Joseph Bailey's research and teaching interests span issues in telecommunications, economics, and public policy with an emphasis on the economics of the Internet. This area includes an identification of the existing public policies, technologies, and market opportunities that promote the benefits of interoperability.

Bailey is currently studying issues related to the economics of electronic commerce and how the Internet changes competition and supply chain management.

Progyan Basu has over 20 years of experience teaching accounting at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has also taught accounting seminars for professionals in the US and abroad. His research interests include financial accounting and accounting education and he has had a number of academic presentations and publications. Basu received several teaching awards and recognitions at his previous appointment at the Terry College of Business at University of Georgia. At the Smith School of Business, Basu teaches Financial and Managerial Accounting, and Financial Statement Analysis at the MBA level, and Principles of Accounting I for undergraduates. He also serves as a Cohort Director for Smith’s Executive MBA Program, as well as a Faculty Champion for Accounting Teaching Scholars Program.

Gilad Chen is Professor of Management & Organization at the Smith School. He received his bachelor degree in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1996, and his doctoral degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from George Mason University in 2001. Prior to joining the Smith School, he was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Texas A&M University, and a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Technion, and Tel-Aviv University.

Chen teaches courses on a variety of organizational behavior, human resource management, and methodological topics. His research focuses on work motivation, adaptation, teams and leadership, with particular interest in understanding the complex interface between individuals and the socio-technical organizational context. He has won several research awards, including the 2007 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the 2008 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.

Chen's research has appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, and Research in Organizational Behavior. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology and as an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal, and is an active member of the Academy of Management and the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

Leandro De Sa is an affiliate professor with the Toulouse Business School in Organizational Transformation and Architecture, as well as in Operational subjects such as Supply-Chain, Large Program Management and Customer Services Leandro is currently the Chaiman of Growthphases, a global alliance that focuses on Lean organic and Corporate Development inorganic growth opportunities for firms. Its customers are mostly large multinationals and top Private Equity firms in North America, Europe, India and China. He is also the Chairman of the Southwest Chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce in France and belongs to several SME and entrepreneurial associations in Europe. His business is international from Russia, India and China to Central and Western Europe and the US, chiefly in Aerospace & Defence and in high-technology companies. He has a 22-year executive management experience with large Aerospace firms, in diverse operational and financial roles.

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Dave Godes holds a PhD and SM in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Smith School Faculty in 2009 after teaching for ten years at Harvard Business School. His teaching experiences include undergraduate, graduate and executive courses ranging from Introduction to Marketing to Business-to-Business Marketing and Sales Management. His academic research focuses on two areas: sales management and social networks/word of mouth. His work has appeared in top journals like Marketing Science, Management Science and Quantitative Marketing & Economics and he has authored numerous case studies on leading global firms like Federal Express, Avon Products, Terumo (Japan), SKF (Sweden), XM Satellite Radio, BMW, IBM, Hasbro, BzzAgent and Lincoln Financial. His research and opinions have been cited in a wide range of popular press outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist and The Boston Globe. He has consulted and/or delivered executive education courses to many firms, small and large, located in the US and abroad.

Prior to returning to MIT to pursue doctoral studies, Godes started and ran his own market research and consulting firm which served a range of clients throughout the Northeast drawn from banking, mortgage lending, health care management and venture capital. Prior to that, he was a marketing manager in consumer banking.

Anil K. Gupta is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and globalization. Gupta is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of over seventy papers and four books: Getting China and India Right (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, February 2009), The Quest for Global Dominance (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2008), Smart Globalization (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2003), and Global Strategy and Organization (John Wiley, 2003). Gupta serves as a regular columnist on “Getting China and India Right” for BusinessWeek. The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching, Gupta has been recognized by Business Week as an Outstanding Faculty in its Guide to the Best B-Schools, inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the “Top 20 North American Superstars” for research in strategy and organization. His Primary Research Areas include:

• Global Strategy and Organization
• Knowledge Management
• The Quest for Synergy
• Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Wolfgang Jank is Associate Professor of Management Science and Statistics at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He holds a PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Florida and BS and MS degrees in Mathematics from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany.

His research interests lie in the areas of statistics and data mining applied to electronic commerce, marketing, operations management and aviation. He is particularly interested in the dynamics and interrelations of ecommerce processes found in online auctions or prediction markets. Jank teaches classes in decision making, data mining and business intelligence at the MBA, executive MBA and PhD levels. He is also part of several consulting projects and advisory boards.

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Albert "Pete" Kyle's research focuses on theoretical market microstructure. His research involves mathematical modeling of informed trading in speculative markets, including topics such as insider trader, market manipulation, price volatility, the information content of market prices, and market liquidity. His current research also deals with concepts from industrial organization to model the valuation dynamics of growth stocks and value stocks by applying techniques used to value real options. His teaching interests include venture capital and private equity, corporate finance, option pricing, market microstructure, and asset pricing. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Davidson College and studying economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Kyle received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, he was a professor at Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Duke University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a board member of the American Finance Association. He served as a staff member of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (Brady Commission) after the stock market crash of 1987 and is a currently a member of NASDAQ's economic advisory board.

Henry Lucas’ research interests include information technology-enabled transformations of organizations, markets, industries and our daily lives. He has conducted research on the impact of information technology on organizations, IT in organization design, electronic commerce, and the value of information technology. Lucas co-produced and co-wrote The Transformation Age: Surviving a Technology Revolution with Robert X. Cringely, a documentary co-developed by Maryland Public Television and the Smith School shown on public television stations around the U.S. He has authored a dozen books as well as monographs and more than 70 articles in professional periodicals on the impact of technology, information technology in organization design, the return on investments in technology, implementation of information technology, expert systems, decision-making for technology, and information technology and corporate strategy. His most recent books include Inside the Future: Surviving the Technology Revolution (Praeger, 2008), Strategies for E-Commerce and the Internet (MIT Press. 2002), Information Technology and the Productivity Paradox: Assessing the Value of Investing in IT (Oxford University Press, 1999) and The T-Form Organization: Using Technology to Design Organizations for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 1996).

He was the vice president of publications for the Association for Information Systems (AIS) from 1995-1998 and editor-in-chief of the AIS electronic journals, Communications of AIS and Journal of AIS from 1998-2002.

Lucas has been a professor of information systems at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University where he was a research professor of information systems from 1988-1998, and professor and chair of the Department of Computer Applications and Information from 1978-1984. He also served as the Shaw Foundation Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and as a visiting professor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He was a visiting researcher at Bell Communications Research in Morristown, New Jersey, and a consultant to Arthur D. Little, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He serves on the board of directors of a software supplier for satellite multicasting and has been a board member of a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of passive electronic components. Lucas is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association for Information Systems, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and INFORMS.

Bryan Palma is a seasoned technology executive with general management experience across a wide spectrum of industries and operating environments. He is a transformative leader who focuses on driving change, delivering accelerated growth, identifying strategic markets, and improving management talent. Currently, Bryan has been focused on identifying investment opportunities in the technology sector for a syndicate of investors while reinvigorating Ponic, his strategic advisory firm. Additionally, Bryan currently serves on the Advisory Board at Agiliance, Airtight Networks, Approva, Credant, and Lancope. Ponic provides temporary executive support to clients requiring information security leadership; delivers professional services focused on security, compliance, and privacy; and provides advice to technology companies on strategic marketing, product development, and merger & acquisitions. Prior to Ponic, Bryan served in a number of high level positions, including Vice-President of Service Delivery Operations for Hewlett Packard (HP/EDS); Information Security Officer at PepsiCo; and as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service.

Professor Sampson currently teaches managerial economics and business strategy in the part-time and full-time MBA core. Her research focuses on strategic alliances and the organization of corporate R&D. Her recent studies examine alliance structure and partner selection in the telecommunications equipment industry, legal contracting for alliances and optimal organization for innovation.

Sampson joined the University of Maryland after five years at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Prior to receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, she lived in Australia for 10 years. During this time, she received her law degree from Queensland University of Technology and was admitted as a barrister in New South Wales. Sampson also held several legal and consulting positions during this time, most recently at Ernst and Young advising firms on optimal expansion strategies for South East Asia. Since returning to the US, Prof. Sampson has received several awards for her teaching and research work, including the Ameritech Foundation Research Fellowship and the Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Paul Tesluk is Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Chair of the Department of Management and Organization, which is currently rated as one of the top five management departments in the world in research productivity and scholarly impact, and Co-Director of the Center for Human Capital, Innovation and Technology (HCIT). His research focuses on strategies to enhance team effectiveness and innovation, the assessment and development of management and leadership talent, and organizational culture and climate in organizations transitioning to high-involvement workplace systems. He has published dozens of articles and book chapters on these topics and has received awards from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for his research on work team effectiveness and work experience and leadership development. He is currently on the editorial boards of several of the leading academic journals in the management field. Tesluk is also a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has worked with a number of private and public sector organizations in both research and consulting capacities and his research has been supported by agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes for Health.