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Pier A. Abetti

Pier A. Abetti
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — abettp
Name: Pier A. Abetti
Title:Professor of Practice
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
Website:http://lallyschool.rpi.edu/faculty/abettp.html
Bio Dr. Abetti, listed in Who’s Who in America, builds upon a previous managerial career at General Electric across the globe. Professor Abetti is recipient of the Kaufmann Foundation Award for Entrepreneurship Professor of the Year and is an internationally recognized lecturer who has taught students in universities throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.

Dr. Abetti focuses his research efforts on planning and management of technology, technological entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, and new business incubators. Dr. Abetti’s development of the electromagnetic model was awarded GE’s Coffin Award. He has published 150 papers in five languages and authored two books, including Linking Technology and Business Strategy.

He is an Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

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Education Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology; Doctorate in Industrial and Electrical Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy)
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Recognitions:
  • GE’s Coffin Award
  • Kauffman Foundation Award

Bob Albright

Bob Albright
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — albrib
Name: Bob Albright
Title:Professor of Practice, Hartford
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
Website:http://ewp.rpi.edu/academics/lsmt/emba/emba_faculty.html
Bio
Dr. Albright teaches Designing and Staffing Organizations, Leadership and Organizational Development and Strategy, Technology and Competitive Advantage to MBA and Executive Masters Program participants. Bob received his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management and Labor Relations from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Business in 1994. He has been the recipient of Sloan Foundation Grants, and received fellowships at Yale University and the Defense Equal Opportunity and Management Institute. The American Council of Education (ACE) named Bob a “Fellow” for the 1999 – 2000 school year.

Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Albright served as the Associate Dean of Academics at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, as well as Chair of the Academy’s Leadership and Management Department. In addition to teaching at the Coast Guard Academy and Rensselaer, he has taught in Weekend MBA programs in Poland and Slovakia. His areas of expertise include Strategy, Strategic Business Planning, Leadership Development, Survey Research and Conflict Resolution. Dr. Albright has published in a wide array of scholarly journals on such topics as conflict resolution, strategic labor relations and organizational change. His recent book “A Complete Guide to Conflict Resolution in the Workplace” was published by the American Management Association Press (AMACOM). Among other high profile engagements, Connecticut Governor M. Jody Rell appointed Dr. Albright as a special mediator for a conflict involving the New London, Conn. area. Dr. Albright actively consults with a diverse array of public and private sector corporations in the Leadership Development and Strategic Planning arenas. He also serves as a qualified Arbitrator for the State of Pennsylvania Panel of Arbitrators and as an arbitrator for the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.


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Education B.S., Management, U. S. Coast Guard Academy; M.B.A., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Business

Thomas Begley

Thomas Begley
Thu, 2011-12-22 14:08 — Anonymous
Name: Thomas Begley
Title:Dean
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
Website:http://lallyschool.rpi.edu/faculty/begley.html
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Education B.A., Seton Hall University; M.A., in Social Psychology, Cornell University; Ph.D., in Social Psychology, Cornell University

Kristin P Bennett

Kristin P Bennett
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — bennek
Name: Kristin P Bennett
Title:Professor
Department Computer Science Lally School of Management and Technology Mathematical Sciences
School Lally School of Management and Technology Engineering Science
Center Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Data Science Research Center (DSRC) Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research (RECCR)
Website:http://homepages.rpi.edu/~bennek/
Bio Dr. Bennett
is an active researcher in the Mathematical Programming, Operations
Research, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics and Data Mining communities. She is
currently a Professor in the departments of Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science at Rensselaer. She founded and directs the NIH funded TB-Track Project which examines the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis. She is co-PI of RPI's NSF Advance project for the advancement of women faculty at RPI and has expertise in gender issues and faculty advancement.
She was Program
Co-chair of the 2005 SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Conference. She has served as a program committee member of numerous conferences including
SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference, AAAI
Conference, International Conference on Machine Learning, Neural
Information Processing Systems, IEEE Conference on Data Mining,
Computational Learning Theory, and SIAM International Conference on
Data Mining. She is a founding associate editor of ACM Transactions
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. She has organized multiple
data mining and machine learning clusters at INFORMS meetings. She
is a former associate editor of Naval Research Logistics, Machine
Learning Journal, SIAM Journal of Optimization, and IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks. She serves on the advisory board of
the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She has experience
developing data mining approaches for chemistry, biology, and public
health related applications. She is PI and director of a project of the NIH
funded project: Discovering Hidden Groups Across Tuberculosis
Patient and Pathogen Genotype Data. She has one patent for
database indexing to support data mining earned while she was a
visiting researcher at Microsoft Research. She received both the
Rensselaer and NSF Early Career Awards, as well as the Boeing
Distinguished Educator Award for Women and Minorities.
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Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1993
Scholarly Works:
  • J. Zaretzki, C. Bergeron, P. Rydberg, T.-W. Huang, K. P. Bennett, and C. Breneman, �RS-Predictor: A new tool for generating and validating models capable of predicting sites of cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism,�, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, to appear, 2011
  • G. Moore, C. Bergeron, and K. P. Bennett, �Model Selection for Primal SVM�, Machine Learning, to appear, 2011.

Murali Chari

Murali Chari
Thu, 2011-12-22 14:01 — Anonymous
Name: Murali Chari
Title:Associate Professor
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
Website:http://lallyschool.rpi.edu/faculty/charim2.html
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Education MBA, Temple University; M.Com, University of Madras; Ph.D., Temple University

Lei Chi

Lei Chi
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — chil2
Name: Lei Chi
Title:Assistant Professor
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
Website:http://lallyschool.rpi.edu/faculty/chil2.html
Bio Dr. Chi’s research primarily focuses on the intersection of information technology, networks, and innovation.  Her research spans three broad areas: (1) understanding how information technology influences firm innovation; (2) studying the interactions among participants in online communities and the dynamics of how online communities evolve over time; (3) studying how social networks affect entrepreneurial performance. 

Dr. Chi’s research has been funded by grants from Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Office of Entrepreneurship at RPI.

Her research has appeared in a number of academic journals, including Information Systems Research, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Information Systems and e-Business Management, International Journal of Information Management, and Journal of Knowledge Management.
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Education Ph.D., University of Kentucky; M.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology; B.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Andrew C. Corbett

Andrew C. Corbett
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — corbea
Name: Andrew C. Corbett
Title:Associate Professor
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
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Professor Corbett’s research examines behavioral perspectives of the entrepreneurial process and the role of individuals within strategic renewal and innovations efforts within organizations. Currently he is examining how various cognitive scripts affect the process of corporate internal new ventures and how constructs such as improvisation, mindfulness, perspective-taking, and emotions can be better understood with respect to developing new ventures.


His research has appeared in scholarly outlets including the Journal of Business Venturing; the Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice; International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business; Harvard Business Review; Management Communications Quarterly; and others. Professor Corbett’s scholarship has been presented around the globe at all of the leading strategic management and entrepreneurship conferences.


Professor Corbett has been recognized for his excellence in teaching on numerous occasions. In 2004, 2007 and 2009, he was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year by the Lally School’s MBA Class. In 2006, Professor Corbett was presented with an award for Outstanding Curriculum Development by the Lally School. He was awarded the 2005 McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award by the Academy of Management for his development and delivery of entrepreneurship courses.


Professor Corbett also serves the greater community of management scholars in a number of leadership roles.  He has led or been a member of over a dozen committees or tasks forces for the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management where he is currently the chair of the Scholarly Development Committee and a member of the division’s Nominating Committee and Awards Committee.  Professor Corbett is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Management Studies and an editor for Frontiers in Entrepreneurship. He is on the Board of Reviewers for the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference and a member of the editorial board of Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice.  He is a reviewer for another dozen journals.


Professor Corbett serves on the board of a handful of start-up firms and consults with many other organizations. He also serves his community as a volunteer for community-based organizations including Junior Achievement, the Boys Scouts of America, and his local little league.

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Education Ph.D. in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado; M.B.A./International Business, Bentley College; B.S., Suffolk University
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Pindaro Demertzoglou

Pindaro Demertzoglou
Tue, 2010-11-02 11:14 — morris3
Name: Pindaro Demertzoglou
Title:Professor of Practice
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
Bio Professor Demertzoglou’s professional experience includes the development of multiple transactional and DSS systems by using traditional client server and multi-tier architectures. He has both practical and academic experience in technology management. He is actively involved in the process of building industry relationships with commercial and non-profit organizations. In his classes, students have the opportunity to work on real projects with small and big corporations to gain valuable experience and exposure in the business world.

Professor Demertzoglou’s principal research efforts have been in the area of technology adoption in organizations. His ongoing research is focused on both stage and factor models in relation to commercial and open source databases.

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Education Ph.D., State University of New York; MBA, M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; B.S., American College of Thessaloniki

Jeffrey F. Durgee

Jeffrey F. Durgee
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — durgej
Name: Jeffrey F. Durgee
Title:Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Associate Professor
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
Bio Professor Durgee’s courses reflect the dominant trends in the market place and he is influenced by his years of consulting on new product development and brand imagery products for Fortune 500 companies including Procter & Gamble. He offers prizes for the most creative projects his students present. In many instances, they have gone on to work in creative roles in major advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Professor Durgee has worked in the Creative Research Department, Young and Rubicam, and was honored with the NY Times-J. Walter Thompson Advertising Copywriting award.

Professor Durgee presents at national and international conferences sponsored by associations including: the Association for Consumer Research; the Design Management Association; and the Marketing Science Institute. His book, titled Creative Insight; Finding Hidden Needs for New Products and New Brand Positionings, was published in 2005. He currently conducts research on qualitative methods for identifying needs for new products and new brand positionings. Professor Durgee’s work has been published in the Journal of Advertising Research, Psychology and Marketing, Advances in Consumer Research, and a series of similar notable academic journals.

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Education Ph.D. and M.S. in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh; B.A. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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Bill B. Francis

Bill B. Francis
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — francb
Name: Bill B. Francis
Title:Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Faculty Fellow & Professor, Co-director of the Ph.D. Program
Department Lally School of Management and Technology
School Lally School of Management and Technology
Bio Professor Francis conducts his research on issues in initial public offerings, corporate restructurings, and international asset-pricing. He has published numerous articles in reputed finance and economic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Macroeconomics.

He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Financial Stability.
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Education Ph.D., University of Toronto; M.A., York University; B.A., University of Toronto