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Phillip Phan, PhD, is the Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2008. He is a professor in the research track with expertise in the areas of technology entrepreneurship and strategic management.

Rick Smith is the vice dean for education and partnerships as well as a professor of practice. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, he served as the deputy dean of education programs at Singapore Management University, where he was also a professor of strategic management.

Prior to joining academia on a full-time basis, Rick spent more than 30 years in business, primarily in the consulting industry as a senior partner with Accenture, where he held a variety of leadership roles across industries, geographies, and services. During his business career, Rick has had the opportunity to live and work in Asia, Europe, and America with more than 15 years in the growth markets of China, Singapore, India, and Indonesia. In addition to his work with global firms, he also served as the CEO of a start-up in China and has supported several entrepreneurial ventures.

Underpinning Rick鈥檚 research and teaching interests is the focus on human capital as a strategic resource for competitive advantage. He teaches graduate courses on Strategic Management and Human Capital Leadership. As a frequent guest speaker and executive education instructor Rick is the proud recipient of numerous teaching awards. Rick鈥檚 work on cross-border leadership provided significant media attention in Asia where he was featured as a guest on CNBC鈥檚 鈥楽quawk box鈥� and 鈥楾alk Asia.鈥� Recently, he turned his attention to management education and co-authored the book, Rethinking the Business Models of Business Schools.

Rajshree Agarwal is the Rudolph Lamone Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland. Rajshree studies the evolution of industries, firms and individual careers, as fostered by the twin engines of innovation and enterprise. Her scholarship uses an interdisciplinary lens to provide insights on strategic innovation for new venture creation and for firm renewal. She routinely publishes in leading journals in strategy and entrepreneurship. An author of more than 60 studies, her research has been cited more than 10,000 times, received numerous best paper awards, and funded by grants from various foundations, including the Kauffman Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Science Foundation. She is currently the co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has previously served in co-editor and senior editor roles at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Organization Science respectively. She is a senior contributor at Forbes, providing insights for leading purposeful lives, strategy and innovation. She has been featured in major media outlets including the Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and the Baltimore Sun.  She received her Ph.D. in Economics from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 and has previously held faculty appointments at Universities of Illinois and Central Florida.

Dr. Noorbaksh specializes in several areas, such as international politics, global energy and health, and democratic movements and processes in Middle East politics. Dr. Noorbaksh has published extensively on the Middle East politics, including the Foreign Policy Association, Middle East Policy Journal, and the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Noorbaksh鈥檚 most recent academic achievements include receiving his master of business administration and master of health administration (MHA) in 2006 from the University of Houston. Previous to these degrees, Dr. Noorbaksh earned his B.S. in electrical engineering at the University of Texas in 1979 and M.A. in political science from the University of Houston in 1986. In 1996, Dr. Noorbaksh earned both his Ph.D. in government studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a position at Harvard University鈥檚 Center for Middle Eastern Studies as a Post-Doctoral Fellow before joining Harrisburg University in 2006. He is currently working on a number of articles on the Middle East and Iran, and a book on the interaction of Islam, nationalism and democratic change in Iran.

Research Interests: International management and business, Strategic management, Global organizations,鈥� Healthcare systems and Global health, Energy and alternative sources, Risk management, International relationship issues

Jay Jayamohan is a leading expert in disruptive innovation, design thinking, and strategic management. He has worked extensively with Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, the U.S. government, startups, venture capitalists and foundations. As Executive Director of the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Harrisburg University, he is responsible for creating a multi-pronged and interconnected hub that aligns entrepreneurial activities across campus and across disciplines. He leads the effort to establish a permanent center of innovation that strategically positions HU to have a greater impact 鈥� socially and commercially 鈥� by having innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs from and around Harrisburg coming together with students and faculty to collaborate on ideas and solve problems.

He is the founder of RollStream, a Software-as-a-Service company and as CEO grew the company from concept to over 100 people globally, raised tens of millions in venture capital and won numerous accolades including 鈥榯op 100 supply and demand chain vendors in 2008鈥�. RollStream under Jay鈥檚 leadership innovated to define a new space and acquire Fortune 500 customers like Walgreens, Tesco, McKesson and Tyco within the first year of product release. The company was acquired in 2012 by GXS, now OpenText. Jay has broad industry knowledge in Software, Financial, & Manufacturing and international experience in Asia, Europe and Middle East. He has been profiled multiple times in press including Washington Post, Business Journal etc. and is a speaker at local business events. Jay Holds an M.S in Management from George Mason University and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Justin L. Davis teaches in the Department of Business Administration and conducts research in several fields.

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington, where his major was Strategic Management and his minor was International Business. His dissertation focused on corporate entrepreneurship. He also holds a Master鈥檚 of Business Administration from Texas Tech University and a B.B.A. from Dallas Baptist University.

He has won several research awards, including two from the Southern Management Association for his Doctoral Student Paper related to mutual fund ethics.  Most recently he won best paper at the Small Business Institute conference.  

His work at UWF has examined factors tying sports gambling markets to management, organizational ethics, social capital, and various aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation processes.

Davis has also given over 20 presentations at professional conferences, including a recent presentation of his research on 鈥淭he Role of Overconfidence in the New Venturing Process.鈥�

His professional interests include Status Anxiety, Entrepreneurial Orientation, Determinants of venture capitalist investment; International business entry mode choices; and Non-profit entrepreneurial behavior.

Davis鈥檚 work has been published in over a dozen outlets, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, American Journal of Business, Small Business Economics, Journal of Prediction Markets and other professional publications.