Research Faculty

Under the leadership of the Research Director, Professor Nandini Rajagopalan, the Greif Center maintains an extensive network of affiliated Research Faculty and Doctoral Students from across the Marshall School and USC to promote interdisciplinary research in entrepreneurship. The Center also regularly hosts Visiting Researchers.

Nandini Rajagopalan

Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship
Director of Research, Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Professor of Management and Organization
Phone: 213-740-0750
Fax: 213-740-3582
Email: nrajagop@marshall.usc.edu

Nandini Rajagopalan is the Capt. Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management and Organization in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Her research examines CEO succession and strategic change, boards of directors, corporate governance in emerging economies, corporate diversification, and R&D alliances and innovation in the biopharma industry. Her work has been published in several scholarly journals including the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of International Business Studies. Professor Rajagopalan has received many awards for her research, teaching, and service contributions, including the Mellon Faculty-to- Faculty Mentoring Award (USC), the Golden Apple Teaching Award (Marshall MBA Program), and the Evan C. Thompson Faculty Leadership and Mentoring Award (Marshall School). She is a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at USC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, past Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal, and editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and California Management Review.

• Kathleen Allen, Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Center for Technology Commercialization
• Jack Barcal, Accounting
• Phil Birnbaum-More, Management and Organization
• John Boudreau, Center for Effective Organizations
• Tom Chang, Finance and Business Economics
• Tom Cummings, Management and Organization
• Shantanu Dutta, Marketing
• Peer Fiss, Management and Organization
• Mendel Fygenson, Information and Operations Management
• Nan Jia, Management and Organization
• Peter Kim, Management and Organization
• Lan Luo, Marketing
• Ann Majchrzak, Information and Operations Management
• Kyle Mayer, Management and Organization
• Yong Paik, Management and Organization
• Vincenzo Quadrini, Finance and Business Economics
• Gerard Tellis, Marketing
• Allen Weiss, Marketing
• Helena Yli-Renko, Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
• Jonathan Yormark, Information and Operations Management
• Feng Zhu, Management and Organization

• Eunice Rhee, Management and Organization - Winner of the 2011 Greif Doctoral Student Research Award
• Vern Glaser, Management and Organization - Winner of the 2012 Greif Doctoral Student Research Award
• Yongzhi (Alex) Wang, Management and Organization
• Derek Harmon, Management and Organization