Meet the master program faculty

Country of origin: Russia 

School where PhD/training was completed: Humboldt University Berlin 

Current research area/focus:  Leveraging advanced analytics to understand consumer behavior and devise environmentally sustainable strategies 

"The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight."  

Country of origin: Turkey  

School where PhD/training was completed: London Business School  

Current research area/focus: Operational Innovation in Healthcare  
"You can't manage or improve what you can't measure." 

Name: Urs Mueller 
Country of origin: Germany/Switzerland 
School where PhD/training was completed: University of Goettingen 
Current research area/focus: Business ethics 
“Analytics and AI will shape our future – for the better or worse. I am rather optimistic, but business will need to contribute to turn them into drivers of societal benefit.” 

Country of origin: Turkey, Canada 
School where PhD/training was completed: Columbia University, New York, USA 
Current research area/focus: Human-AI collaboration, sustainable operations 
My course will not focus on predictions and predictive analytics, but rather prescriptive models and strategies for improving sustainability of business operations. 

Country of origin: France 
School where PhD/training was completed: The University of Melbourne, Australia 
Current research area/focus: Social Network Analysis 

Classes taught in the MAAI/MIE/MGM: Managing Organizations and Organizational Analytics 
 

Name: Merih Sevilir 
Country of origin: Turkey/USA 
School where PhD/training was completed: INSEAD 
Current research area/focus:entrepreneurship, gender gaps in leadership and entrepreneurship, healthcare finance, mergers and acquisitions 
Classes taught in the MAAI/MIE/MGM: Financial Management and Entrepreneurial Finance 
Fun fact:(not really a fun fact, but kind of interesting fact). Studied, lived and worked in 5 countries in the last 20 years (England, France, USA, Italy and Germany).  
Short quote connected to the course one is teaching in the MSCs, ESMT in general, or the MSC program(s) one is teaching in generally speaking: it lays the foundations of modern finance theory based on Nobel Prize winning theories in financial economics. Using finance theory to understand the creation and growth of entrepreneurial startups

Name:  Matt Bothner 
Country of origin: United States 
School where PhD/training was completed: Columbia University 
Current research area/focus: semantic network analysis; status measured through eigenvector centrality 
Classes taught in the MAAI/MIE/MGM: Status and Organizations: Approaches to Leading with Agility  
Fun fact: I played basketball in the junior Olympics  
Short quote connected to the course one is teaching in the MSCs, ESMT in general, or the MSC program(s) one is teaching in generally speaking: “Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers 

Name: David Ronayne 
Country of origin: UK 
School where PhD/training was completed: PhD University of Warwick; post-doc University of Oxford. 
Current research area/focus: Industrial Organization and Behavioral Economics 
Classes taught in the MAAI/MIE/MGM: Business Economics (core) 
Fun fact: Not sure what to put, can you tell me what others wrote and I’ll think of something similar? 

Short quote connected to the course one is teaching in the MSCs, ESMT in general, or the MSC program(s) one is teaching in generally speaking: We will explore business-relevant economic concepts and results, bringing them to life through applications and interactive exercises. The questions we will address range from the fundamental, e.g., “What are the benefits of a free market?” to the practical, e.g., “How should you price a product line?”