Susan Duffy
Executive Director, Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL)
Dr. Susan Duffy is the Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL), where she educates, inspires and empowers women to transform their entrepreneurial potential into social and economic impact. She earned a Ph.D. in Management and Organization from The George Washington University, and is an advisor to a number of early stage companies, an angel investor, and a member of several boards and advisory councils.
Nel Dutt
Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Technology
Nilanjana (Nel) Dutt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University in Milan. She has a Ph.D. in Strategy from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She is generally interested in understanding how firms discover new investment opportunities and evolve their innovation efforts over time. Her dissertation research examined how U.S. Electric Utilities identify new Renewable Electricity projects.
Kafui Dzirasa
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Kafui is an Associate Professor at Duke University with appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery. His ultimate goal is to combine his research, medical training, and community experience to improve outcomes for diverse communities suffering from Neurological and Psychiatric illness.
Alice Eagly
James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Psychology and of Management & Organizations, Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research
Alice Eagly is James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. She has published widely on the psychology of gender and of attitudes, especially attitude change and attitude structure. Previously, she taught at Michigan State University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Purdue University. She has served as president of the Midwestern Psychological Association, president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, chair of the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association, and chair of the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. She is currently president-elect of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. She has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association and the Gold Medal from the American Psychological Foundation Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology, Interamerican Psychologist Award for contributions to psychology as a science and profession in the Americas; and the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award for contributions to the psychology of women as scholar, mentor, teacher, and leader.
Daniel Egan
President
Daniel P. Egan is President of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Rhode Island (AICU Rhode Island) since 2007. He previously served as chief of staff in the Office of the Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences in the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University. He has also served as vice president for government relations at the Hospital Association of Rhode Island and at the local firm Trion Communications, associate director of athletics at Brown University, assistant director of athletic media relations at Providence College, and staff to the Mayor of the City of Warwick for two administrations.
Colin Elman
Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Colin Elman is a Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is also the Director of Syracuse’s Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry and the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research interests include international relations and national security. He also works on qualitative research methods and was a leading member of the American Political Science Association’s Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) initiative.
Nathanael Fast
Jorge Paulo and Susanna Lemann Chair in Entrepreneurship, Associate Professor of Management and Organization, USC School of Business
Co-Director of the Psychology of Technology Institute, Director of the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making
Dr. Nathanael Fast is the Jorge Paulo and Susanna Lemann Chair in Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor of Management at USC Marshall School of Business, where he studies technology adoption and the future of work. He is the director of USC’s Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making and cofounder and codirector of the Psychology of Technology Institute.
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology & Gender Studies, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology & Biochemistry
Dr. Fausto-Sterling is currently focused on applying dynamic systems theory to the study of gender differentiation in early childhood. Her ambition is to restructure dichotomous conversations — inside the academy, in public discourse, and ultimately in the framing of social policy — in order to enable an understanding of the inseparability of “nature” and “nurture”.
Stephie Fried
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Stephie Fried is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Arizona State University and a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Her research focuses on the effects of climate change and climate policy on the macroeconomy. She is an affiliate of the CESifo research network. Fried received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and her undergraduate degree in math from Grinnell College.
Archon Fung
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Archon Fung is a Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School. His research explores how citizen participation, public deliberation, and government transparency contribute to democratic governance. He has published numerous books, journal articles, and mainstream media pieces. Fung co-founded Participedia, a collaborative project to gather information about experiments in participatory governance from around the world. He is also director of the Transparency Policy Project, an effort to research and improve systems that promote government transparency.
Urs Gasser
Executive Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School
Dr. Urs Gasser is the Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. His research and teaching activities focus on information law, policy, and society issues; the changing role of academia in the digitally networked age; and the governance of evolving and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. He graduated from the University of St. Gallen (lic.iur., Dr.iur.) in Switzerland and from Harvard Law School (LL.M. ‘03).
Samuel Gershman
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Samuel Gershman is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work focuses on computational models of learning and memory, and he is interested in the extent to which we can understand the brain as performing statistical inference.
Marco Giacoletti
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business
Marco Giacoletti is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. His research focuses on economic trends and the factors affecting U.S. home and rental prices.
Francesca Gino
Associate Professor, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, Harvard Business School
Francesca Gino is an associate professor of business administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She is also formally affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and with the Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative at Harvard. She has earned research awards from the National Science Foundation and the Academy of Management, including the 2013 Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award from the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division. In addition to teaching, she advises firms and not-for-profit organizations in the areas of negotiation, decision-making, and organizational behavior.
Danna Greenberg
Walter H. Carpenter Professor of Organizational Behavior
Management Division Co-Chair
Danna Greenberg is the Walter H. Carpenter Professor of Organizational Behavior at Babson College. Danna teaches organizational behavior at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive level, often in association with entrepreneurship and design thinking. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Organizational Studies from Boston College. Her main area of research focuses on understanding the intersection between individuals’ work and non-work lives as they move through their careers.
Matthew Gregg
Associate Professor of Economics
Matthew Gregg is an Associate Professor of Economics at Roger Williams University, where he began as an Assistant Professor in 2005. Matt’s research focuses on economic history, applied econometrics, economic development, and, in particular, American Indian economic history.
Rupayan Gupta
Associate Professor of Economics, Mario J. Gabelli School of Business
Rupayan Gupta is Associate Professor of Economics at Roger Williams University, RI. His areas of expertise are Public Economics, Political Economy, and the Economics of Conflict. His research includes designing international institutions for global security, analysis of conflict in disputed regions, and the study of global remittance patterns.
Vishal Gupta
Associate Professor of Data Science & Operations, Marshall School of Business
Vishals research interests focus on developing novel techniques for representing uncertainty and behavior in optimization problems.
Allen Hance
Director of Engaged Scholarship, Swearer Center for Public Service
Allen Hance is the Director of Engaged Scholarship at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, where he works with students, faculty, and community partners to develop pathways for community-engaged learning and research. Dr. Hance is the director of TRI-Lab. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College.
Alan Harlam
Director of Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship, Swearer Center for Public Service
Alan Harlam is the Director of Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship at Browns Swearer Center for Public Service, which provides resources, networking, and funding to support student initiatives on and off campus. Harlam co-founded and directs the Social Innovation Initiative (SII), which expands Browns curricular and extra-curricular resources for student exploration and experience of social entrepreneurship. He also leads the Social Innovation Fellowship, a three-semester program that supports students through the process of launching or growing a social venture with funding, mentoring, and skills development. Harlam is also an adjunct lecturer in public policy who teaches an introductory course in social entrepreneurship and an action learning course for social entrepreneurs. His work on social entrepreneurship is informed by 20 years as a consultant, turnaround investor and manager, and community leader.