PEOPLE

OFFICERS

Ken Jacobson, Director of Communications

Ken Jacobson, Director of Communications

Ken Jacobson is a California-based journalist who has been a reporter and editor for a number of publications covering business, ...
Marie Carpenter, Vice-President

Marie Carpenter, Vice-President

Marie Carpenter is a full faculty member in strategy at Télécom École de Management in Paris, France. She has been ...
Öner Tulum, Executive Director of Research

Öner Tulum, Executive Director of Research

Öner Tulum is Executive Director of Research at the Academic-Industry Research Network, and a research affiliate of the William R ...
William Lazonick, President

William Lazonick, President

William Lazonick (professor of economics emeritus at University of Massachusetts) is co-founder and president of the Academic-Industry Research Network. He ...

RESEARCHERS

The research team at theAIRnet currently includes academics and industry experts based in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Singapore, and China. Our industry expertise is mainly in communication technology, pharmaceuticals, alternative energy, aerospace, and automobiles. In the area of industrial innovation, we have distinguished ourselves by our understanding of investment strategy, organizational learning, and corporate finance, while in the area of corporate financialization, we have been leaders in researching the deleterious practice of stock buybacks and its relation to stock-based executive pay.

Andrés Cárdenas

Andrés Cárdenas

Andrés Cárdenas O´Farrill received his first economics degree at the University of Havana. He started his career as an economist ...
Andrew Schrank

Andrew Schrank

Andrew Schrank received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 2000 and is currently the Olive C. Watson Professor ...
Antonio Andreoni

Antonio Andreoni

Antonio Andreoni is Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London. His research focuses on production and business enterprises; technological ...
Christine Oughton

Christine Oughton

Christine Oughton is Professor of Management Economics and Head of the Department of Financial and Management Studies at SOAS, University ...
Christopher Mackin

Christopher Mackin

Christopher Mackin is the founder and President of Ownership Associates. He has worked professionally in the field of employee ownership ...
Dan Breznitz

Dan Breznitz

Professor Dan (Danny) Breznitz (PhD MIT) has extensive experience in conducting comparative in-depth research of Rapid-Innovation-Based Industries and their globalization ...
Edward March, Ph.D.

Edward March, Ph.D.

Edward (Ed) March is a visiting Professor at Dartmouth College in the graduate Engineering Management program sponsored by the Thayer ...
Ellen Chappelka

Ellen Chappelka

Ellen Chappelka is a Master of Public Health Student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Health ...
Emre Gömec

Emre Gömec

Emre Gömeç is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Sciences department at the University of Kassel and a Ph.D. fellow ...
Henrik Glimstedt

Henrik Glimstedt

Henrik Glimstedt, an associate professor at Stockholm School of Economics, is a noted academic and advisor to high-tech corporations. His ...
James P. Elliott

James P. Elliott

Jim Elliott has worked in the plastic and ancillary manufacturing industries for 43 years. His experience ranges from factory application ...
Joshua Weitz

Joshua Weitz

Joshua Weitz is a research associate at The Academic-Industry Research Network and, as of September of 2017, a graduate student ...
Kai Pless

Kai Pless

Kai Pless is a research associate at the Institute for the History and Future of Work (Institut für dieGeschichte und ...
Kaidong Feng

Kaidong Feng

Kaidong Feng’s research interests include Technological Learning and Catching-up under developing circumstances, Evolution of National Innovation Systems, and Science and ...
Ken Jacobson, Director of Communications

Ken Jacobson, Director of Communications

Ken Jacobson is a California-based journalist who has been a reporter and editor for a number of publications covering business, ...
Kenneth J. Lipartito

Kenneth J. Lipartito

Kenneth J. Lipartito is Professor of History at Florida International University.  He has held academic positions at Middlebury College, Rice ...
Lenore Palladino

Lenore Palladino

Lenore Palladino is assistant professor in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics and a research associate at the UMass ...
Leonhard Kersten

Leonhard Kersten

PhD candidate and Researcher, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord & The Academic-Industry Research Network (theAIRnet) Leonhard Kersten is a PhD candidate ...
Les Leopold

Les Leopold

After graduating from Oberlin College and Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs (MPA 1975), Les co-founded the Labor ...
Lynn Stuart Parramore

Lynn Stuart Parramore

Dr. Lynn Stuart Parramore is Senior Editor at AlterNet, where she is Director of the New Economic Dialogue Project. She ...
Marie Carpenter, Vice-President

Marie Carpenter, Vice-President

Marie Carpenter is a full faculty member in strategy at Télécom École de Management in Paris, France. She has been ...
Marie Christine Duggan

Marie Christine Duggan

Marie Christine Duggan is Professor of Economics at Keene State College. She earned her B.A. in International Relations from Tufts ...
Martyn Roetter

Martyn Roetter

Dr. Martyn Roetter is a management consultant and advisor to high technology business executives, regulators, and investors on matters involving ...
Maryann P. Feldman

Maryann P. Feldman

Maryann P. Feldman is the Watts Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Watts College of Public Service and ...
Matt Hopkins

Matt Hopkins

Matt Hopkins is a senior researcher at the Academic-Industry Research Network. His research interests include the innovation process, executive compensation, ...
Michael Hillard

Michael Hillard

Michael Hillard has taught and written about the history of US corporate governance, and especially the pernicious effects of financialization ...
Mustafa Erdem Sakınç

Mustafa Erdem Sakınç

Mustafa Erdem Sakinç is assistant professor of economics at Université Paris 13 and a researcher at Centre d’Economie de l’Université ...
Öner Tulum, Executive Director of Research

Öner Tulum, Executive Director of Research

Öner Tulum is Executive Director of Research at the Academic-Industry Research Network, and a research affiliate of the William R ...
Philip Moss

Philip Moss

Philip Moss is an economist and Professor in the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at the University of ...
Rosie Collington

Rosie Collington

Rosie Collington is a Junior Researcher with the Academic-Industry Research Network and MSc student at the University of Copenhagen. She has ...
Safi Shams

Safi Shams

Safi Shams, PhD is a social historian who is primarily interested in structural transformation and emergence in the cultural, economic ...
SHIN Jang-Sup

SHIN Jang-Sup

SHIN Jang-Sup is an economics professor at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include technology and innovation, East ...
Sophie van Huellen

Sophie van Huellen

Sophie van Huellen Sophie van Huellen is a Lecturer in Development Economics at the Global Development Institute (GDI) at the ...
Susan Helper

Susan Helper

Susan Helper is the Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve ...
Susan Holmberg

Susan Holmberg

Susan Holmberg is a political economist and the Senior Editor and Researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. She shapes ...
Tea Petrin

Tea Petrin

Tea Petrin was a Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Head of the Entrepreneurship Department at the Faculty of Economics, and ...
Ulrich Jürgens

Ulrich Jürgens

Ulrich Jürgens is the Scientific Head of the “Institut für Arbeit und Personalmanagement“ (IFAP) of the Volkswagen AutoUni since 2009 ...
Ulrike Schaede 

Ulrike Schaede 

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy. She ...
William Lazonick, President

William Lazonick, President

William Lazonick (professor of economics emeritus at University of Massachusetts) is co-founder and president of the Academic-Industry Research Network. He ...
Yin Li

Yin Li

Yin Li is PhD student at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as Professor ...
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