminars in New Product Development and Qualitative Research Methods. She won the RPI Alumni Teaching Award in 2006, and a number of her published papers have won best paper of the year award in various scholarly journals. O’Connor has consulted with many companies to help them develop capabilities for commercializing technology based on breakthrough innovations (BIs) and to develop management systems for evolving a BI capability. She and her colleagues and students continue to research the phenomenon of managing BI, and translating the results into usable tools and frameworks for students and practitioners.