Simon Johnson

Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship

Office: E52-562
Telephone: 617-290-9618
Fax: 617-253-2660
Email: sjohnson@mit.edu
Website: http://baselinescenario.com/

Simon Johnson is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Adviser, and a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, a widely cited website on the global economy. Mr. Johnson appears regularly on NPR's Planet Money podcast in the Economist House Calls feature, is a weekly contributor to NYT.com's Economix, and has a video blog feature on The New Republic's website. He is co-director of the NBER project on Africa and President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (term of office 2008-2009). For more information, click here.

M. Jonathan Lehrich

Lecturer

Office: E53-318
Telephone: 617-253-6011
Email: jlehrich@mit.edu

A graduate of MIT Sloan, Jonathan Lehrich teaches international entrepreneurship, project management, and team skills for G-Lab and acts as course coordinator. Jonathan is also responsible for key international and educational initiatives at MIT Sloan, including leading the new China Lab and India Lab initiatives with Prof. Yasheng Huang. He manages the MIT Sloan-Portugal collaboration and teaches MBA leadership courses during Sloan Innovation Period. Prior to coming to MIT, Jonathan was a consultant and leadership development instructor for the corporate education firm Linkage, Inc., and served as Executive Director of Operations. Jonathan has also taught at the University of Chicago, where he completed doctoral research in history.

Anjali Sastry

Senior Lecturer

Office: E53-329
Telephone: 617-253-0965
Fax: 617-258-7579
Email: sastry@mit.edu
Website: http://mensetmanus.org , http://globalhealth.mit.edu/glab-ghd

Anjali Sastry investigates how people make sense of their experiences to guide subsequent action. Noting that individuals, teams, and organizations wrestle with causal models in the course of enacting change, she integrates research in systems thinking, organizational theory, management of change, and other disciplines. Her academic grounding in system dynamics informs her research on organizational change and sustainability, where she's studied organizational responses to environmental imperatives as well as new ideas in social entrepreneurship. Recently, she has been focusing on Global Health Delivery, having partnered with others to develop new materials and offer an introductory course on the challenges and opportunities in delivering needed services in resource-poor settings. Sastry has MIT degrees in Management, Physics, and Russian and has worked as a business strategy consultant, research scientist, and environmentalist in India on carbon emissions reduction strategies.

Rodrigo Canales

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Yale School of Management

Email: rodrigo.canales@yale.edu
Website: http://mba.yale.edu/faculty/profiles/canales.shtml

Rodrigo Canales' research is centered on institutions and economic development, with a specific focus on institutions that affect the quality and levels of entrepreneurship in developing countries. Most of his research seeks to understand the process through which institutions are purposefully changed, with a focus on the role of individuals in that process. So far, he has done work in the Mexican financial sector, including work in Small Business credit and Microfinance. Related to this, he is also doing work on how the organization of the financial sector impacts small firms in different institutional environments.

Shari Loessberg

Senior Lecturer

Office: E52-562
Telephone: 617-253-5070
Fax: 617-253-2660
Email: sloessberg@mit.edu

Shari Loessberg is an experienced entrepreneur in established and emerging markets. In the US, she founded and runs Big World, a strategy firm focused on new ventures in new markets. She also co-founded Zeta Networks, an optical networking firm built on technology developed at MIT. In addition, Loessberg spent five years in Moscow, where she was a partner, director, and general counsel of Brunswick (now Brunswick UBS), a start-up investment firm in the brutally entrepreneurial Russian equity market. She has particular experience in emerging market venture capital fund formation, entrepreneurship in emerging economies, and the evolving issues and standards of corporate governance in the US and abroad. Loessberg is a director of Onpoint Africa Holdings, an asset management firm investing in pan-African equities; a director of National Financial Partners (NYSE: NFP); chairman emerita of the board of the International Institute of Boston; and chairman of the board of overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. For more information, click here.

Ant Bozkaya

Lecturer, Visiting Scholar

Email: bozkaya@mit.edu
Website: http://www.bozkaya.org/

Dr. Ant Bozkaya is Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School; Innovation Policy and the Economy Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); and also Senior Research Fellow in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

Ant’s research interests include policy for innovation and financing of young innovative ventures. He also develops teaching materials in entrepreneurial finance and international entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. His publications include Financing Entrepreneurship (with Phil Auerswald, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008) and Entrepreneurial Finance: Financing of Young Innovative Ventures (Verlag Publishing, 2009).

Ant was Founder and Director of the Project on Technological Innovation and Turkey (2008-09) at Harvard Kennedy School and Research Fellow (2005-09) at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

He was President and CEO of Bilkent Holding Technology, Healthcare, and Power Group, Turkey. During his tenure, he started-up a number of ventures including Meteksan information technology group, Bilkent healthcare and hospital construction companies, and Bilkent electric-power generation (with Rolls-Royce Power Ventures). Ant also held senior positions in management consulting with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) at its Istanbul, London, and Sydney offices.

Yasheng Huang

China Program Professor in International Management

Office: E52-551
Telephone: 617-253-9768
Fax: 617-253-2660
Email: yshuang@mit.edu
Website: http://web.mit.edu/yshuang/www/

Yasheng Huang teaches political economy and international management at MIT Sloan School of Management. At MIT Sloan, he founded and runs China Lab and India Lab, which aim at helping entrepreneurs in China and India improve their management. Professor Huang’s research focuses on international business, political economy and institutional issues. His recently published book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (2008) shows that private entrepreneurship, facilitated by financial liberalization and microeconomic flexibility, played a central role in China's economic miracle. In a previous book, Selling China (2003), he examined the institutional drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China and demonstrated that some of the inefficiencies of China's financial and legal institutions have served to drive up FDI inflows. Professor Huang’s previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. He has also been a consultant to the World Bank. For more information, click here.

Kenneth P. Morse

Senior Lecturer

Office: E40-196
Telephone: 617-253-8653
Fax: 617-253-8633
Email: kenmorse@mit.edu

Ken Morse has been encouraging new ventures to think globally from the outset since he started his first company in China in 1972. Ken went on to help launch six MIT-related startups including 3Com, AspenTech, and a biotech company. Five did well; one was a disaster. Then Ken joined the MIT Entrepreneurship Center (E-Center) in 1996, under the leadership of its Founder and Chairman, Prof. Ed Roberts. Working with John Preston, Ken helped build the MIT Entrepreneurship Lab Course (#15.399) from 6 to over 100 students per semester. The number of students taking entrepreneurship courses at MIT has grown from about 200 to over 1500 per year. The number of E-Center-related courses has grown from 2 to 21, with a faculty comprised of over 30 members. For more information, click here.

Ken assists Simon, Jonathan, Shari, and Yasheng by teaching some of the G-Lab classes, coaching G-Lab student teams, and helping to recruit G-Lab host companies in the Pacific Rim (China, Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, and New Zealand).

Richard M. Locke

Deputy Dean, Sloan School of Management
Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Entrepreneurship
Professor of Political Science

Office: E52-589
Telephone: 617-253-2610
Fax: 617-253-2660
Email: rlocke@mit.edu
Website: http://rlocke.scripts.mit.edu/

Richard Locke has been a consistent voice for integrating social and economic concerns into curriculum and research. His teaching case on Nike's response to NGO pressures to address labor standards of Nike contractors was selected for teaching at MIT Sloan's 50th Anniversary Convocation. His work has also had an impact on Nike's business practices, helping the company to integrate reporting and auditing labor conditions with its quality improvement efforts. Locke was recently named a 2005 Faculty Pioneer in Academic Leadership by the Aspen Institute. Locke's research focuses on economic development, comparative labor relations, and political economy. At MIT Sloan, Locke pioneered the popular Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a course that teaches students about entrepreneurship in developing countries by placing them in internships with start-ups in an array of companies in various emerging markets. For more information, click here.