Melissa Schilling

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/melissa-schilling

Professor Schilling’s research focuses on innovation and strategy in high technology industries such as smartphones, video games, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electric vehicles, and renewable energies. She is particularly interested in platform dynamics, networks, creativity, and breakthrough innovation.

She is an author of 'Quirky', and 'Strategic Management of Technological Innovation'.

Beth Beckhy

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/beth-bechky

Professor Bechky is an ethnographer who studies interactions and dynamics at organizational and occupational boundaries. She is interested in how workers collaborate to solve problems, coordinate their activities, respond to surprises and innovate. Professor Bechky is the co-editor of Qualitative Organizational Research and was formerly a senior editor at Organization Science. Her research interest is in micro-sociology of work.

Robert Seamans

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans

Professor Seamans' research focuses on how technology and governance structures affect strategic interactions between firms, affect incentives to innovate, and ultimately shape market outcomes. Most of his research settings are industries characterized by multi-sided markets. His research has been published in leading academic journals and been cited in numerous outlets including The Atlantic, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and others.