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Mitrabarun Sarkar
Title: Professor of Strategy and Innovation & Stauffer Research Fellow
Department: Strategic Management
Office: Alter Hall 543
Phone: 215.204.5708
E-mail: mbsarkar@temple.edu
MB Sarkar’s (Ph.D. Michigan State University; MBA Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; BA (Economics) St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi) research interests lie in innovation strategy, technology entrepreneurship, and emerging economies. His work has been published in several top-tier journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. MB serves on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of International Management. He has won several awards for his research, including the prestigious 2005 Academy of Management Journal’s Best Paper Award. He is currently researching how MNCs reinvent their business models through innovation initiatives in emerging markets; how knowledge protection strategies impinge on open innovation efforts; how the effect of scientist turnover on a losing firm is influenced by the social and knowledge structures within the organization; and how incumbents play industry disruptors, among others. MB is currently serving as the elected Program Chair of the Entrepreneurship & Strategy interest group of the Strategic Management Society. His teaching interests lie in Strategic Innovation and Global Strategy. At Fox, he won the Professional MBA 2008 Professor of the Year. MB is leading the India Research Initiative, an effort to enhance the capacity of Indian management scholars to publish high quality research. MB co-chaired the Strategic Management Society’s Special India Conference in December 2008 in collaboration with Prof CK Prahalad as the convenor. He is also on the SMS steering committee that is planning a special conference to commermorate Prof Prahalad’s many contributions to strategy scholarship and practice. MB is a Charter Member of the Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), Hyderabad Chapter. He is also a visiting professor at business schools in Europe and India. Prior to joining academia, MB had founded a media company in India which produced television programs, corporate films and advertising commercials.
Webpage: http://astro.temple.edu/~mbsarkar
