Who We Are

The Mack Institute’s strength lies in the diversity of its viewpoints.

The faculty leadership collaborate with a core team of accomplished Wharton faculty members, and our senior fellows, who are high-level executives and academic leaders experienced in innovation management.

The institute’s faculty share their considerable cross-disciplinary expertise through courses at every level. Outside of the classroom, our faculty, senior fellows, and management team organize events and direct research projects that significantly expand understanding in the field of innovation management and reflect the strategic concerns of our partners.

Faculty & Executive Leadership

Harbir Singh
Harbir Singh
Co-director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management
Faculty Director for Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business
Mack Professor of Management

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Harbir Singh has served as past Chair of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management and Chair of Wharton’s Management Department. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading management journals. His research on the role of cultural distance in explaining the choice of entry mode by multinationals won the “JIBS Decade Award”, presented by the Journal of International Business Studies. He has also received the Strategic Management Society’s Award for Outstanding Research. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, the premier professional body for research in strategy, and was named its Dean in 2015. Harbir has taught extensively in Wharton’s multiple degree programs. He is on the Academic Advisory Board of the Indian School of Business, and has been a Visiting Professor at the London Business School and Bocconi University, Italy. He has worked with companies such as Glaxo Smithkline, Verizon, Cisco, and the Aditya Birla Group on issues relating to strategy, alliances and acquisitions.

Research Areas

Strategies for corporate acquisitions; corporate governance; joint ventures; management buyouts; corporate restructuring.

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Nicolaj Siggelkow
Nicolaj Siggelkow
Co-director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management
David M. Knott Professor

More about Nicolaj Siggelkow

Professor Siggelkow has been the recipient of multiple MBA and Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Awards, including the Class of 1984 Award presented to the faculty member with the highest teaching rating in the MBA classroom, the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, the Wharton Award, and the Wharton Graduate Association Student Choice Award. His research has been published in the leading management journals. In 2008, he received the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier. Nicolaj is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Academy of Management Perspectives.

Research Areas

Competitive strategy; evolution of fit; firms as systems of interconnected choices.

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Christian Terwiesch
Christian Terwiesch
Co-director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management
Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics

More about Christian Terwiesch

Christian Terwiesch is a Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also is a Senior Fellow at Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. His research on Operations Management and on R&D and Innovation Management appears in many of the leading academic journals. Professor Terwiesch has researched with and consulted for various organizations, including a project on concurrent engineering for BMW, supply chain management for Intel and Medtronic, and product customization for Dell. Most of his current work relates to healthcare and innovation management. In the innovation space, recent projects include the management of the clinical development portfolio at Merck, the development of open innovation systems, and the design of patient centered care processes in the VA hospital system. Professor Terwiesch is the co-author of Matching Supply with Demand, a widely used text-book in Operations Management. His latest book, Innovation Tournaments, features a novel, process-based approach to innovation that has led to innovation tournaments in organizations around the world.

Research Areas

Innovation Management; analyzing operational performance; lean operations; R&D management; innovation portfolios; various industries, including hospitals, pharmaceuticals, online stores, semi-conductors, financial services

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Valery Yakubovich
Executive Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management
Senior Fellow, the Wharton Center for Human Resources
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More about Valery Yakubovich

Dr. Valery Yakubovich oversees all the Mack Institute’s programs and day-to-day operations. He focuses on bolstering synergy between the research, teaching, and practice of innovation management within the School, fostering dialogue between corporations and academics, and connecting with our corporate and regional partners’ innovation ecosystems.

Previously, he served as the founding Executive Director of Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab, where he oversaw the development of an innovative IT, data, and institutional infrastructure for large-scale open collaborative social sciences. He has diverse academic experience ranging from leading a national summer work program for university students in the former Soviet Union to conducting research, teaching, consulting, and fundraising at major academic and corporate institutions in the US and Europe. Dr. Yakubovich was on the Management Faculty of the Wharton School for several years, as well as the ESSEC Business School, where he was a full Professor of Management.

Dr. Yakubovich holds an MS in mathematics from Moscow State University, an MA in sociology from the University of Warwick, and a PhD in sociology from Stanford University. His research on organizational innovations and social networks has appeared in top academic and practitioner journals, including American Sociological ReviewHuman RelationsOrganization ScienceHarvard Business ReviewCalifornia Management Review, and been featured in mass media, including the Financial Times and the New York Times.

John Paul MacDuffie
John Paul MacDuffie
Director, Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation (PVMI), Mack Institute for Innovation Management
Professor of Management
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More about John Paul MacDuffie

John Paul MacDuffie is Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation (PVMI) at Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. PVMI carries on the work of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP), the research network founded at M.I.T. to study the challenges facing the global automotive industry, which Professor MacDuffie co-directed from 2001-2012. He received his B.A. degree from Harvard University and his PhD degree from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. His global research on the determinants of high-performance manufacturing is featured centrally in the books The Machine That Changed the World and After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry. He is a founding board member of the Industry Studies Association and a member of the Automotive Experts Group at the Federal Reserve Bank.

Research Areas

Links between corporate strategy and human resource management systems, managing people over distance, diffusion of management practices, flexible/lean production systems, high-involvement work systems, product and organizational architecture, organizational learning and collaboration

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Faculty Emeritus in Residence

George Day
George S. Day
Faculty Emeritus in Residence
Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor Emeritus

More about George Day

George Day is the Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor Emeritus of Marketing. He has been a consultant to numerous corporations such as General Electric, IBM, Metropolitan Life, Marriott, Unilever, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, W.L.Gore and Associates, Coca-Cola, Boeing, LG Corp., Best Buy and Medtronic. He is the past chairman of the American Marketing Association. His primary areas of activity are marketing, the management of emerging technologies, organic growth and innovation, and competitive strategies in global markets. Dr. Day has authored eighteen books in the areas of marketing and strategic management. He has won ten best article award and one best book award, and two of his articles were among the top 25 most influential articles in marketing science in the past 25 years. In 2011 he was chosen as one of eleven “Legends in Marketing.”

Research Areas

Competitive strategies in global markets; new product development and management; market structure and competitive analysis; strategic planning processes and methods; marketing management.

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William Hamilton
William F. Hamilton
Ralph Landau Professor Emeritus of Management and Technology

More about William Hamilton

Dr. William Hamilton is the founder and Director of The Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology and emeritus Landau Professor of Management and Technology in the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Hamilton joined the faculty of the Wharton School in 1967. He has taught and conducted research in the areas of strategic management, technological innovation and entrepreneurship, decision analysis and corporate planning and policy. He has also received a number of teaching awards, including the Wharton School Anvil Award for Teaching Excellence, the University’s Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, Wharton’s Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching and Wharton’s Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Research Areas

Technology strategy and planning; entrepreneurship; technological innovation

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Jitendra Singh
Jitendra V. Singh
Faculty Emeritus in Residence

 

More about Jitendra Singh

Jitendra V. Singh is currently Michael Jebsen Professor of Business, School of Business and Management at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong. From 2014-21016, he was Dean of HKUST’s business school. Previously, he was the Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Vice Dean of International Academic Affairs at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching interests have in the past focus on strategy and organization, with a specific recent interest in emerging multinationals and business leadership in India. He has published about fifty papers in most of the leading management journals. He has earlier served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization. He currently serves on the Asia Pacific Advisory Council of AACSB International and the Global Network Asia Advisory Board of EFMD Global Network. Jitendra has lectured worldwide to both executive and academic audiences. He has also been a consultant and adviser, having served on multiple boards of directors and advisory boards in US, India, Singapore and Hong Kong, both for non-profit and private corporations, including startups and established public companies.

Research Areas

Indian business leadership; developing firm capabilities; organizational evolution; organizational change

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Sidney G Winter
Sidney G. Winter
Deloitte and Touche Emeritus Professor of Management

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Sidney Winter is the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, Emeritus, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His career has included a total of about 8 years in policy research or government roles, including four years as Chief Economist of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The rest has been spent in academe, including tenured positions at three major universities, often with one foot in the economics department and the other in public policy or management. In 2008 he became the fourth internationally-known scholar to receive the Viipuri Prize in Strategic Management, awarded in Lappeenranta, Finland, and was named the Distinguished Lecturer of the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Strategic Management Society, and a member the Academy of Management and other scholarly organizations.

Research Areas

Firm capabilities; technological change; competitive advantage

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Core Team

Raffi Amit
Raphael (Raffi) Amit
Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship
Professor of Management

More about Raffi Amit

Dr. Amit is the Academic Director of the Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs which encompasses all of Wharton’s entrepreneurial programs. As well, he co-founded and leads the Wharton Global Family Alliance (WGFA), a unique academic-family business partnership established to enhance the marketplace advantage and the social wealth creation contributions of global families through thought leadership, knowledge transfer and the sharing of ideas and best practices among influential global families. Dr. Amit holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics, and received his PhD from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Dr. Amit’s current research and teaching interests center on family business management, governance, and finance, on venture capital and private equity investments, on the design of business models and on business strategy. He has published extensively in leading academic journals and is frequently quoted in a broad range of practitioner outlets.

Research Areas

Entrepreneurship; family business; strategic management; venture capital financing; eBusiness

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David Asch
David A. Asch, MD, MBA

Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Health Care Management, and Operations and Information Management
Executive Director, Center for Health Care Innovation

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Dr. David Asch is Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School, Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School and Professor of Medicine , Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is Executive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Innovation. From 1998 to 2012 he was the Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania—a program that attracts approximately $125 million in research grant funding each year, largely from the NIH, making it one of the largest health policy research organizations in the world. He co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Asch has extensive experience studying the clinical and economic decisions patients and providers make. Dr. Asch is the recipient of the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth (1997), the Outstanding Paper of the Year Award from the Society for Medical Decision Making (1997), the Nellie Westerman Prize from the American Federation for Medical Research (1998), the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Federation for Medical Research (1999), the Robert C. Witt Research Award for the best paper published by the American Risk and Insurance Association (2000), the Mid-Career Research Mentorship Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine (2004), the VA Under Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research (2008), the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (2009), and the John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from the Society of General Internal Medicine (2010). He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Asch received an M.D. from Cornell University, a M.B.A. from The Wharton School and an A.B. from Harvard University.

Research Areas

Clinician and patient decision making; health care management; health policy; medical ethics; physician executives; technology assessment; behavioral economics

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David Hsu
David Hsu
Richard A. Sapp Professor
Professor of Management

More about David Hsu

David Hsu is the Richard A. Sapp Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Stanford University with undergraduate majors in economics and political science. After a few years working in industry, he received his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, followed by his PhD in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hsu’s research interests are in entrepreneurial innovation and management. Within that domain, he has investigated topics such as intellectual property management, start-up innovation, technology commercialization strategy, and venture capital. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Finance, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy. He serves as a department editor of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation department of Management Science. In 2008, Hsu was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship. At Wharton, he teaches two MBA electives, Entrepreneurship and Technology Strategy. At Penn, Hsu is Associate Faculty Director of the Weiss Tech House, which encourages and supports students in the creation, development, and commercialization of innovative technologies.

Research Areas

Intellectual property rights; start-up innovation; strategies for commercializing technological innovation; venture capital

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Vijay Kumar
Rahul Kapoor

David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School
Professor of Management
Chairperson, Management Department

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Rahul Kapooris the David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In his research, Rahul focuses on the management of industry disruption and ecosystems related to new technologies and business models. He has published numerous articles on these topics in leading peer-reviewed and practitioner journals from a perspective of both established firms and start-ups. He is the past Chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, and is on the Editorial Boards of Organization Science and Strategy Science. At Wharton, Rahul teaches undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD courses on technology and innovation strategy. He is also an active contributor to Wharton’s Executive Education, teaching in both the customized and open enrollment programs.

Rahul has received several awards for his research and teaching including the inaugural Academy of Management (Technology and Innovation Management Division) Emerging Scholar Award, the Strategic Management Journal Best Paper Prize, and Wharton Teaching Excellence Award over multiple years. He has also advised and consulted for several firms with respect to launching new innovation initiatives. Prior to joining academia, he spent over 7 years in the high-tech industry where he worked for Texas Instruments and was involved with two startups, one of which he co-founded.

Research Areas

Innovation; business ecosystems, technology strategy, industry evolution

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Vijay Kumar
Vijay Kumar
Nemirovsky Family Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science
UPS Foundation Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM)
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)

More about Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University. His research expertise includes control systems, robotics, and mechanical systems, and he is a member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute (PGFI), and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS). He was honored as a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2005 and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2003 and was awarded the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1996 and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991.

Vijay studies collective behaviors in biological and robotic systems. He and his group design novel architectures, create abstractions for systems of interacting individuals, and develop new algorithms for cooperating robots. The overarching themes in his research include modeling nature and developing bio-inspired architectures and algorithms, understanding group/individual dynamics, and the design and composition of controllers for robust, scaleable autonomous systems. Vijay’s key challenges include operation in unstructured, dynamic environments, integration of control, communication and perception, and scaling down to smaller sizes with limited actuation, sensing, and computational resources.

Research Areas

Control systems; robotics; mechanical systems

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Dan Levinthal
Daniel A. Levinthal
Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Strategy
Chair, Management Department

More about Daniel Levinthal

Professor Levinthal is the Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Strategy and the Chair of the Management Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a past Editor of Organization Science, a co-editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, and is the founding editor of Strategy Science. His research interests focus on issues of organizational adaptation and industry evolution, particularly in the context of technological change. Professor Levinthal completed his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University in 1979, and earned his PhD in Economics, Business, and Public Policy from the
Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in 1985.

Research Areas

Industry evolution, organizational learning, technological competition

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Brian Litt
Brian Litt
Professor of Neurology and Bioengineering (BE)
Director, Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania

More about Brian Litt

Brian’s laboratory focuses on translating NeuroEngineering research directly into patient care through a collaboration between Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Engineering. While epilepsy is the lab’s core focus, its multidisciplinary efforts span a variety of scientific and clinical interests including functional neurosurgery, network and computational neuroscience, movement disorders, intra-operative and ICU monitoring, and other brain network disorders. Specific areas of focus include automated implantable devices, understanding how seizures begin and spread, interpreting multi-scale neurosignals through machine learning, mapping functional networks and circuits in human brain, recording oscillations and modulating them via computer controlled electrical stimulation, and novel electronics technology for high fidelity electrophysiologic recording and brain modulation Dr. Litt is active as an active clinician, medical entrepreneur and inventor. He is also a member of the Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME) and holds an MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Research Areas

Computational neuroscience; experimental neuroscience

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Lori Rosenkopf
Lori Rosenkopf
Simon and Midge Palley Professor; Professor of Management
Vice Dean and Director, Wharton Undergraduate Division

More about Lori Rosenkopf

Dr. Lori Rosenkopf is the Vice Dean and Director of the Wharton Undergraduate Division and a Simon and Midge Palley Professor of Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in Management of Organizations from Columbia University, an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. She has worked for Eastman Kodak as an industrial engineer and internal consultant as well as for AT&T Bell Laboratories as a systems engineer in new service development. Lori joined Wharton in 1993 and teaches courses on innovation, high-tech entrepreneurship, and networks to executives, MBA students, and undergraduates. Lori is a member of the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. She has served on the executive committees of both the Organization and Management Theory and the Technology and Innovation Management divisions of the Academy of Management.

Research Areas

Technological and organizational evolution; innovation diffusion; learning in interorganizational networks

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Karl Ulrich
Karl T. Ulrich
CIBC Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurship and e-Commerce
Vice Dean of Innovation

More about Karl Ulrich

Karl T. Ulrich is the CIBC Professor of Entrepreneurship and e-Commerce at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research is focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and product development. He is the co-author of Product Design and Development (4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2008), a textbook used by a quarter of a million students worldwide. His most recent book is Innovation Tournaments. He is the winner of many teaching awards, including the Anvil Award, the Miller-Sherrerd Award, and the Excellence in Teaching Award at The Wharton School. At Penn, he co-founded the Weiss Tech House and the Integrated Product Design Program, two institutions fostering innovation in the university community. In addition to his academic work, Professor Ulrich has led dozens of innovation efforts for medical devices, tools, computer peripherals, food products, web-based services, and sporting goods. As a result of this work, he holds more than 20 patents. Professor Ulrich is a founder of Terrapass Inc. which the New York Times identified as one of the most noteworthy ideas of 2005, and he is a designer of the Xootr scooter, which Business Week recognized as one of the 50 coolest products of the 21st Century. Professor Ulrich holds bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT.

Research Areas

Innovation; product design and development; entrepreneurship

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Academic Senior Fellows


Hessam Bavafa
Hessam Bavafa
Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

More about Hessam Bavafa

Hessam Bavafa is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wisconsin School of Business. He is an affiliate faculty of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.  

His recent projects, based on econometric analysis and stochastic models, have focused on innovative technologies and service delivery models (e.g., telemedicine), people-centric and behavioral factors that affect performance (e.g., fatigue), healthcare resource management (e.g., panel sizing and revenue management), and quality management (e.g., pharmaceutical manufacturing). His research has been published in academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, and Annals of Family Medicine.   

He serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science, Decision Sciences, and Health Care Management Science, a Senior Editor for Production & Operations Management, and a Guest Associate Editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.  

He has worked with leading healthcare organizations such as the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the Provincial Health Services Authority of British Columbia, Veterans Health Administration, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and British Columbia Children’s Hospital. He held a visiting position as Senior Innovation Strategist at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation. He is also a moderator for the Health & Wellness Stream of the Creative Destruction Lab, which is a nonprofit organization focused on scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based startups.  

Research Areas

Health care operations; econometric analysis; stochastic modeling; pharmaceutical quality management; innovation

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Olivier Chatain
Olivier Chatain
Professor, Strategy and Business Policy, HEC Paris

More about Olivier Chatain

Olivier Chatain holds a diploma from ESSEC, an MSc from the University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, and an MSc and a PhD from INSEAD. 

Olivier Chatain studies how firms interact with their competitive environment, with an emphasis on developing the value-based foundations of business strategy. He has applied and further developed these methods to study how client-specific value creation affects firm strategy and the deployment of their key resources. Moreover, his research has investigated how firms shape their competitive environment thanks to non-market strategies and interventions in markets for strategic resources. His current research builds on these insights to understand value creation in business ecosystems as well as how firms increasingly interact with state and non-state actors beyond the economic sphere. 

His research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. Prior to joining HEC Paris, Olivier a faculty member of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation received the AOM’s Business Policy and Strategy division Outstanding Dissertation Award. 

At HEC Paris, Olivier teaches competitive strategy to MBA, MSc and PhD students Olivier is an editorial board member of Strategy Science. 

Research Areas

Competitive strategy; Formal models applied to business strategy; Non-market strategies

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Joydeep Chatterjee
Joydeep Chatterjee
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Global Strategic Management, Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey

More about Joydeep Chatterjee

Dr. Chatterjee received his PhD in Strategic Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and an MBA in International Business from the George Washington University. At the George Washington University, he won the Global Leaders, and Potomac Fellowships and at Wharton he received the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and Center for Leadership & Change Management Research Fellowships. Before embarking on his academic career, Dr. Chatterjee worked as a Financial Analyst at the World Bank in Washington, DC and as a Software Consultant at Cognizant Technology Solutions in India and the U.S.

Research Areas

Global competition; dynamic capability development; evolution of corporate scope with special emphasis on the Information Technology Services sector

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Gary Dushnitsky
Gary Dushnitsky
Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

More about Gary Dushnitsky

Dr. Gary Dushnitsky’s work focuses on the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation. He explores the shifting landscape of entrepreneurial finance, exploring such topics as corporate venture capital, crowdfunding and angel investors. His research has appeared in leading academic journals, including Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and Nature Biotechnology.

He advises corporations in the high-tech, food, clean technology and pharmaceutical sectors on a host of corporate venturing issues, and has been involved in several industry reports, as well as keynotes and panels such as the YPO, World Economic Forum, OECD, EVCA, BVCA and others. His studies have been covered in the business media, including Businessweek, Dow Jones News, Entrepreneur magazine and the Financial Times.

Research Areas

Corporate venturing; Entrepreneurial finance; Crowdfunding; Angel investors

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Anuja Gupta
Anuja Gupta
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Healthcare Business; Director of MBA program; Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Business, University of the Sciences

More about Anuja Gupta

Anuja Gupta earned her PhD in Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and obtained her MBA (PGDM) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. Her undergraduate studies were in Economics (Honors), and she ranked first in the university among all social sciences and was granted the University Gold Medal. Anuja’s research interests are in the areas of Strategy and Leadership. Her current research analyzes firm adaptation and innovation in dynamic environments, the globalization of emerging economy firms, and leadership in emerging economies. She has received several grants for her research from the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, the Center for Leadership and Change Management, and the Reginald H. Jones Center, all at Wharton. Recently, she (along with Prof. Mauro Guillen) received a grant from Wharton’s Global Initiatives Research Program to study Indian multinationals and their globalization strategies. Anuja has presented her research at several global conferences and has papers under review at top tier management journals. She is also a trained Executive Coach.

Research Areas

Strategy, leadership; capability development and adaptation, technological innovation, global strategy, and emerging economy multinationals

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Po-Hsuan Hsu
Po-Hsuan Hsu
Tsing Hua Chair Professor and Yushan Fellow, College of Technology Management in National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)

More about Po-Hsuan Hsu

Po-Hsuan Hsu is currently a Tsing Hua Chair Professor and Yushan Fellow at the College of Technology Management in National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. Prior to returning to Taiwan, he was an assistant professor of finance at University of Connecticut, and a professor at the University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University in 2007.  

He is currently a Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a TPRI Fellow of Technology & Policy Research Initiative (TPRI) of Boston University, and was a Batten Fellow of Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of University Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He is currently an associate editor for Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Journal of Banking and Finance, as well as a guest editor and an advisory editor of Research Policy. His research has been published in leading academic journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, RAND Journal of Economics, Management Science, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Research Policy, Contemporary Accounting Research, etc. He has been active in organizing conferences and seminars in innovation economics and finance, such as the AIEA-NBER Conference, Darden-Cambridge Judge-HKU FBE Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference, the AIEA Seminar, Taiwan Symposium on Innovation Economics and Entrepreneurship, and NTHU Symposium on Sustainable Finance and Economics. 

Research Areas

innovation economics, asset pricing, sustainable finance, and financial econometrics. 

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Sarah Kaplan
Sarah Kaplan
Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE); Professor of Strategic Management; Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy, Rotman School of Management

More about Sarah Kaplan

Sarah Kaplan is Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy and Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. She is author of the business bestseller, Creative Destruction, and her latest book The 360º Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation, both of which address the challenges of innovation and organizational change in our society.

Formerly a professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (where she remains a Senior Fellow), and a consultant for nearly a decade at McKinsey & Company in New York, she completed her PhD research at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Her current work focuses on applying an innovation lens to understanding the challenges for achieving gender equality and other social goods.

Research Areas

Biotechnology; fiber optics; personal digital assistant; financial services; nanotechnology; gender and other forms of inequality

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Thomas Klueter
Thomas Klueter
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Analysis of Business Problems, IESE Business School, University of Navarra

More about Thomas Klueter

Thomas holds a PhD in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from University of Pennsylvania, an MA from University of Pennsylvania and University College Dublin and a BA Science from Duale Hochschule Baden-Wuertemberg. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he was a financial analyst and project manager at IBM and JP Morgan. In those functions, he was involved in several worldwide projects in corporate finance and business development.

Research Areas

Thomas’ research interests lie at the intersection of strategic entrepreneurship and innovation. He focuses on how established and emerging firms manage technological change and the strategies firms pursue to develop and commercialize new technologies. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Nature Biotechnology, Organization Science and Research Policy among others.

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Felipe Monteiro
Felipe Monteiro
Academic Director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index; Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy, INSEAD

More about Felipe Monteiro

Professor Monteiro received eight times the INSEAD Deans’ Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching. Before joining INSEAD, he was a standing faculty member at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where, during four consecutive years (2009-2012), he received the “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Teaching Award for his outstanding contributions and commitment to educational excellence in the MBA core curriculum. In 2011, he also received the Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award. Prior to that, Professor Monteiro was a Fellow, and an award-winning teacher, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has also worked as a Senior Researcher at the Harvard Business School’s Latin American Research and as an Adjunct Professor at IBMEC Business School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he won seven teaching awards between 1998 and 2002. Prior to joining academia, Felipe was a Senior Analyst at Banco do Brasil acting as an advisor to foreign companies investing in Brazil. 

At INSEAD, Professor Monteiro is the Academic Director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI). Launched for the first time in 2013, the GTCI is an annual benchmarking report that measures the ability of countries to compete for talent. Professor Monteiro is also the Director of the PGA-Programa de Gestao Avancada (an Advanced Management Program in partnership with FDC-Brazil) for Brazilian CEOs, owners and top executives. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School.  

His research, which was published in top journals (Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, among others), focuses on global open innovation and the role of boundary spanners Professor Monteiro received important awards from the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business and the Strategic Management Society . His case studies about TAG Heuer, EBX Group, Fashion Forward Dubai and ENEL were the winners of best case awards in 2018, 2019 and 2021. His new book on Global Strategic Management was published by Bloomsbury in early 2023.

He is part of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Expert Network about Future of the Digital Economy and Society; Latin America and; Fourth Industrial Revolution. He was also a member of the WEF’s Advisory Group on “The Emerging Best Practices of Brazilian Globalizers.”

Professor Monteiro consults and gives talks for companies and governments worldwide. He has worked with leading organizations including Banco do Brasil, the Brazilian Confederation of Industries (CNI), British Telecom, DSM, EBX Group, Embraer, Emirates Airline, ENEL, FC Barcelona, Gerdau, Grupo Elektra, Haier, IBM, Merck, Microsoft, Related Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Samsung, Stefanini, TAG Heuer, Telefonica, WEF, and YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization). He has taught, written cases and/or done research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, England, France, Italy, Mexico, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and the United States. 

Professor Monteiro obtained his Ph.D. in Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He also has a LL.B. (JD equivalent) degree, cum laude, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a M.Sc. in Business Administration from COPPEAD/UFRJ, Brazil and a MRes in Business Studies from London Business School.  

Research Areas

Global knowledge sourcing; multinational management; knowledge sharing processes; global innovation management; emerging markets multinationals; field research methods

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Charlotte Ren
Charlotte Ren
Robert A. Fox Leadership International Faculty Director and Professor of Practice in Strategy and Innovation, Partnership for Innovation, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Leadership, and Organization, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

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Charlotte Ren is Robert A. Fox Leadership International Faculty Director and Professor of Practice in Strategy and Innovation at Partnership for Innovation, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Leadership, and Organization, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. Previously she was on the faculty of Purdue University (Krannert), University of Pennsylvania (SP2), and Temple University (Fox). Her research focuses on innovation management and competitive strategy and has been published in top journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Management. She was the 2008 recipient of the Inaugural IDEA Award (Research Promise) from the AOM’s Entrepreneurship Division.

She received numerous teaching awards including the 2017 Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the AOM’s Entrepreneurship Division and the 2019 Faculty of the Year Award (full-time MBA program) from Temple’s Fox School of Business. She served as a Representative-at-Large for the AOM (Entrepreneurship Division) and the Strategic Management Society (Competitive Strategy Interest Group).

Charlotte holds a Ph.D. in Management and an M.A. in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a bachelor’s degree in International Politics and a minor degree in Law from Peking University (China).

Research Areas

Competitive strategy, innovation management, corporate entrepreneurship, organizational learning

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Raj Srivastava
Raj Srivastava
Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation, Indian School of Business

More about Raj Srivastava

Rajendra Srivastava is the Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation at the Indian School of Business (ISB) (Hyderabad & Mohali) and as Professor Emeritus at Singapore Management University (SMU). He has served Dean at ISB, as Provost and Deputy President at SMU, and as Senior Associate Dean at both the University of Texas at Austin and at Emory University. He is Senior Advisor to the Dean for ISB’s Centre for Business Innovation and Executive Fellows Program in Management.

Raj has been instrumental in guiding the growth of ISB and SMU both in terms of size and global academic recognition. His contributions to the field of Marketing have been recognized by American Marketing Association which appointed him as a 2020 AMA Fellow. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation (Wharton), and the Institute for Studies in Business Markets (ISBM) at Penn State.

A pracademic (practical academic) at heart, he is a strong proponent for inter-disciplinary research and collaboration between industry, government and academic. He is leading research on Business Innovation and Digital Transformation at ISB’s Centre for Business Innovation. He is recognized globally for his work on business models integrating (1) strategy development with (2) implementation via operations and market-facing business processes while (3) keeping an eye on financial performance and market value. He is recognized globally for his work on brand equity and the value of off-balance sheet intangible assets (brands, IP, market channels and ecosystems) and marketing accountability.

A global thought leader, he has been a visiting scholar at leading academic institutions and has consulted and provided high potential executive training across North and Latin America, Europe, Asia (India, China, Russia, and SE Asia), South Africa and Australia to over 50 leading global corporations. He serves on corporate and academic advisory boards.

He holds a B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, MS (Industrial Engineering) from the University of Rhode Island, and MBA and Ph.D. in Business from the University of Pittsburgh.

Research Areas

Marketing metrics; Brand management; Customer management; Marketing strategy

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Gita Surie
Gita Surie
Professor of Management, Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, Adelphi University

More about Gita Surie

Gita Surie is a Professor of Management at Adelphi University’s Robert B. Willumstad School of Business. Professor Surie’s research interests include technological innovation, organizational evolution, globalization, entrepreneurship, emerging economies, and leadership. In 2013, she was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru senior scholar award to do research on renewable energy in rural communities in India. She is the author of the 2009 book Knowledge, Organizational Evolution, and Market Creation: The Globalization of Indian Firms from Steel to Software (Edward Elgar Publishing); and co-author of “Southern Asia Cluster: The Organizational and Societal Worldviews and their Foundations” (Chapter in Creating Performing Organizations, New Delhi: Sage Publications). Professor Surie holds a PhD in Applied Economics and Management from the Wharton School, a master’s in Economics from Columbia University and a B.A. with honors from Loreto College, Calcutta University.

Research Areas

Business policy and strategic management of knowledge intensive and multinational firms; globalization strategies of developing economy firms; management of technological innovation; new organizational forms; innovation systems and economic development; leadership and ethics

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Andy Wu
Andy Wu
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

More about Andy Wu

Andy Wu is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He conducts research on strategies for how technology entrepreneurs internally organize for innovation and externally mobilize resources to achieve scale. He received the HBS Wyss Award, HBS Williams Award, Poets & Quants 40 Under 40, and Penn Prize in recognition of commitment and excellence in teaching and mentoring.

Professor Wu is a founder, director, investor, or advisor of several technology ventures. He holds several patents across rapid prototyping, medical imaging, robotics, and e-commerce.

He received a PhD and MS in Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, he received a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. He earned his SB in economics and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Burchard Scholar.

Research Areas

Venture Capital; Corporate Venture Capital; Alliances; Angel Investors; Software; SBIR

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Minyuan Zhao
Minyuan Zhao
Associate Professor of Strategy, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

More about Minyuan Zhao

Minyuan Zhao is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Minyuan’s research examines the interactions between firm strategy and external environment in a global context. Her work on multinational innovation and intellectual property (IP) strategies has been published in top journals such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies. Prior to joining Olin, Minyuan was on the faculty of the Wharton School (UPenn), Ross School of Business (Michigan), and Carlson School of Management (Minnesota). She currently serves as Associate Editor at Strategic Management Journal. Minyuan was the recipient of the 2012 Teaching Excellence Award from the Michigan EMBA program, the 2013 Best Educator Award from the NUS-UCLA EMBA program, the 2018 Teaching Excellence Award from the Wharton School, and the 2022 Reid Teaching Award from WashU’s EMBA program. She had work experience in entrepreneurship, government think tank, and the automotive industry. 

Research Areas

Strategies for innovation and intellectual property; global strategy; global business environment; emerging markets

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Industry Senior Fellows


Alok Baridya
Alok Bardiya
Growth, Investments & M&A, WSO2

More about Alok Bardiya

Alok has been in the tech industry in the US and India for over 25 years and has been an investor, board member, and also led businesses and functions. 

He is currently an investment committee member and a venture partner at Social Alpha, an incubation and seed investment platform focusing on climate and social impact startups. Social Alpha has incubated and invested in 200+ startups and is backed by various top corporates and foundations. He also leads investments, M&A and growth strategy at WSO2, a pre-IPO open source software company with customers in over 90+ countries across the world. He continues to stay involved with startups and is a board member with BoardPac a SaaS startup. He is also associated with the Indian School of Business. 

Prior to this he led Tata Communications’ IoT subsidiary (TCCS Ltd.) as the CEO. He has worked with the Tata group at different points in his career, starting in 1997 as a part of Tata Administrative Service (TAS) which is the Group’s rotational leadership development program. He was also a VP and led Tata Communications cloud and managed services business and the marketing function from 2008 – 2010. 

From 2010 to 2017 he led Cisco’s VC arm for India and Asia Pacific. During this time he and his team invested and managed a total portfolio of close to $80M in investments across early and growth stage tech ventures as well as LP positions in VC funds. 

Post his MBA from Wharton in 2003, he worked in the US for several years, starting with Bain & Co. and then as a Director, marketing strategy and product management with BellSouth. 

Alok holds a B.Tech in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MBA (Honors) from Wharton. 

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Junichi Endo
Jon DeGaynor
President & CEO, Stoneridge (former)

More about John DeGaynor

Jon DeGaynor, WG 93, has been in the automotive industry for more than 35 years.   He has spent a large part of his career at the intersection between operations, technology, and strategy working to bring new technology and transformation to multiple organizations.  He has held leadership roles in multiple levels of the industry supply chain – OEM, Tier 1, Tier 2 and aftermarket companies.  His varied experiences have provided he and his family the opportunity to live in France and Asia during his career. 

He is currently the Executive Chairman of Racing and Performance, Inc, an automotive performance systems supplier in the aftermarket space.   He is also a strategic advisor to multiple small companies that are working to refine and transform their strategies and product portfolios.  Prior to his retirement in Feb 2023, he was president and chief executive officer of Stoneridge, Inc. since March 2015.  In that time, the 58-year-old company was transformed in areas of product strategy and portfolio, organizational structure, leadership capability and financial performance.  The transformation led to the creation of segment leading safety systems (MirrorEye), industry recognition (Automotive News PACE Award in 2020), commercial success ($3.4B business backlog and growth of 9% CAGR over next 5 years) and significant shareholder value creation. 

Prior to joining Stoneridge, he was the vice president, strategic planning, and innovation of Guardian Industries Corp., (“Guardian”), a manufacturer of industrial glass and other building products for commercial, residential, and automotive applications. From 20082014, he served as the vice president, business development and managing director of Asia for SRG Global, Inc., a Guardian company and manufacturer of chrome plated parts for the automotive, commercial truck and consumer goods industries.   He was the chief operating officer, international for Autocam Corporation, a manufacturer of precisionmachine components for the automotive industry, from 20052008.  At the start of his career, he held positions of increasing responsibility with General Motor and Delphi Corporation from 19882005. 

He has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.  

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Junichi Endo
Junichi Endo
Senior Vice President, M&S Japan-ASEAN, Nissan Motor Co.

More about Junichi Endo

Junichi Endo, WG93, has been in the automotive industries more than 30 years and is well-versed in the total management of upstream to downstream automobile industry. His upstream planning includes management of product planning, engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing. In addition, he oversees marketing & sales, aftersales parts and accessories as well as customer services. 

He is currently the Senior Vice President in charge of Marketing & Sales Japan-ASEAN at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.  Prior to the current position, from 2011 to 2022, he was President and CEO of NMKV, a fifty-fifty joint venture between Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors to plan and develop mini cars in Japan. In 2022, successfully launched new Nissan Sakura and Mitsubishi ek X EV which has not only integrated Nissan’s advanced technologies with Mitsubishi Motors’ expertise in manufacturing Kei cars, but also the two companies’ combined electrification technologies.  In 2019, NMKV successfully launched new Nissan Dayz and Mitsubishi ek Wagon in Japan by fusing strengths of Nissan’s engineering & advanced technologies and Mitsubishi’s optimized manufacturing for mini-cars.  This was the first case of the alliance between Nissan and Mitsubishi and these two models won Car of the Year for 2020 by the Automotive Researchers’ and Journalists’ Conference of Japan (RJC) and 2019-2020 Japan Car of the Year’s Small Mobility award.   

Prior to establishing NMKV, from 2007 to 2011, he was the Senior Vice President in charge of Global Marketing and Sales, Global Aftersales, as well as Global Conversion and Accessory at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in Yokohama, Japan. He also served on the Executive Committee in Nissan as the youngest Japanese member. 

On the academic side in 2013, he introduced Nissan to the Wharton Global Modular Course (GMC), in which he wrote “Discussion paper on Nissan’s Global Supply Chain Management” to highlight the roles of mother plants and the global production engineering center. In 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019, he orchestrated and instructed the Wharton GMC’s course, as a lecturer in which he taught: “Global Supply Chain Management in Japan” and “Sustaining National Competitiveness by Leveraging Capabilities: Japan’s Approach, Progress, and Future Challenges.” 

Research Areas

Automotive product planning, management of engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, marketing and sales, and aftersales and services

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Yann Lamarche
Yann Lamarch
‎General Director Europe, Emovi

More about Yann Lamarche

Yann Lamarche has been a specialist in international affairs and life sciences for more than 12 years. He was the life sciences principal advisor of Investissement Quebec International for more than 5 years. He was also the economic affairs advisor to the Quebec government office in New England. These two roles allowed him to support the international business strategies of more than 100 life sciences companies. 

Yann Lamarche is a graduate of HEC Montreal with a master’s degree in international business with his thesis subject about the influence of international certifications on the internationalization strategies of medical technology startups. 

Since 2022, he has been general Manager International markets- business development and marketing for Emovi, an innovative Quebec medical technology company that manufactures the KneeKG. The KneeKG system is the first technology to accurately measure dynamic 3D alignment and provides objective data suitable for evaluating 3D knee movement for patients who have impaired movement functions due to an orthopedic cause. 

He is also consultant for the CTS which is the main medical technology business accelerator in Quebec, and which has more than 20 companies in their portfolio. His role mainly consists of supporting the CTS in their international strategy and program.   

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Michael Mandel
Vikram Limaye
‎Former Managing Director and CEO, National Stock Exchange of India Limited

More about Vikram Limaye

Vikram Limaye was the Managing Director and CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) for 5 years up to July 16, 2022. NSE is the largest exchange in India, the world’s largest derivatives exchange in terms of volume of contracts traded and in the top four exchanges globally for cash market trades.

Prior to joining NSE, he was the Managing Director & CEO of IDFC Limited, a diversified, publicly listed financial services conglomerate that was involved in infrastructure lending and advisory, commercial banking, investment banking and institutional broking, private equity and asset management. He started his professional career with Arthur Andersen in Mumbai in 1987 while pursuing his Chartered Accountancy and worked in the audit and business advisory services groups of Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young and the consumer banking group of Citibank before going to the USA in 1994 to pursue an MBA. After completing his MBA, he worked on Wall Street in USA for 8 years with Credit Suisse First Boston in investment banking, capital markets, structured finance and credit portfolio management before returning to Mumbai, India in 2004.

He has contributed to various committees of government and industry associations on a range of topics surrounding infrastructure, economic policy, markets, trade, minority affairs etc. He has been a speaker at various domestic and international conferences and has been part of international government delegations for infrastructure, market development and foreign direct investments into India. He has also been on the boards of various corporates, educational institutions and not for profit organizations. He was appointed by the Supreme Court of India to a four-member Committee of Administrators for governance and administration of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and has also served as the Chairman of the Working Committee of WFE.

He completed his Bachelor’s in Commerce from HR College of Commerce & Economics, University of Bombay, Chartered Accountancy from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a MBA in Finance and Multinational Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

 

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Michael Mandel
Michael Mandel
Chief Economist and Vice President, Progressive Policy Institute

More about Michael Mandel

Dr. Michael Mandel is Vice President and Chief Economist at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) in Washington DC where he supervises PPI’s global research and policy work. His main focus is the use of policy to stimulate innovation and economic growth, in both developed and developing countries. Key research interests include the link between innovation, productivity, and job creation; the impact of regulation on innovation; the effect of the international tax system on innovation; and pharmaceutical pricing and innovation. His economics textbook, Economics: The Basics, is going into its fourth edition.

Research Areas

Innovation and regulation; measurement of competitiveness and the impact of globalization

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Paul Schoemaker
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
Founder and Executive Chairman, Q2 Technologies LLC

More about Paul Schoemaker

Paul J. H. Schoemaker is an author, educator, researcher, and entrepreneur in strategic management, decision-making, and leadership. He founded and served as CEO and chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc. (DSI), a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic management and leadership (sold in 2016). The company’s clients include several of the largest corporations worldwide, as well as over a hundred of the Fortune 500. Paul is internationally known for his many articles (he ranks in the top 1 percent of scholarly citations globally) and 11 books on decision-making and strategy, including Decision Traps; Winning Decisions; Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies; Profiting from Uncertainty; Peripheral Vision; Chips, Clones and Living Beyond 100; Brilliant Mistakes; Winning the Long Game; and, most recently, See Sooner, Act Faster with George S. Day. He served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Wharton, where he still teaches strategy and decision-making at times.

Research Areas

Corporate renewal; decision theory; managerial decision-making; business strategy; digital tools

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Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder
Chief Digital Officer, EVERSANA
Adjunct Faculty, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania

More about Scott Snyder

Dr. Snyder is a recognized thought leader in technology and innovation. He has more than 30 years of experience in emerging technologies, business strategy and innovation, and digital transformation for Global 1000 companies and startup ventures. He is the co-author of Goliath’s Revenge: How Established Companies Turn the Tables on Digital Disruptors and the author of The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution and numerous other articles on emerging technologies and innovation.

Dr. Snyder is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and has lectured at MIT, Babson, Duke, Georgia Tech and INSEAD on Digital Innovation, Decision-making, Business and IT Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Product Design and Development, and Big Data/Analytics. Dr. Snyder has been a Digital Economy Project Fellow for the World Economic Forum and sits on the Penn Health Tech Advisory Board. He also holds three patents for personalization engines and has been quoted as a thought leader in numerous publications including CIO Magazine, WIRED, Forbes, Knowledge@Wharton, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and the Financial Times.

Dr. Snyder is currently the Chief Digital Officer of EVERSANA focused on accelerating the life sciences commercialization model. Dr. Snyder was recently the Global Head of Digital and Innovation at Heidrick Consulting where he is still a Senior Advisor. Before Heidrick, he was the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Safeguard Scientifics which provides capital and relevant expertise to fuel the growth of technology-driven businesses in healthcare, financial services and digital media. Prior to Safeguard, Dr. Snyder was the Co-Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Mobiquity (recently acquired by Hexaware), a leader in delivering innovative mobile and digital solutions for enterprises, where he continues to be Chairman of Mobiquity’s Advisory Board.

Dr. Snyder has held executive positions with several Fortune 500 companies including GE, Martin Marietta, and Lockheed Martin, has been the CEO of a leading strategic planning firm, Decision Strategies International (now part of Heidrick & Struggles), and has also started business ventures in software including OmniChoice, a CRM/Analytics applications provider. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Fulton Financial Corporation (FFC).

Dr. Snyder earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania.

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Terri Butrymowicz

Terri Butrymowicz

Program Manager

Terri is the Program Manager for the Mack Institute. She works to implement the institute’s programming and events on an operational level. Terri received her BS in Marketing from Philadelphia University and has an extensive background in event planning and program management. Prior to joining the Mack Institute, Terri worked for a healthcare publishing company for eight years as a coordinator for their national job fair and tradeshow programs, and for a continuing education program for nursing and allied health professionals.


Kate Fitz-Henry

Kate Fitz-Henry

Administrative Coordinator

As Administrative Coordinator for the Mack Institute, Kate wears whichever hat the moment requires, assisting her colleagues with projects and events while maintaining up-to-date contact lists and full office supply cupboards. Kate received her BA in Spanish from Earlham College, and came to the Mack Institute after nine years as Assistant Bursar at a small college in upstate New York. Previous to that, she coordinated finances and events for an organization that provided grants and ongoing professional education for primary and secondary school teachers. She also fondly recalls her early years as a photo lab technician.


Patricia

Patricia Gruver-Barr

Associate Director of Ecosystems

Patricia Gruver-Barr is the Associate Director of Innovation Ecosystems, where she facilities and builds local, regional, and global innovation ecosystems. Prior to Wharton, Patricia worked as a science diplomat for the British and Quebec governments building international partnerships in emerging tech. She also was a Tech Diplomacy Fellow with the Pacific Council researching the innovation ecosystem in Silicon Valley, and a Senior Fellow at New America, where she focused on international digital governance.


Emma Needleman

Emma Needleman

Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Emma helps the Mack Institute communicate with the Penn community and the larger world. From publicizing events to spotlighting new research, she seeks to creatively communicate the Mack mission of collaborative innovation. Emma holds a BA and MA in English literature and has worked extensively in nonprofit and digital communications.


Joe Nebistinsky

Joe Nebistinsky

Senior Associate Director for Industry Engagement

Joe’s role with the Mack Institute is threefold: he works with our Corporate Partners to develop programs that facilitate learning, help address partner needs, and offer cross-industry networking opportunities. This includes hosting conferences and workshops, providing speaking opportunities, and facilitating Mack Talks to disseminate knowledge and best practices throughout partner organizations.


Rachel Szkaradnik

Rachel Szkaradnik

Business Manager

As a long-time Wharton employee, Rachel acts as Business Manager for the Mack Institute as well as another Wharton department. She manages all things financial including budgets, purchasing, and payroll, with an eye to finding the most efficient and effective ways to accomplish the Institute’s goals while also adhering to school and university policies.