MB Sarkar
Temple University

• Special Conference Rio Advisory Board Member
• India Special Conference Organizing Committee - Co Chair
• Associate Program Chair of Entrepreneurship & Strategy IG

MB Sarkar (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is currently an Associate Professor of Strategy & Stauffer Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He is the Program Chair of the Strategy & Entrepreneurship IG of the SMS for the Rome conference. His research interests, which revolve around strategic issues in the context of innovation, technology entrepreneurship, and emerging economies, has been published in several top-tier journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and Journal of International Business Studies among others. MB Sarkar serves on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal. In a current project, he is investigating how multinationals are reinventing themselves through innovations in emerging markets. MB Sarkar co-chaired the highly successful Strategic Management Society’s Special India Conference in December 2008. He is a charter member of the The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), Hyderabad Chapter. He is also a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Prior to joining academia, MB had founded a media company in India which produced television programs, corporate films and advertising commercials.