2025 Directors
Luis Ballesteros
About Luis
Luis Ballesteros is Global Business Career Development Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. His research focuses on the impact of disruption in market and nonmarket strategy. Luis holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Management from The Wharton School and a Master’s in International Development from MIT. His studies have been published or are forthcoming in top-tier journals in strategy and management and recognized by academic and professional institutions. Throughout his career, Luis has sought to apply theoretical insights and data science to tackle significant challenges affecting organizations and societies around the world. Prior to his academic career, Luis worked in financial derivatives at JP Morgan and Santander Bank, and in industry development at the United Nations Development Program. He has also consulted for the World Bank on disaster risk management and for S&P500 companies on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Luis actively participates in advisory programs aimed at empowering owners of small and medium enterprises from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds.
Heather Berry
About Heather
Heather Berry is the Dean’s Professor of Strategy and International Business position at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She completed her B.A. in Political Science at McGill University, followed by an M.Sc. in International and European Politics from Edinburgh University, and a Ph.D. from UCLA’s Anderson School, focusing on Strategy & Organization and International Business. Prior to her academic pursuits, Berry worked on Capitol Hill as a Ways and Means Committee Associate in the U.S. House of Representatives, giving her practical insights into policy-making. This experience laid a foundation for her academic focus on strategic management and international business, particularly in the context of multinational corporations. Her research has been published in prestigious journals, including the Academy of Management Journal and the Strategic Management Journal. Beyond research, Berry serves as a Senior Editor at Organization Science and has held editorial positions with the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies. Recognized for her teaching and research excellence, Berry was awarded the George Washington University Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence and is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business. Additionally, her role as a Special Sworn Employee at the Bureau of Economic Analysis and recipient of the ASA/NSF/BEA Fellowship underscores her commitment to applying her academic expertise in practical economic analysis.
2025 Senior Fellows
Aline Gatignon
About Aline
Aline Gatignon is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Business Policy at HEC Paris. She completed her Ph.D. in Strategic Management at INSEAD, and previously received a M.A. in Development Economics and a B.A. in Political Science from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po).
Her research explains how firms can form cross-sector partnerships (i.e., with public and non-profit sector organizations) to create and capture value in emerging markets. Her work sheds light on the mechanisms through which such cross-sector collaborations can successfully enhance the knowledge and capabilities of partner organizations by addressing socio-economic and political challenges to their operations. Her research connects individuals, the organizations they belong to and the institutional environments of emerging markets. The empirical settings that Aline studies include cosmetics and banking in Brazil, logistics and healthcare partnerships in Africa, Latin America and Asia, Corporate Social Responsibility in India, and corporate disaster response worldwide.
Her research and pedagogical case studies on this topic have been recognized with several awards, including the Strategic Management Society Best PhD Paper Award and the European Foundation for Management Development case study competition award. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Strategic Management Journal.
Aseem Kaul
About Aseem
Aseem is the Mosaic Company-Jim Prokopanko Professor for Corporate Responsibility at the Carlson School, University of Minnesota, which he joined in 2009, having completed his PhD in Management from the Wharton School. Aseem’s research focuses on the relationship between firm scope and capabilities, examining how new capabilities and technologies are best governed and organized, and how the organizational boundary choices firms make impact their subsequent innovation. More recently, Aseem has also been exploring the social and political strategies firms adopt to influence their business environment, focusing specifically on the consequences of such strategies for social welfare.
Aseem’s research has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. Aseem serves as Associate Editor at the Strategic Management Journal, and sits on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategy Science, and Strategic Organization. His research has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice award from the Academy of Management’s BPS Division, as well as multiple honorable mentions from the Strategic Management Society, and he is currently the Associate Program Chair for the Strategic Management Society’s Entrepreneurship & Strategy Interest Group. Prior to joining academia, Aseem worked as a consultant with McKinsey and Company’s New Delhi office.
Colleen Cunningham
About Colleen
Colleen Cunningham is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Eccles Business School at the University of Utah. Colleen studies innovation, entrepreneurship, and corporate strategy. She is interested in how established firms and new ventures access the resources necessary to commercialize new technologies, how firms construct and implement innovation strategies, and the relationship between innovation and performance. Colleen’s research is quantitative and typically focuses on the medical device, pharmaceutical, and energy industries.
Howard Kunreuther (In Memoriam)
About Howard
Howard Kunreuther was an authority in behavioral economics who developed a wealth of scholarship that has impacted how societies manage low-probability, high-consequence events related to technological and natural disasters. He was the James G. Dinan Professor Emeritus in the Operations, Information, and Decisions Department and Co-Director of the Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Kunreuther joined Wharton in 1972, and his career at the University of Pennsylvania was marked by contributions that extended far beyond the Ivy League. His research in risk management and insurance captured the attention of global leaders and policymakers, making him a sought-after adviser for numerous prestigious organizations.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a distinguished fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and a recipient of the 2015 Shin Research Excellence Award from the Geneva Association and International Insurance Society (IIS) for his seminal work on public-private partnerships in risk mitigation and management.
Kunreuther served on the National Academy of Sciences’ committees on Analysis of Costs and Benefits of Reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program and the Roundtable on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events. As a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 5th Assessment Report, he made significant contributions to understanding climate change policies. Additionally, his role on the Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC) under FEMA further underscores his influence on national risk management strategies.
His recent publications include “Insurance and Behavioral Economics: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry,” “The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters,” and “Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How Companies are Coping with Disruption,” co-authored with GLOB~S’ fellow Michael Useem.
Professor Howard Kunreuther’s enduring legacy is evidenced by his substantial contributions to our lab’s mission to develop evidence-based approaches for economic development.
Laszlo Tihanyi
About Laszlo
Laszlo Tihanyi is the William Alexander Kirkland Professor of Strategic Management in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. Before joining Rice, he was the Roberts Chair in Business at Texas A&M University. He held visiting positions at Duke University, Indiana University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the University of Groningen, and the University of Melbourne. He teaches courses about international corporate governance (MGMT 663), stakeholder risk management (MGMT 662) for MBA students and organization theory (BUSI 540) for PhD students. Laszlo Tihanyi’s current research explores the involvement of institutional investors in foreign direct investment, the institutional environment of internationalization decisions, and the effects of social movements on multinational firms. His papers have been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and others. He is a former Editor of the Academy of Management Journal.
Michael Useem
About Michael
Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and Faculty Director of the McNulty Leadership Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on management and leadership, and he offers programs on leadership and governance for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He works on leadership development with many companies and organizations in the private, public and non-profit sectors. He is the author of The Leader’s Checklist , The Leadership Moment, Executive Defense, Investor Capitalism, Leading Up, and The Go Point. He is also co-author and co-editor of Learning from Catastrophes; co-author of The India Way, Leadership Dispatches, Boards That Lead, and The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap; and co-author of Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies (2017), Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy (2018), and Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How Companies Are Coping with Disruption (2018).
Niren Chaudhary
About Niren
Niren Chaudhary is the founder of RA-inspired leadership LLC, a startup that offers services from Coach to Mentor to Speaker, leveraging Niren’s 40-year experiences in hospitality and food retail.
Niren was the Chairman of the Board of Panera Brands, which is comprised of Panera Bread, Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros Bagels. Previous to joining Panera Brands, Niren served as Chief Operating Officer and President of Krispy Kreme where he implemented a new operating model to elevate consistency across the global brand and created a path for enterprise value growth of 3x over 5 years. Prior to that, he spent 23 years at Yum! Brands serving in global leadership positions including Global President of KFC and President of Yum! India.
Oscar A. Ishizawa
About Oscar
Oscar A. Ishizawa is a Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist in the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice at the World Bank. His work is focused on disaster risk finance and disaster risk management policy development projects as well as co-leading the work on building disaster risk analytical tools and knowledge to inform operational engagements, including understanding the causal relationship between disasters and poverty. He is leading projects in the LAC and AFR region. Oscar has over 10 years of experience in the development of disaster risk assessment and modeling and has been working for more than eight years as a specialist in the area of disaster risk management. Previous to joining the Bank, he worked as a consultant for the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance, the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He was a also post-doctoral researcher with the Computational Seismology team at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a group associated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Computer Science. Oscar holds a Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering from the Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP), a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and a Bachelor’s in Physics and Mathematics from the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6).
Ray Mataloni (In Memoriam)
About Ray
Ray Mataloni was the Assistant Division Chief for Research and Analysis of the Balance of Payments Division at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. With over three decades of dedicated service, Ray’s expertise in measuring and analyzing the U.S. economy, particularly in international economics and foreign direct investment, was unparalleled. He was a respected member of the NBER Conference on Research on Income and Wealth and the OECD Working Group on International Investment Statistics. Additionally, he served as an adjunct professor of economics at the University of Mary Washington. Ray Mataloni’s contributions to economic research and analysis have left a lasting impact on the field. He will be remembered for his dedication and unwavering commitment to advancing economic knowledge.
Roberto Matus
About Roberto
Roberto Matus is Vice President and Head of Latin AmericaGovernment Relations at MetLife, a global provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. In his role, he leads the U.S. support for MetLife’s government and industry relations for the company’s international businesses inLatin America. Matus represents MetLife’s interests before U.S.and foreign governments, and manages relationships with international trade and industry associations. Matus holds a professional degree in Commercial Engineering and has completedpost-graduate studies in the U.S. in the areas of international trade and strategic management.