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Andrew Isaak studied economics at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and completed an MBA in International Business at Pace University in New York. He recently submitted his PhD dissertation in Management at the University of Mannheim. He has 6 years of teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has been nominated for the Best Paper Award of the RENT Entrepreneurship conference and received the Best Reviewer Award from Junior Management Science. Previously, he coordinated the behavioral economics lab at the University of Heidelberg's Alfred Weber Institute and founded the crowdfunding startup Tommoko UG. In 2016 he spent four months on a scholarship as visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2017 he became a future research scholar at Plymouth University (UK), focusing on social entrepreneurship. He has work experience in management consulting for the airline industry and German government and in marketing for Procter & Gamble brands. He has also published a book, several peer-reviewed book chapters and conference papers.

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A chartered management accountant and member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), UK since 2005. Started career as an Assistant Accountant with Ghana Water Company in August 1990. The last industry position held was acting CEO of UTRAK Capital Management an investment company helped formed in July 2012. University teaching started in 2006 and taught at the following universities in Ghana; Christian Service University College, KNUST Business School, UEW Business School Kumasi, Ghana Technology University and University for Development Studies Tamale, before accepting appointment at SolBridge International School of Business in September 2013.

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BI (Byung-Ik) Jung is an assistant professor at SolBridge International School of Business and Director of Management Planning Division.

Before teaching at SolBridge, Professor Jung worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group for five years. He also worked for LG Electronics as a strategist for Air-Conditioners and Energy Solution Company.

Professor Jung holds an MBA degree from INSEAD and earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Seoul National University. He is currently pursuing a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) at IE Business School with an emphasis on social entrepreneurship.

He gives special lectures to private companies, public offices, and entrepreneurs and he is a member of the advisory board of Korea Social Innovation Finance.

His professional and scholarly interests include entrepreneurship, start-up, social innovation, critical thinking, and business consulting.

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Kushal Sharma is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management and International Business at SolBridge. His research centers on talent management in international organizations, with a special focus on multinational corporations. He is particularly interested in exploring how organizations formulate talent strategies and policies to manage their talent pools and how individuals belonging to such talent pool interpret their talent management practices. He studies the impact of talent strategies on employee attitudes and behavior.

Prior to starting his academic career, Professor Sharma worked as a human resource manager and also as an independent human resource consultant. He holds a PhD in Business Administration (expected January 2017) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration Research from ESSEC Business School, France and a Master’s in Business Administration from Kathmandu University School of Management, Nepal.

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Dr. Mahmood Awan joined SolBridge in 2011. He earned his BS from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, his MBA from Alabama A & M in Huntsville, Alabama, and his Ph.D. from Northcentral University in Prescott Valley, Arizona. His Ph.D. is in Business Administration with a major in Internet Marketing. He also is a Chartered Marketer (CM) from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) of the U.K.

As we can see, he has been moving around for his education which gave him a great appreciation for diversity. Before starting his academic career, he has been working with a number of multinational and other small firms in their Marketing departments for around ten years in Southern California.

Before joining SolBridge, he taught at University of Dubai for over twelve years. Some of the online marketing courses which he has delivered include Internet Marketing, Principles of Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Global Marketing, and International Marketing Strategies.

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Nurmukhammad Yusupov is an Assistant Professor of Finance at SolBridge International School of Business. His research focuses on financial markets and institutions in developing economies. In addition to many years of university level teaching, he has extensive experience in consulting governmental agencies and international development organizations. Dr. Yusupov holds an MBA from University of Oregon, an MSc from Toulouse School of Economics and a Ph.D. from University of Nantes

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Ravi Kashyap has worked as a Product Manager / Quantitative Strategist at various financial service firms in New York and Hong Kong including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, His most recent assignment was at IHS Markit, heading up their quantitative products suite for Asia Pacific, helping clients select securities, generate alpha and minimize their transaction costs.

His Doctoral thesis is about uncertainty and unintended consequences in the financial markets. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University and an undergraduate degree from the National Institute of Technology Calicut, India.

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Bob Graff is a Senior Lecturer in the Management Department of SolBridge International School of Business. His courses center on the application of business theories to real life situations. As such, the majority of his courses focus on the examination of current business practices as evidenced through student research on contemporary events and, simulation of student generated business operations.

Prior to joining SolBridge, he spent 30 years in the external accounting profession building and leading teams of Information Technology specialists consulting to leading international companies such as 3M and Ecolab in the US and, Samsung, LG, Posco during his 15 years as a partner with Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, Korea. He also was a frequent guest lecturer to several of Korea’s leading universities (KIAST, Jung Ang, HUFS) on the topic of IT Auditing.

Bob is a graduate of the University of Minnesota’s, Carlson School of Management where he earned an MBA in the field of Management Information Systems. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Korean branch of the Institute of Systems and Controls Association and has been an active member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

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Sangwoo Shin is Assistant professor at the Solbridge International School of Business. Prior to joining Solbridge faculty, he served as Assistant professor of Marketing at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He earned BBA and MBA from Seoul National University and Ph.D. in Marketing from University of Rochester. His research interests lie in quantitative modeling in Marketing including dynamic consumer decision under uncertainty, strategic firm decision in the direct marketing context, conjoint analysis, and applied Bayesian statistics.

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Taylan Urkmez is an Assistant Professor in Marketing at SolBridge International School of Business. His research interests focus on luxury marketing, fashion, cross-cultural research on consumer behavior, and emotions. To date his research has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals. He is from Turkey and completed his Ph.D. at University of Kassel in Germany.

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Xiangcai Meng is an Assistant Professor of Economics at SolBridge International School of Business. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from National Graduate Institute For Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Japan in 2015.

His research focuses on macroeconomics and labor economics. He employs calibrated dynamic stochastic or deterministic general equilibrium models with market imperfections to examine both positive and normative questions in economics.

His research papers are published in international peer reviewed journals such as Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (SSCI), Japan and the World Economy (SSCI), and Annals of Economics and Finance (SSCI).

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He received his bachelor’s of science degree in economics from Dokuz Eylul University Izmir/Turkey. He got his MA degree in economics from University of Missori-Kansas City. He obtained a Ph.D. from State University of New York-Binghamton with specializing areas of Industrial Organization and Public Regulation and Monetary Theory and Policy. He worked for Ankara University, Baskent University/Ankara/Turkey (for about four years), Alfred University (for two years), Girne American University in Cyprus, and Lefke European University in Cyprus. He primarily lectured in following undergraduate and graduate courses: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics, Applied Statistics, Econometrics, Monetary Theory and Policy, Industrial Organization and Public Regulation, Economics of European Union, Managerial Economics, Privatization and Public Regulation. He also had administrative duties at Ankara University. He served as a chairperson of the economics department for three years at Ankara University. He also served as The Director for Health, Sports and Culture Department of Ankara University. He has been the board of the director at Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science for about 15 years. He has conducted many projects, directed master’s theses and Ph.D. dissertation, written many articles and published them scientifically respected journals, published books. He is actively playing tennis and skiing, and likes doing many other sports. He has never smoked and drunk alcoholic beverages in his life. He is married and has two children.