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Business & Entrepreneurship

The Business & Entrepreneurship research group is renowned for developing new business models enabled by emerging technologies and shedding light on the economic implications of these technologies. Our triad of partners — Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute — catalyzes high-impact findings through rigorous management science, global technology commercialization, and innovative experimentation.

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Research Labs & Initiatives

From fully-equipped robotics and fabrication labs to initiatives shaping global economic policy and social justice, our labs and initiatives prove what’s possible when world-renowned researchers can experiment freely.

Faculty

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Tommaso Bondi

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Tommaso Bondi is an Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech and the SC Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and a Demir Sabanci Faculty Fellow of Marketing and Management.

Areas of Research:

Economics of digital platforms
Quantitative marketing
Behavioral economics

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., New York University, 2020
M.Sc., Bocconi University, 2013
B.Sc., University of Milan, 2011

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Karan Girotra

Charles H Dyson Family Professor of Management and Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management

Karan Girotra, Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management (OTIM), is the recipient of the Charles H. Dyson Family Professor of Management chair and a Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Johnson School at Cornell University.

Areas of Research:

Artificial intelligence
Digital transformation
Business model innovation
Innovation management
Supply chain management
Entrepreneurship
Sustainable living

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2007
A.M., University of Pennsylvania, 2007
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2002

Research Labs and Initiatives:

Abundant Intelligence Lab
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Cornell FinTech Initiative

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Mukti Khaire

Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice

Mukti Khaire is the Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Johnson School at Cornell University. She is also the Director of the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA program.

Areas of Research:

Entrepreneurship
Creative and cultural industries
Technology, business, and society

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006
MBA, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1999
M.S., University of Pune, 1995
B.S., University of Pune, 1993

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Omid Rafieian

Assistant Professor of Marketing and Demir Sabanci Faculty Fellow of Marketing and Management

Omid Rafieian is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Cornell Tech and the SC Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and a Demir Sabanci Faculty Fellow of Marketing and Management.

Areas of Research: 

Personalization
Privacy
Polarization
Digital marketing
Advertising
Policy evaluation
Causal inference
Machine learning

 

Academic Degrees: 

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2020
B.S., Sharif University of Technology, 2015

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