Along with the influence of The Arabian Nights on 19th-Century French Literature, Balzac and La Comdie Humaine, Louissas research interests include Alf Layla wa Layla, the Orient, Levantine and Modern Middle Eastern Literature, and Lebanese Francophone writers.
Academic Division: Operations and Information Management
Lecturer
Academic Interest / Expertise
Innovation management; Intellectual property strategy; Predictive models for decision making in law practice; Quantitative methods, technology and law;
F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
Academic Interest / Expertise
Entrepreneurship; New Venture Creation; Nascent Ventures; Angel Financing; Venture Capital Financing; Gender and Entrepreneurship; Healthcare Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy
Environmental governance, Amazonia, Social Movements, Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Sustainable Development, Climate Politics, Water Management, Dams, Renewable Energy, Critical race and feminist studies
Strategy, Strategic Human Capital, Human Capital Resources, Social Capital, Social Networks, Healthcare, Problem Solving, Management Consulting, Mentorship and Coaching
Capital Markets; Design of Security Exchanges and Trading Systems; Financial Markets; Market Structure and Trading Costs; Mutual Funds and Money Management; Securities Law and Finance
Disruptive Change and Enterprise Transformation; Science, Technology, and the Enterprise; High Technology Marketing; Pricing: Pricing in the Information Industries
British & American Romanticism; Gothic Literature; Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature & the Irish Literary Revival; Urban Literature and Culture; Women Writers
Academic Division: Operations and Information Management
Senior Lecturer
Academic Interest / Expertise
Entrepreneurship of all kinds with a focus on new product or process Innovation. Digital innovation including the use of artificial intelligence, IoT, and blockchain.
Professor Graham's creative and research interests include poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing on the human perception and experience of Nature and the nonhuman, and pedagogy as it pertains to the intersections between human discourse and sustainability.
Management and Organizational Behavior; Executive Coaching and Developmental Coaching; Leadership; Leadership Development; Strategic Human Resource Management; Talent Management; Career Management
International Economics; Trade Policy; World Trade Organization; International Trade Law; Protectionism; Trade Policy; Global Trade and Economic Institutions
Lewis Family Distinguished Professor in Social Innovation
Academic Interest / Expertise
Sociology of Entrepreneurship; Technology Entrepreneurship; Academic Entrepreneurship; Founding Teams; Growth and Scaling Businesses; Social Innovation
Effects of Memory and Mental Representation on Consumer JudgmentsPsychology of Magnitude Judgments: Distance (temporal, physical, social), Intensity, Size, SpeedScale Design and Response BiasDigital Interface Design (implications based on the interests above)
International Security: deterrence and coercion, insurgencies and political violence, causes of war, and alliances. Comparative Politics: civil-military relations, bureaucracy, Chinese politics, and North Korean politics.
Composition theory and pedagogy; multimodal production; digital composing; assemblage theory; histories of composing; archival studies; critical literacies; text technologies
Knowledge about human and technological innovations as well as patented inventions for and about entrepreneurs, doing business globally, accounting, and taxation.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of French and American literature and include the literary correspondence of 20th century French and American intellectuals.
Business Development; Business to Business Marketing; Entrepreneurial/Professional Selling; Sales Force Management; Selling to Women; Customer Relationship Management
Hispanic literature and cultural studies, global film, hardboiled detective fiction and film noir, and new narrative formats such as the contemporary surge in auto/biographical fiction
Academic Division: Operations and Information Management
Professor
Academic Interest / Expertise
Innovation Strategy; Culture of Innovation; Innovation Implementation and Scaling; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Service Strategies and Customer Experience Innovation
Louis J. Lavigne, Jr. '29, P'92 Term Chair in Strategy and Planning
Academic Interest / Expertise
Social Entrepreneurship; Sustainable Entrepreneurship; International Business Law; Global Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Strategic Alliances
Literary Modernism, Sound Studies, Audiovisuality, Literary and Film Theory, Poetics, Intellectual History, Classics, Fantasy Literature and Magical Realism
Academic Division: Operations and Information Management
Adjunct Lecturer
Academic Interest / Expertise
Business Analytics; Data Management & Visualization; Educational Technologies; Innovation; Design Thinking; Web Design and Development; Marketing; Strategy
Early Modern English Language, Literature, & Culture; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, including Shakespeare; Cultural Materialism; Feminist Literary Criticism & Theory; History of Sexuality (including Queer Theory); English Lexical Culture (Philology, Lexicography, Keywords).
Macroeconomics; Financial Economics; International Economics; International Capital Asset Pricing Model; International Finance; Money & Banking; Economic Education
Business Law; Sustainability; Sustainable Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Global Environmental Issues; Socially Responsible Investing