Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium

Aparajita is a fourth year doctoral student in the Management Department at Wharton with research interests at the intersection of innovation, economic development and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Wharton, Aparajita worked in multiple consulting, strategy and product management roles in multi-national organizations in India and UK.

Brittany Mallory is a third-year Ph.D. student in management, specializing in strategic human capital. She studies how firms navigate the external labor market to hire workers and the consequences of mobility to workers’ careers. She is especially interested in how these questions intersect with startups as they scale and change organizational size and form. Prior to beginning doctoral work, Brittany worked in marketing research and as a research assistant studying coworking spaces and human capital mobility. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Xinyu Ma is a doctoral student in the Operations, Information and Decisions Department of the Wharton School, with a concentration in information systems and technology. His research interests lie in digital transformation, technology strategy, and innovation. Xinyu is also passionate about applying natural language processing methods to large-scale text data to measure economic variables and derive business insights.

Sathya is a 4th year doctoral student in the Management Department with a focus on corporate and non-market strategy. In particular, his research interests range from mergers and acquisitions in innovative contexts to how social movements impact corporate policy. Prior to beginning doctoral work, Sathya worked for 7 years on management consulting and corporate social responsibility engagements. He previously earned an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS from the University of North Carolina.