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Academic Advisors The Institute is honored to have the following distinguished researchers and teachers agree to advise the membership on research directions and projects at the intersection of innovation and productivity. The Advisors are international in their views and experience and are presently from Australia, the Middle East, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Advisors also come from the complementary disciplines of economics, engineering, information technology, history, labor relations, law, management, neurosciences, psychology and public policy. The Academic Advisors contribute to the Institute both in terms of their extensive research experience and subject area knowledge, as well as their considerable professional networks. The Academic Advisors bring current and promising thought-leaders from academia and research to the practical business needs of the Institute's members. For questions about the Academic Advisor program, please contact Michael LoBue, Executive Director at LoBue@III-P.org. Professor Niv Ahituv is the Marko and Lucie Chaoul Chair for Research in Information Evaluation, and the Academic Director of Netvision Institute of Internet Studies at Tel Aviv University. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Vice President and Director General (CEO) of Tel Aviv University. From 1996 to 1999 he was the academic director of the Max Perlman Center for Global Business in Tel Aviv University. From 1989 to 1994 he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Management -- The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration in Tel Aviv University. Professor Ahituv's main areas of interest are information economics, information technology strategy and management, and social and business implications of the Internet. On the latter issue he published a book (in Hebrew) in 2001 entitled "A World Without Secrets: on the Open Information Society". Dr. Costas Andriopoulos holds a PhD from Strathclyde University (Glasgow, Scotland) and currently lectures at Brunel Business School (London, England). His research focuses on organizational creativity and innovation, and in particular on issues facing ambidextrous organizations and the management of innovation paradoxes. He has published in several leading academic and practitioner journals, such as Long Range Planning, Futures, Design Management Journal. He teaches Managing Change and Creativity in Organizations and Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship, and he is the Director of the industrial placements at Brunel Business School. He previously held teaching and research posts at the University of Aberdeen Business School (Aberdeen, Scotland) and the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland). He is also visiting teaching faculty at Grenoble Ecole de Management (Grenoble, France) and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM, Ahmedabad, India). He is currently writing articles and chapter books on managing innovation paradoxes based on his four year in-depth research in leading New product Design Consultancies (NPD) in Silicon Valley, Oregon, New York and Boston. His book on "Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation" will be published by Sage in 2009. Sinan Aral is a Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and a research affiliate at MIT. His research examines how networked information flows and technology use impact the productivity and performance of information workers. This research aims to understand the dynamics of social networks and how they influence the diffusion of information and knowledge; and measures the impact of IT use, IT skills and information flows on multitasking behavior, project duration, and individual and group productivity. A second research stream measures the impact of firm-level IT investments on productivity and business value. This work examines how investments in IT capital, complementary intangible assets, organizational restructuring, and regional economic context impact firms' productivity and performance. His work has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals such as Organization Science and the Sloan Management Review, has been mentioned in the New York Times, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld and CIO Magazine, and has won several best paper awards. Prior to joining NYU, Sinan was a Fulbright Scholar, and worked as the assistant to the director of the Department of Southern Mediterranean Relations at the European Commission in Brussels and as a technology consultant for several Fortune 1000 firms. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University and holds masters degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard University, and a PhD from MIT. Adam Austerfield is the Director of Projects Projects at Enterprise LSE Ltd, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)'s commercial company harnessing the expertise of over 500 world class faculty. He has a BA (Hons) in History from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University of London and an MSc in Political Economy of Transition from LSE. He is a member of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe, the Royal Society for Asian Affairs and is the Chair of the LSE Alumni Association in Spain. Adam is in charge of large-scale international executive education and consulting assignments for Enterprise LSE, where he has worked for 12 years. In recent years he has designed and managed programmes for Citigroup Private Bank (Global Economics), the UK Department for International Development (Economic Policy Making in Bosnia), the UK National Audit Office (Government on the Web I & II), the World Bank (Hungarian Higher Education Finance), the Corporation of London (London's Place in the UK Economy, PPP/PFI projects), Merrill Lynch (Asset Valuation), UK Foreign Office (Economics Training), the Caja Madrid (Global Financial Architecture, the Challenges of New Technology) and the Stock Exchange Institute of Madrid (International Finance and Economics). C. Warren Axelrod is Executive in Residence at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Chief Privacy Officer and Business Information Security Officer for the United States Trust Company, N.A. At US Trust he interfaces with the firm's business units and parent company (Charles Schwab & Co.) to identify and assess privacy and security risks and mitigate them, to have employees become familiar with security policies, standards, and procedures, and to ensure that they are followed. He has worked in many areas of the financial services industry, at firms such as SIAC, HSBC Securities and Pershing. He is involved at both the industry and national level with security and critical infrastructure protection issues respectively. He is a member of the SIFMA Privacy Committee, SIFMA Information Security Subcommittee, the FSSCC R&D Committee and several BITS working groups. He has contributed to a number of BITS publications. He represented financial services information security interests at the Y2K command center in Washington, DC during the century date rollover. He is a founder of the FS/ISAC (Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center) and served two terms on its Board of Managers. He holds a PhD in managerial economics from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and honors bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering, economics and statistics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is certified as a CISSP and CISM and has NASD Series 7 and Series 24 licenses. Udo-Ernst Haner is lecturing on Innovation and Technology Management at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and the International Management Academy at the Johannes-Kepler-University in Linz, Austria. He received a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Karlsruhe University of Technology, Germany, and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, USA. He is conducting research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO in Stuttgart. His research focus is on the spatio-technical support of innovation processes and on performance enhancing work environments. Jerry M. Hultin was appointed Polytechnic University's 10th president on July 1, 2005. From 1997 to 2000 Mr. Hultin served as under secretary of the Navy, the department's number two civilian leader. In this position, he led numerous programs that supported innovation in strategic vision, war fighting and business operations to meet the evolving needs of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 21st century. He helped direct a department composed of two military services, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. Over the course of his career, Mr. Hultin has helped create and support a number of national, nonprofit programs that provide leadership, community development and job skills to young people from all walks of life. A 1964 graduate of Ohio State University, where he also received his commission as a naval officer, and 1972 graduate of Yale University Law School, Mr. Hultin spent more than 25 years in the private sector in Ohio and Washington, D.C. His work included the practice of law, management of small businesses and business consulting in areas including technology, defense, health care, finance and the environment. Mr. Hultin is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the New York/London Transatlantic Council, a director of BABI, the founding chairman of the Technology Management Education Association and an adviser to senior military and defense leaders. Dr. Daniel Jacoby holds the University of Washington's Harry Bridges Endowed Chair of Labor Studies. He teaches for the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Department and the Graduate Program on Policy Studies at the University of Washington, Bothell Campus. As Chair of the UW Center for Labor Studies, Dr. Jacoby has collaborated with Business and Labor groups to produce a public symposium on Labor, Knowledge and the Economy that examined likely trends in technology and their effects on work and labor markets. He has consulted with numerous unions and is actively in policy discussion and research on higher education. Dr. Jacoby's teaching areas include Economics, Labor, Education Policy and Economic History. Dr. Jacoby's research interests involve contemporary and historical analysis of apprenticeship, vocational education; labor economics and education. His most recent scholarly publications examine community college graduation rates and the use of part-time faculty. Dr. Jonathan Levie is a Senior Lecturer in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, where he was Director from 2000 to 2005. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, and in particular issues facing high potential ventures, and he has published in Small Business Economics and Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. He teaches Technology Venture Management and Entrepreneurial Finance and is Director of the MSc in Entrepreneurship (Dubai campus). Before joining the University of Strathclyde he was Associate Coordinator of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), one of the largest social science research consortia in the world, and currently serves as the UK GEM team representative to the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association. He has held research and teaching posts in London Business School, INSEAD, Babson College and the National University of Ireland and is a visiting teaching faculty member at Audencia, Nantes, France. Dr. Levie holds a BSc and MSc from the National University of Ireland and a PhD from the University of London (London Business School). Dr. Guus Pijpers is an Associate Professor of Information Behavior at TiasNimbus Business School, Tilburg, The Netherlands, and is the founder and Managing Director of ePortals, also based in The Netherlands. Dr. Pijpers experience includes: Chief Information Officer at Philips Electronics and Akzo Nobel, and consultant and IT auditor for KPMG. Dr. Pijpers' more than 20 years experience in consulting has involved work for many of the leading companies in Europe and North America across many diverse industry and business segments. He has advanced knowledge and expertise in the practical use of information at the senior executive level. His research activities and interest are in the fields of information usage behavior, information management and knowledge management as drivers for business value, and the adoption, use, and effects of enterprise portals. He is currently working with a number of Dutch companies in programs aimed at implementing the new world of work for the people-ready business. He is also teaching on the subject at postgraduate courses and Executive MBA institutions. Dr. Bharat Rao is an Associate Professor of Management and an Othmer Faculty Fellow at Polytechnic University. He earned a Ph.D. in Marketing and Strategic Management from The University of Georgia, and received a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in Calicut, India. Prior to joining Polytechnic, he held a post-doctoral Research Associate position at Harvard Business School in Boston. Recently, he was a visiting faculty researcher at the Center for Advanced Learning Technologies, INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France. Professor Rao's research has examined the impact of information and communications technologies on multiple industries including retailing, logistics and distribution, supply chain management, wireless and broadband innovation, financial services, entertainment and media. His current research focuses on the diffusion of emerging technologies, business model evolution, the integration of multiple technologies for improving business effectiveness, and global innovation strategy. Professor Rao serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Harvard-Wharton Merchandising Effectiveness Project, and on the Editorial Board of EM-Electronic Markets. He has been an invited speaker at industry and academic events in the US, Europe, India, Israel and Taiwan, and has taught in graduate and executive management programs at Polytechnic University, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and Tufts University. He has consulted for firms in the areas of electronic commerce, software, financial services, pharmaceuticals and fashion merchandising. Dr. Richard Reilly's academic home is the Howe School of Technology Management and Stevens Institute of Technology, where he is professor of management, chair of the Howe School Graduate Curriculum Committee, co-director for the Center for Technology Management Research and editor-in-chief of the Howe School Forum. Dr. Reilly is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Prior to joining Stevens faculty he was on the staff of the Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ) and a research psychologist at the AT&T. Dr. Reilly's research interests include: team effectiveness in new product development and other projects; employee assessment, feedback and selection; and individual differences in group and team performance. Dr. Evgenia (Jenny) Sendova is a senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Sendova's interests are in using informatics and ICT for teaching mathematics, languages, music, science and arts. She has been working on developing Logo microworlds and models for integrating learning and creative processes. For more than ten years Dr. Sendova has been involved in working with high school students highly motivated in studying mathematics and science. Currently she is involved in two EC projects - The Innovative Teacher for developing a methodology for teaching ICT-enhanced skills, and DALEST — for developing software applications and didactical scenarios for enhancing the spatial imagination of young students. Dr. Jonathan Sharples is Policy Officer at The Institute for the Future of the Mind at Oxford University. His research explores how an understanding of developments in brain-science research can be used to help inform education policy and practice. A key part of this work is considering how young people's increasing intimacy with digital technologies may influence key abilities and cognitive skills. Dr. Sharples coordinates the activities of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Scientific Research in Learning and Education, which is considering how understandings from brain-science research may be used more effectively to inform government policy. Dr. Sharples developed his interest in education from his role as a secondary school teacher in Sydney. He holds a Masters degree and D.Phil in biochemistry, from Oxford University. Dr. Carsten Sørensen is a senior lecturer in information systems at the London School of Economics. Dr. Sørensen's area of research is information and communication technology supporting complex work processes. He has worked extensively in European research projects and conducted research on the socio-technical implications of advanced ICT utilisation within the areas of mobile computing, interaction overload, software engineering, computer supported collaborative work, web navigation, and knowledge management. His research has focused on the appropriation of standard application packages such as ERP systems, Groupware systems, Internet technologies and most recently, mobile and wireless technologies. Core concerns in his research have been the management of social interactions in distributed settings, in particular considering the increased mobilisation of interaction and the subsequent struggle for mobile workers to engage in fluid interaction. He is currently working on theory for mobile information services. Dr. Edward A. Stohr is Professor of Information Systems and Co-Director of the Center for Technology Management Research at the Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology. Until recently, he was Associate Dean for Research and Academics in the Howe School. Prior to joining Stevens in 2001, Professor Stohr was a faculty member at NYU's Stern School of Business for over 20 years. While at NYU, he served as Chair of the Department of Information Systems for 11 years and as Director of Stern's Center for Research on Information Systems for five years. His research focuses on the problems of developing computer systems to support work and decision making in organizations. He has published many articles in leading management journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Communications of the ACM. He is the co-editor of three books in the field of information systems and is on the editorial boards of a number of leading journals. In 1991, he was general chair of the International Conference on Information Systems, the leading conference in the information systems field. He holds an MBA and a Ph.D. degree in Information Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.Eng. from Melbourne University. Dr. Erik van Heck is the Professor of IS and Markets at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, where he teaches in the international M.B.A. program, the Global eManagement (GeM) program, and PhD students. Professor van Heck is currently also Director of Doctoral Education at Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). Prof. van Heck has published in journals such as the California Management Review, Communications of the ACM, European Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Information Systems Research, Journal of Information Technology, and WirtschaftsInformatik. He is a member of the editorial board of Electronic Commerce Research, the Journal of Information Technology, and the European Journal of Information Systems. Prof. van Heck's current research interests include: the role of information architecture in business networks, especially smart business networks; IT and business process outsourcing; and the role of IT in the new world of work, with a special focus on the influence of IT on how work it changing in terms of modularity, team work and globalization. Dr. Martin Westwell is the Director of the Flinders Centre for Science Education in the 21st Century and a University Professor at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He has worked in academic research, the biotechnology industry, in business development and with a number of organizations on science-and-society projects. Dr. Westwell is also an award winning science communicator, including being named by The Times and Novartis as the Scientist of the New Century in 1999. Dr. Westwell's particular interest is in the way that young people form their minds and the influences of technology on this process in the future.