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Professor Ramamurti does research and consulting on strategy and innovation in emerging economies. His earlier work also focused on business-government relations in emerging economies. He has published several articles and books on multinationals from emerging markets and on the topic of 鈥渞everse innovation.鈥� He teaches courses on the global business environment and global strategy, and electives on Competing in Emerging Markets. 

Awards & Recognition
Honored as 鈥淭he most outstanding thought leader on strategy and innovation in Emerging Markets in the world in 2017,鈥� by Global Awards 2017, London (Nov 2017)
Winner, 2017 Best Paper in Global Strategy Journal Award, Strategic Management Society (at SMS annual meeting in Houston, October 31, 2017)
Elected Fellow, Academy of International Business, 2008

Knott's research examines the optimal environment and policies (economic, industrial and firm) for innovation, and is best summarized in her book, How Innovation Really Works (March 2017). This interest stems from issues arising during an earlier career in defense electronics at Hughes Aircraft Company. 

Ms. Hwang is a venture capital investor who has collected experiences as an innovator and inventor, founder and entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, educator, and ecosystem builder.  Most recently, she co-founded Kalei Ventures, which invests in early-stage technology startups from Latin America. Prior to Kalei, she was co-founder and Managing Director at Rivet Ventures, which focuses on companies targeting women-led markets where female usage, decision-making, and purchasing are crucial to company growth. Ms. Hwang is also co-founder of the San Francisco-based startup YouNoodle, which helps companies and governments engage with communities of entrepreneurs for open innovation and co-creation of products and services.

Ms. Hwang has been very active in creating and scaling ecosystems for innovators and entrepreneurs in several countries. Rebeca co-founded Cleantech Open, Startup Malaysia and Startup Nations Summit. She also serves on the Global Board of Kauffman's GEN, Imagine H2O, TEDx Rio de la Plata Accelerator (the largest TEDx event in the world), and was a member of the WEF's Global Council on the Future of Migrations, as well as co-lead the Access to Capital Committee of the Mexico-U.S. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council. Rebeca has worked closely several national startup programs, including initiatives in Malaysia, South Korea, Spain, Iceland, Chile, Peru, and Mexico.

Ms. Hwang was born in Seoul, raised in Argentina and educated at MIT and Stanford, and has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and as one of the top 35 under 35 Global Innovators by MIT Tech Review and was a TED speaker in Vancouver, in TED en Espanol in NYC, as well as TEDx Cordoba in 2018.

Evan Starr is an Associate Professor of Management & Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's degree from Denison University. He originally hails from Claremont, California. Starr's current research examines issues at the intersection of human capital accumulation, employee mobility, entrepreneurship, and innovation. In a recent set of projects utilizing employee-employer matched data and survey data that he and coauthors developed, Starr examined the use and impacts of noncompete agreements and their enforceability on the provision of firm-sponsored training, employee mobility and earnings, and on the creation, growth, and survival of new ventures.

Dr. Prasad is a Research Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Economics and M.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University. Previous positions include Professor of Economics at Florida State University and Research Officer at the University of Cambridge. His principal research focus is on the computability and complexity of individual decisions and economic equilibrium, innovation and diffusion of technology, and social influences on economic behavior. His research has been published in leading economic journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, International Journal of Game Theory, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Current projects include medical treatment variations and diffusion of technologies in medicine, the complexity of choice under uncertainty, and experimental tests of contract theory. His research is currently funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Prasad is also a Guest Scholar at the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.

Hitendra Chaturvedi is an expert in supply chain strategy, global logistics, entrepreneurship, sustainable supply chains and digitizing supply chains. 

He has extensive experience as a global business professional and subsequently as a successful entrepreneur and sits on advisory committees of many start-ups and incubators, speaker at numerous conferences. 

Chaturvedi is a professor of practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

He has been widely covered in press and media as a subject matter expert on global supply chain strategy, green/sustainable supply chain, digitizing supply chains and reverse logistics.

Benjamin F. Jones is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, a Professor of Strategy, and the faculty director of the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative. An economist by training, Professor Jones studies the sources of economic growth in advanced economies, with an emphasis on innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress.  He also studies global economic development, including the roles of education, climate, and national leadership in explaining the wealth and poverty of nations.  His research has appeared in journals such as Science, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review, and has been profiled in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and The New Yorker.
A former Rhodes Scholar, Professor Jones served in 2010-2011 as the senior economist for macroeconomics for the White House Council of Economic Advisers and earlier served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury.   
Professor Jones is a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

David Schonthal is a Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches courses in new venture creation, design thinking, business acquisition, healthcare entrepreneurship, corporate innovation and creativity. He also serves as the Faculty Director of Kellogg's Zell Fellows Program, a selective venture accelerator program designed to help student entrepreneurs successfully launch or acquire new businesses.

Outside of Kellogg David is a Senior Director of Business Design at IDEO, David focuses his attention on helping organizations build and launch new ventures, design transformational new business models, and establish novel go-to-market strategies for products and services.  David also serves as an Operating Partner at 7Wire Ventures, a healthcare technology-focused venture capital firm, and is a Venture Partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital where he invests in consumer, enterprise and healthcare technology startups. He is also a Global Advisor at Design for Ventures (D4V), a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital fund that invests in design-led Japanese startups.

Prior to his time in Chicago, David spent nearly a decade in the healthcare venture capital and start-up world as a Partner at Fusion Ventures and Director of Strategy and Venture Development for Tavistock Life Sciences, both based in San Diego, California.  He has also held numerous senior operating roles at startups in the technology and life sciences sectors.

David is a co-founder of MATTER, a 25,000-square-foot innovation center in downtown Chicago focused on catalyzing and supporting healthcare entrepreneurship and serves as a member of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's technology, innovation and entrepreneurship council, ChicagoNext. He is a contributing writer to Forbes, Inc., Fortune and HBR magazines, authoring articles on corporate entrepreneurship, innovation and business design.  David has received several awards for his work, including a Kellogg Faculty Impact Award for excellence in teaching and his new venture creation course being named "Best Elective" course by Kellogg EMBA students in 2018 and 2019. David has also been honored on Crain's Chicago Business magazine's "40 Under 40" list (back when he was under 40).

David earned his MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his BA in International Relations from Boston University.

If all else fails, David's Plan B is to use his booming baritone to break into the lucrative voiceover world

Professor Garthwaite is the Herman R. Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services, a Professor of Strategy, and the Director of the Program on Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK). He is an applied economist whose research examines the business of healthcare with a focus on the interaction between private firms and public policies.

His recent work in the payer and provider sectors has focused on the private sector effects of the Affordable Care Act, the impact and operation of Medicaid Managed Care plans, the responses of non-profit hospitals to financial shocks, and the economic effects of expanded social insurance programs such as Medicaid and Medicare for All. 

Professor Garthwaite also studies questions of pricing and innovation in the biopharmaceutical sector. In this area he has examined the effect of changes in market size of investments in new product development, the evolving world of precision medicine, expanded patent protection on pricing in the Indian pharmaceutical market, the innovation response of United States pharmaceutical firms to increases in demand, and the relationship between health insurance expansions and high drug prices. 

His research has appeared in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine.  In addition, he is a frequent media commentator appearing in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has also appeared as a guest on various television and radio shows such as Nightly Business Report and NPR Marketplace. In 2015, Professor Garthwaite was named one of Poet and Quants 40 Best under 40 Business School Professors.   

Garthwaite received a B.A. and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and his PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. Prior to receiving his PhD, he served in a variety of public policy positions including the Director of Research for the Employment Policies Institute. He has testified before the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives and state legislatures on matters related to the healthcare markets, prescription drugs, the minimum wage, and health care reforms.

I'm a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science and Health and the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Portsmouth.

I'm also Deputy Lead for the University's Revolution Plastics initiative, driving interdisciplinary research and innovation to tackle the global plastics crisis.

A biological scientist by training and having previously worked in the arts, the primary purpose of my research is to address global problems such as air quality, lung health and plastic pollution. I use transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies for action research and dissemination within the University's Sustainability and the Environment research theme.

I work on several international projects using creative methods, such as music, digital storytelling, puppetry and visual arts, to engage communities and find solutions to global issues in line with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

I play a central role in developing international partnerships for Revolution Plastics, including our connections with community partners, governments and academia in the global south. This includes the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding with International University Vietnam, Strathmore University, Kenya and Shahjalal University, Bangladesh.

As a founding member of the AIR (Action for Interdisciplinary Research) Network, I pioneered novel creative approaches for working with community champions in Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya. We continue to work with these community champions in the TUPUMUE, Action Against Covid Transmission (ACT) and Sustainable Transitions to End Plastic Pollution (STEPP) projects, further developing the methodologies and delivering training workshops for community based champions.

You can find my profile here: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/cressida-bowyer

Rajshree Agarwal is the Rudolph Lamone Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland. Rajshree studies the evolution of industries, firms and individual careers, as fostered by the twin engines of innovation and enterprise. Her scholarship uses an interdisciplinary lens to provide insights on strategic innovation for new venture creation and for firm renewal. She routinely publishes in leading journals in strategy and entrepreneurship. An author of more than 60 studies, her research has been cited more than 10,000 times, received numerous best paper awards, and funded by grants from various foundations, including the Kauffman Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Science Foundation. She is currently the co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has previously served in co-editor and senior editor roles at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Organization Science respectively. She is a senior contributor at Forbes, providing insights for leading purposeful lives, strategy and innovation. She has been featured in major media outlets including the Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and the Baltimore Sun.  She received her Ph.D. in Economics from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 and has previously held faculty appointments at Universities of Illinois and Central Florida.

Manuel Hermosilla (PhD in Marketing, Northwestern University) is an assistant professor of marketing at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He is an applied micro-economist specializing in economics and quantitative marketing. 
Hermosilla has studied diverse aspects of new product innovation. In the context of the pharmaceutical industry, his research has shown that the potential for large profits does not ensure that pharmaceutical firms will attempt developing scientifically novel drugs, and that organizational pressure may lead to large pharmaceutical rushing to innovate new drugs at the expense of lower success rates. In the context of the film industry, his research has shown that Hollywood studios actively try to cater to Chinese audiences by the inclusion of key cultural elements of their appeal.  

Jo毛l Le Bon (PhD in Marketing, Paris Dauphine University) is a professor of practice with expertise in marketing and sales at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He is the co-founder and executive director of the school鈥檚 Digital Business Development Initiative. Before joining Johns Hopkins, he was on the faculty of the University of Houston鈥檚 Bauer College of Business, and worked in France and Singapore as an associate professor of marketing and department head at ESSEC Business School. Before becoming a professor, he was a strategic account manager for Xerox Corporation and had sales management roles in the media industry.

Le Bon's research and executive engagements focus on digital transformation, digital business development and go-to-market strategy; digital sales and marketing; account-based marketing and negotiation; sales leadership, enablement, and CRM technology. He has earned 26 international research and teaching awards and distinctions and is the first sales educator to have received all the teaching awards from the major academic marketing associations.

Supriya Munshaw (PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Duke University) is a senior lecturer of practice at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Her work focuses on the commercialization of early-stage technologies, especially in the life science and medical device industries.

At the JHU Carey Business School, she teaches several courses including 鈥淧harmaceutical Strategy,鈥� 鈥淒esign Lab,鈥� and 鈥淣ew Product Development,鈥� as well as Technology Entrepreneurship courses through the Carey Business School鈥檚 Executive Education program. She was one of the founders and organizers of the Johns Hopkins Bootcamp for Biomedical Entrepreneurs. 

Munshaw also has been involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Baltimore by advising local tech, biotech, and med-tech startups. Additionally, she has been a member of the adjunct faculty of the National Science Foundation鈥檚 I-Corps program and has served on Small Business Innovation Research grant review panels at the National Institutes of Health. 

Jay Jayamohan is a leading expert in disruptive innovation, design thinking, and strategic management. He has worked extensively with Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, the U.S. government, startups, venture capitalists and foundations. As Executive Director of the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Harrisburg University, he is responsible for creating a multi-pronged and interconnected hub that aligns entrepreneurial activities across campus and across disciplines. He leads the effort to establish a permanent center of innovation that strategically positions HU to have a greater impact 鈥� socially and commercially 鈥� by having innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs from and around Harrisburg coming together with students and faculty to collaborate on ideas and solve problems.

He is the founder of RollStream, a Software-as-a-Service company and as CEO grew the company from concept to over 100 people globally, raised tens of millions in venture capital and won numerous accolades including 鈥榯op 100 supply and demand chain vendors in 2008鈥�. RollStream under Jay鈥檚 leadership innovated to define a new space and acquire Fortune 500 customers like Walgreens, Tesco, McKesson and Tyco within the first year of product release. The company was acquired in 2012 by GXS, now OpenText. Jay has broad industry knowledge in Software, Financial, & Manufacturing and international experience in Asia, Europe and Middle East. He has been profiled multiple times in press including Washington Post, Business Journal etc. and is a speaker at local business events. Jay Holds an M.S in Management from George Mason University and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering.

Christy Wyskiel is the Senior Advisor to the President of Johns Hopkins University for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. In this role, she also serves as the Executive Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, the division of the university responsible for technology transfer, industry research partnerships, and company incubation under the brand 鈥楩astForward.鈥�  Since her appointment in 2013, Christy has transformed the culture of commercialization at Johns Hopkins, opening 43,000 square feet of FastForward innovation space to support startup companies, facilitating the creation of 160 companies, and generating $404 million in university revenue from licensing and industry collaborations. Johns Hopkins University startups have raised more than $3 billion in venture capital during her tenure. Christy is a fierce advocate for the future of Baltimore and the role that Johns Hopkins University can play in populating the city skyline with companies borne, built and grown locally.

Christy is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and ecosystem builder with 25 years of experience primarily focused on the life sciences and healthcare industries.  Prior to her role at Johns Hopkins, Christy co-founded two Baltimore based startups and served as a formal and informal advisor to many others.  Prior to that, Christy worked as an institutional investor where she had a long track record of successful investing in both public and private companies.

Christy has a BA in Economics and German from Williams College and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Susan Sokolowski, PhD, has more than 30 years of performance sporting goods experience, working cross-functionally between footwear, apparel and equipment in creative and strategic roles. Her work is holistic in nature, where consideration of the athlete鈥檚 body form, performance, materials and styling are addressed to develop game-changing innovation solutions. She is specifically focused on issues surrounding design of products for women, children, and adaptive athletes. Susan has been internationally recognized for achievements in design innovation from Nike, The United States Olympic Committee, Vogue Magazine, Fast Company, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Design Museum London, and Volvo. She holds over 45 U.S. patents and 65 foreign patents. A motivational coach and mentor, Susan is committed to inspiring students in product design, development and business. Susan is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (PhD), Cornell University (MA) and the Fashion Institute of Technology (BFA). At the University of Oregon, she is a Professor of Product Design and the Founding Director of the Sports Product Design MS Program.

I am an Associate Professor of Innovation & Technology Management. My research focuses on the intersection of Innovation Management and Data Science, with a particular emphasis on Science, Technology & Innovation (STI) intelligence, technology foresight, and technology roadmapping. I have also conducted research on policy development and assessment of emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI, and nanotechnology. To support my work, I use a variety of research methods including text intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, patent analysis, scientometrics, and social media analytics. My research is informed by theories and models such as diffusion of innovations, systems of innovation, and general purpose technology. I published in the top journals of Innovation Management and Engineering Management fields. I worked as a project lead and consultant in various innovation management and text intelligence-related projects.

Anna is an Assistant Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University with a strong background in investment banking and mergers and acquisitions. She is able to comment on recent changes in regulation such as crowdfunding, debates about female board directors on boards, increased state intervention (from economic perspective only), big data and privacy/security/ownership concerns.

William C. Harris, Ph.D., served as Science Foundation Ireland’s founding director general and was responsible for leading it in its early years and for developing the eventual legislation to formally establish an independent SFI. He subsequently was founding president and CEO of Science Foundation Arizona.
Prior to his work at SFI, Bill served as vice president of Research for the University of South Carolina. He served in significant leadership roles at the US National Science Foundation, including developing NSF’s 25 initial Science and Technology centers and leading the Mathematical and Physical Sciences directorate. He served as deputy director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute and led development of Biosphere 2 as a western campus of Columbia.
Bill is the co-author, with Stephen Beschloss, of Adrift: Charting Our Course Back to a Great Nation (Prometheus, 2011). A former chemistry professor at Furman University, he earned his BS degree from William and Mary and his PhD from USC. Bill holds honorary doctorates from the University of Ireland and Northern Arizona University. He is co-founder and director of Innovation Advisory Partners.