Dr. Blitz has over twenty years of research and business experience, with expertise in innovation, strategy, entrepreneurship, and economic development.

Throughout her career, she has led major research initiatives for diverse organizations, including IBM, where she was the Global Lead for Strategy at the IBM Institute for Business Value and directed a series of studies on innovation; Harvard Business School, where she developed a series of studies on entrepreneurial strategy based on interviews with leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; Ernst & Young, where she co-authored a study on IPOs in the late 1990s that resulted in extensive new, ongoing consulting services; and a UN-affiliated NGO in the Philippines, where she helped launch a successful credit cooperative in a poor rural community.

Dr. Blitz has extensive consulting experience in areas related to strategy and thought leadership. Her work has been published as books and articles, and has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, NPR and other leading media outlets. Her recent book, The Contested State, explores the issue of rising authoritarianism, focusing on transnational alliances and regime change in the Philippines from 1898 to the present, in a global context.

Alvaro Boitier is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Babson College. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Master Degree in Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) and Bachelor's Degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

His research interests lie in the intersection of international finance, macroeconomics and trade. His research projects study the aggregate implications of corporate hedging in the transmission of international shocks.
Alvaro has extensive experience in teaching and working in the private and public sectors. He taught classes in macroeconomics at UCLA and UTDT and held positions at Accenture and the European Central Bank.

Yunwei Gai received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Florida State University. He has a B.S. degree in International Trade from Wuhan University, China. In his Ph.D. dissertation, he investigated hospital market power and its impact on hospital prices as a result of merger activities. Dr. Gai's primary research interests are in the areas of Applied Econometrics and Health Economics. His work has been published in Health Economics, American Journal of Hypertension, Atlantic Economic Journal, Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds, and Health Financing Revisited: A Practitioner's Guide published by the World Bank and other academic journals. He is referee for many academic journals and conferences including Small Business Economics Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Hypertension, and the World Congress on Health Economics. Dr. Gai's current research focuses on insurance gaps and chronic condition management; impacts of health insurance on entrepreneurship activities; and the importance of preventative health care. In addition to continuing his work in health care, he is also interested in the application of healthcare Econometrics models in entrepreneurial activities, international trade and financial markets such as using survival models to analyze financing options and business performance. Dr. Gai teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level at Babson College. His recent courses are Industrial Organization and Public Policy, Managerial Economics, Econometrics, Customer Markets and Marketing (MBA), Economic and Financial Forecasting (MBA), and Health Economics (MBA).

Professor Harris teaches courses in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Economics of the European Union, Entrepreneurship, and Economics of the Environment. His primary research interests include transitional economies of Eastern Europe, Entrepreneurship and the Environment, and regional growth theory. He has also written several cases for use in the Management Core Program at Babson. Prof. Harris is the former President of NCS Medical Systems and former Vice President of Boston Computer Systems. He taught economics at UMass-Amherst and Bentley University before coming to Babson in 1983.​

Dr. Joglekar has a keen interest in exploring the challenges faced by developing countries as they balance economic growth with environmental considerations. His work pays due attention to the interdisciplinary aspects of related issues such as sustainable development, environmental policy, and the composition of energy resources. Dr. Joglekar's research agenda enables him to delve into a handful of fields within economics including environmental economics, development economics, and public choice theory.

Dr. Joglekar received his masters as well as doctoral degrees in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Connecticut. He majored in Mechanical Engineering during his undergraduate degree from the University of Pune in India. He went on to complete an MBA from the same institution and it was the coursework during his MBA years that sparked his curiosity in the economics of the environment. Dr. Joglekar's previous research endeavors have included Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling of possible carbon taxation in India and the use of that tax revenue to meet development goals. He has also co-authored a book on economic analysis of the management of coastal resources such as offshore wind energy.

Prior to joining Babson's faculty in a full-time position in 2021, Dr. Joglekar taught extensively at institutions such as the University of Connecticut, UMass Lowell, and Boston College. At Babson, he teaches courses in Environmental Economics as well as Principles of Microeconomics.

​​​John Korsak received his BA in Economics and Philosophy from Boston College, his MA and PhD in Economics from Clark University. Korsak has worked as a comptroller in political campaigns and as a product marketing manager for an internet software company. He has been a featured speaker at Comnet, worked on a project to provide an online economics class for the Commonwealth of Virginia and has been a recurring panelist at the Colleges of the Fenway teach-in on global climate change. His fields of interest are poverty research, behavioral economics and statistical measurement. He has taught classes on Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Game Theory, Statistics, Probability and the Economics of Everyday Life. ​

John E. Marthinsen is Professor of Economics and International Business at Babson College in Babson Park, MA, where he holds The Distinguished Chair in Swiss Economics. Dr. Marthinsen earned his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he was awarded Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi academic honors.

His teaching and research focus on the areas of International Macroeconomics, Risk Management, and International Finance, which he teaches at the graduate (MBA), undergraduate, and executive education levels. John Marthinsen was Chairman of Babson College's Economics Division from 1992 to 1998 and, while at Babson, was inducted in the Golden Key Honor Society. He has won multiple teaching awards and is the author of numerous articles and books. among his most recent books are Demystifying Global Macroeconomics (DE G Publishers – Walter de Gruyter, Inc.; 2020), Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives: Third Edition (DE G Publishers – Walter de Gruyter, Inc.; 2018), International Macroeconomics for Business and Political Leaders (Routledge: Taylor & Francis, 2017), Managing in a Global Economy: Demystifying International Macroeconomics: Second edition (Cengage, 2015), Swiss Finance: Capital Markets, Banking, and the Swiss Value Chain – co-authored with Henri Meier and Pascal Gantenbein (John Wiley & Sons, 2013).

Dr. Marthinsen also has extensive consulting experience, working for both domestic and international companies, as well as the U.S. government. He has served on the United Nations Association's Economic Policy Council and lectured at the Universities of Bern and Basel in Switzerland, as well as the University of Nürnberg in Germany. From 2000 to 2009, John Marthinsen was a member of the Board of Directors of Givaudan SA, a Swiss-based flavors and fragrances company, where he served as Chairman of the Finance and Investment Committee and member of the Strategy, Governance, and Audit Committees.

Dr. Kankana Mukherjee teaches Managerial Economics and Business Strategy and Game Theory in the MBA program and Managerial Economics and Industrial Organization in the undergraduate program. Before coming to Babson, she has taught at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Connecticut, and Clarkson University. Dr. Mukherjee's principal research interest is in the area of productivity and efficiency analysis. Her research is empirical in nature and utilizes Data Envelopment Analysis, econometrics, and statistics. She has applied her research to several industries including the banking industry, manufacturing sector, health care industry, and energy. Her research has been published in several leading economics and operations research journals such as the Economic Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Productivity Analysis, European Journal of Operational Research, Empirical Economics, International Journal of Production Economics, Manchester School, Medical Care Research and Review, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Health Care Management Science, Indian Economic Review, and Data Envelopment Analysis Journal among others.​

Dr. Lidija Polutnik is a Professor of Economics at Babson College, where she teaches graduate level courses in managerial economics, pricing, and competitiveness. She served as Chair of the Economics Division from 2005 to 2017. Between 2014 and 2020 she held a Visiting Professor position at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where she continues to hold the Honorary Visiting Professor title.

Dr. Polutnik's research and consulting have focused mainly on pricing, revenue management, and strategic cost management. Her work explores the relationship between costs and customers' value and the influence of this relationship on the firm's financial results and the sustainability of business models. Dr. Polutnik's work contributes to both theory, and practice, and her research has been published in a variety of academic journals including: The European Accounting Review, Advances in Management Accounting, Journal of Cost Management, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, and Industrial Relations Journal. She has received several grants and awards for her work, most recently The Davis Educational Foundation grant for the project entitled "Containing Costs While Enhancing the Educational Mission: A Study of Best Practices for Small Private Colleges."

Dr. Polutnik has extensive consulting and executive teaching experience. She has developed and delivered customized corporate training programs for many companies in the areas of tactical and strategic pricing, and in monetizing innovation with new revenue models such as subscriptions. Her recent work has focused on how firms can create additional revenue streams by using new technologies and by shifting customer preferences toward use, and sharing as opposed to ownership economy. Dr. Polutnik also works with nonprofit organizations on the professionalization of their services with an emphasis on their revenue models and financial sustainability. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors, and the Treasurer of Cambridge Center for Adult Education, the largest adult education provider in Boston. She is also a Board member of the Executive Education at the University of Gothenburg.

Dr. Ricciardi has taught in the economics department, the Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua, and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Venezuela. His research interests include monetary economics, the history of economic thought, and Latin American economic development. He has worked as a research economist in Peru, Central America, and Venezuela, and he served as an adviser to the Central Bank of Nicaragua. During 1990-1991, Dr. Ricciardi conducted research as a William R. Dill International Faculty Fellow and Fulbright Scholar to Venezuela on the financial determinations of the emerging crisis in Venezuelan petroleum-led growth.

Dr. Simon is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Economics Division and the Faculty Director for the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA), where she teaches the core course in econometrics. At the undergraduate level, she teaches Principles of Microeconomics and advanced electives. An economist of education, Dr. Simon's ongoing research concerns various aspects of higher education. She is particularly interested in college students' decision to study economics, effective teaching and learning strategies in economics classes, and mission-driven institutional cost containment including the use of data-driven tools. Before joining Babson as full-time faculty, Dr. Simon taught economics at Boston University and on an adjunct basis at Babson College. Her past research and consulting experience focused on early literacy, effectiveness of STEM initiatives, cost-effectiveness in education, and development and fundraising in higher education. Dr. Simon earned her Ph.D. in economics and education from Columbia University in 2011. She is a graduate of Brandeis University's B.A./M.A. program in economics, where she also earned a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature.

Josh Staveley-O'Carroll completed his Ph.D. at Georgetown University in 2012. Before joining Babson College in 2015, he taught at the University of Richmond, Lander University, and the College of William and Mary. His research focuses on international portfolio choice, pension systems, financial regulation, and international shock transmission; he is also interested in the development and evaluation of economic pedagogy. His researcher appears in the European Economic Review, the Journal of Macroeconomics, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Economics Letter, Empirical Economics, the Eastern Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Education, and the International Review of Economics Education. He has taught Microeconomic Principles, Environmental Economics, Business Statistics, Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomic Theory, Money, Banking, and the Economy, Entrepreneurial Economics, International Finance, and the College Fed Challenge. He teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.

Josh Stillwagon was born and raised in the seacoast area of New Hampshire. He obtained a B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics at the University of New Hampshire in 2005, 2008, and 2013 respectively. His research has been published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Journal of International Money & Finance; Macroeconomic Dynamics (Cambridge University Press); and New England Economic Indicators (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), among others (see CV for complete listing).

His research focuses primarily on international finance and financial economics; examining empirically the determinants of exchange rates, interest rates, and equity prices. In particular, his work relies on two complementary approaches. The first is using data on traders' asset price forecasts to better assess how they forecast and evaluate risk. The second is to use more advanced statistical techniques allowing for big data, non-linear and feedback effects, and changing relationships over time. This work is being done in conjunction with the Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE) program of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

The empirical dimension of his research guides his teaching philosophy as well; striving to relate theory to real world data and illustrating abstract concepts through historical examples.

Before coming to Babson, Josh was an assistant professor at Trinity College in Hartford, CT and a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and the University of New Hampshire. In 2009, Josh served as a consultant on the state budget to the N.H. state senate finance committee, providing revenue forecasts and cost analysis. He has also conducted research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on the employment and innovation impacts of state-level energy policies.

Jorge Tarzijan is a Full Professor at the School of Management, Universidad Catolica de Chile. He has been a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Faculty at Harvard University and Babson College. He holds a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, a Master´s degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Professor Tarzijan's research has been published in leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Business & Society, Long Range Planning, Harvard Business Review, Industrial and Corporate Change. He is also the co-author of several Harvard Business School collection cases and two books (in their third and fifth editions). One of his articles on business model innovation (co-authored with Ramón Casadesus-Masanell) was recently featured in the HBR's ten must-reads on Business Model Innovation. Harvard Business Review Press.

Dr. Megan Way is an Associate Professor in the Economics Division. She teaches graduate Managerial Economics and undergraduate Principles of Microeconomics and Economics of Labor Markets. Her research spans several areas, including family economics and intergenerational financial transfers, gender differences in returns to entrepreneurial activity, and cost-containment in higher education. Other research interests include immigration/migration, remittances and international business networks. Professor Way has also participated in a Boston College study group on economics and evolutionary biology, examining how evolutionary forces may drive preference formation. Prior to going to graduate school, Professor Way spent 8 years as a marketing professional in the software industry, working for Open Environment Corporation, WebSpective Software and Inktomi Corporation. Her work experience includes growing an internet start-up company from the founding stages to maturity, forming international channels partnerships, and coordinating national and international product marketing strategies. She also spent two years teaching in the IDEOR MBA program in Cordoba, Spain.

Professor Jason Wong is an applied microeconomist interested in using quantitative methods to study how different forms of connectivity affect and interact with economic life. Connectivity can be physical, such as through physical infrastructure like electricity and aviation. It can also be non-tangible, such as through language, social networks, public health, and the environment. His work seeks to advance how different forms of connectivity impact regional and sustainable development. His research has been published in World Development, Energy Economics, and Energy Policy, among other peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Wong grew up in Hong Kong and Shanghai, and he joins Babson by way of Los Angeles, London, Berlin, New York, and Washington D.C.. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). This Fall, he is a Visiting Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics.

Professor Wong is an award-winning educator, having won the 2020 London School of Economics Student Union Award for Masters Supervision and the 2017 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He is also passionate about sustainable entrepreneurship education. Since 2021, he has co-directed the Global Circular Challenge at the LSE, a unique case competition that blends circular economy with design thinking.

Prior to Babson, Professor Wong was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Occidental College and LSE Fellow in Environmental Economics. In 2018, he served as an International Parliamentary Fellow at the German Parliament (Bundestag). He holds a PhD from Columbia University. He is fluent in German, Cantonese, and Mandarin and is currently learning French and Japanese.