Faculty

Dr Jonathan E. Booth

Lecturer for: Negotiation and Decision Making

Dr Jonathan E. Booth joined the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group in August 2009. He received his PhD in Human Resources and Industrial Relations at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he was a consultant in information technology, change management, and training development for firms such as Intel, Marriott International, and Wells Fargo. He also has a BSc in Business Administration from Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Dr. Booth has taught courses in the areas of organisational behaviour, human resources, negotiations, and labour relations. Some of Jonathan’s research interests include workplace victimisation, victimised employees’ cognitive and emotional appraisals and coping choices, employee volunteer programmes, and union membership and civic engagement.

Professor Amitav Chakravarti

Lecturer for: Marketing Strategy

Amitav Chakravarti is Professor of Marketing within the department’s central academic group. Prior to his appointment at LSE, Professor Chakravarti was an Associate Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University, where he taught the marketing core course for full-time MBA graduates and the introduction to marketing course for undergraduates. He received a BA in Economics from the University of Bombay, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (New Delhi), and a PhD from the University of Florida. Prior to his PhD he worked with advertising agency JWT and the Indian Market Research Bureau in India.

His primary research areas include consumer decision making, consumer search and screening behaviour, generic vs. brand advertising, consumer behaviour in high-uncertainty markets, consumption of products with a Corporate Social Responsibility-association, and effects of physical environments on people’s thoughts and choices. Professor Chakravarti’s research has been published in leading journals like the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

In recognition of his research contributions, he was recently awarded the inaugural Google-WPP Marketing Research Award, the Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar Award (awarded by MSI to faculty members who are “likely leaders of the next generation of marketing academics”), and the Advanced Research Techniques Forum Best Paper Award. He also serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Consumer Research. Recently, along with some co-authors, he was awarded two European Commission grants for research on designing cigarette packs to deter smoking, and designing consumer friendly labels to encourage uptake of hybrid cars, respectively.

Professor Saul Estrin

Lecturer for: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the Age of Change

Professor Saul Estrin is a Professor of Management and Founding Head of LSE’s Department of Management. He was formerly Adecco Professor of Business and Society at London Business School where he was the Research Director of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets and Director of the CIS Middle Europe Centre. Saul was also Deputy Dean (Faculty and Research) at London Business School for six years and a School governor for eight years. Saul has considerable practitioner experience. He is currently a Non-executive director of Barings Emerging Markets and was previously a member of the Academic Panel of the postal regulator, Postcomm. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, European Union and OECD, DfID and NERA. He has taught executive programmes for a large number of major companies including BA, BT, Lloyds TSB, Marks and Spencer, Vauxhall, Powergen, Deutsche Bank, ING Barings, Swedbank and ABN-AMRO Bank.

Professor Saul Estrin also teaches on the TRIUM programme; recently ranked amongst the best eMBA programmes in the world by the Financial Times. TRIUM is a global partnership between LSE, NYU Stern and HEC Paris.

Saul has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Michigan Business School, Cornell University and the European University Institute. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the IZA and the William Davidson Institute. He has published numerous papers in scholarly journals and edited, for several years, Economic Policy and Business Strategy Review.

Dr Barbara Fasolo

Lecturer for: Strategic Decision Making for Management

Dr Barbara Fasolo is Associate Professor in Behavioural Science in the Department of Management at LSE. She currently serves as Head of the Behavioural Research Lab and Director of the Executive Master's in Behavioural Science.

She is an expert in behavioural decision-making, behavioural change, behavioural public policy, with a specific interest in digital nudging and choice architecture.

Her background is inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural: Economics (BSc, Distinction, Bocconi University, Italy), Decision Sciences (MSc, Distinction, LSE, UK), and Experimental Psychology (PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA). She was Visiting Professor at IESE Business School (2012/13, Barcelona), Expert-in-Secondment for the European Medicines Agency (2009-12, London) and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development (2002-04, Berlin).

Barbara’s research has been published in more than 50 outlets, including leading academic journals, (PNAS and the Annual Review of Psychology), books and invited chapters, and has been covered in media outlets such as Harvard Business Review. She is a member of the International Behavioural Science and Policy Association, Society of Judgment and Decision Making and the European Association of Decision Making.

Her lab, online and field research aims at tracing and improving difficult choices faced by patients, consumers, and experts (e.g., for the European Medicines Agency, the King’s Fund, and the European Commission). Barbara interacts with several organisations keen to seize new behavioural opportunities and serves on the Department of Health Behavioural Insights Expert Advisory Panel.

Dr Susanna Khavul

Lecturer for: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the Age of Change

Dr Susanna Khavul is an enthusiastic educator and researcher whose work with innovators, investors, and policymakers keeps the connection between theory, evidence, and practice real.

Susanna is the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at LSE and a Visiting Senior Fellow in its Department of Management. She is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington and, previously, was an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. Susanna holds a Doctorate in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from Boston University and a degree in Economics from UC Berkeley (with LSE in the mix).

Susanna leads entrepreneurship and innovation programs for executives, MBAs, and PhDs. She is a 2013 winner of the University of Texas System Regents-Outstanding Teaching Award and earlier teaching recognition from the Foundation for Entrepreneurial Management at the London Business School.

An important strand of Susanna’s research answers questions about how innovative firms compete in a global economy. The Academy of Management recognised her with the IDEA Thought Leader Award and the prestigious Heizer Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Research. She has published widely, is on editorial boards of top entrepreneurship journals, and in the leadership of the Entrepreneurship Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society.

Susanna has worked with entrepreneurs and innovators for two decades. She started her career advocating economic policy reform. She later established, financed, and built an economics and business development network spanning 17 countries. She has been a senior member of a venture capital and investment banking firm, where she specialised in high technology seed finance.

Professor Gilberto Montibeller

Lecturer for: Strategic Decision Making for Management

Professor Gilberto Montibeller is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Management, at the London School of Economics and a Professor of Management Science at Loughborough University. With a first Honours degree (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering (UFSC, Brazil, 1993), he started his career as a junior executive at British and American Tobacco. Moving back to the academia, he was awarded a Masters (UFSC, 1996) and a PhD in Engineering Economic Analysis (UFSC/Univ. of Strathclyde, 2000). He then continued his studies as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Management Science, at the University of Strathclyde (2001-2002). 

He is an expert on Risk and Decision Analysis, with an extensive experience in applying it for more than 20 years, consulting to both private and public organisations in Europe and South America. He is Area Editor of the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and is on the editorial boards of the Informs Decision Analysis and European Journal of Decision Processes journals. He has published widely the field, in journals such as Risk Analysis, the European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Support Systems and OMEGA – The International Journal of Management Science. The quality of his research has been recognised with best publication awards by Informs, the Society of Risk Analysis, and the International Society of Multi-Criteria Decision Making. He has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Southern California, and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria). He is a visiting professor at the Paris-Dauphine University (France) and the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Professor Montibeller has extensive experience with executive education, both for in-company training, as well as for MBA programmes.

Dr Emma Soane

Lecturer for: Achieving Leadership Excellence | Managing Risk in Organisations

Dr Emma Soane joined the Organisational Behaviour group at LSE in September 2008. Emma is interested in how personality influences leadership, interpersonal interactions, risk taking and engagement with work. Emma has a BSc Psychology (University of Leicester), an MSc Occupational Psychology and a PhD in Psychology (University of Sheffield). She is a Chartered Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist. Emma worked in several NHS mental health and learning disability services before joining London Business School then Kingston Business School. She has travelled and worked in more than 40 countries.  While at LSE, Emma has been the Programme Director for the MSc Management, the Academic Director of the CEMS MSc International Management, and taught leadership and organisational behaviour courses to postgraduates and executives. Emma also teaches on the TRIUM programme and the Executive Global MSc Management.

Dr Lourdes Sosa

Lecturer for: Designing Strategy for Competitive Advantage

Dr Lourdes Sosa joined LSE as Associate Professor in the Department of Management in 2013. Prior to LSE, she spent seven years at the London Business School where she taught in the MBA, Executive MBA, Master’s in Management and Executive Education programs. She received her PhD degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. Prior to her academic career she worked in R&D management at General Electric and General Motors.

Lourdes studies technological discontinuities, a pervasive phenomenon in which a radical change in technologies disrupts a market, a phenomenon commonly referred to as creative destruction. In her work she uses technological discontinuities as an opportunity to contribute to mainstream strategy's objective of explaining within-market differences in firm performance. Furthermore, by looking at variation in the ability of established firms to adapt to a radical change in technologies, she also finds an opportunity to contribute to research on organizational change.

She is specifically interested in understanding the competitive dynamics of the R&D race that ensues through a technological discontinuity, thus her current interest on the pharmaceutical industry and the biotechnology revolution.

An active member of the Academy of Management, INFORMS, and the Industry Studies Association, she has won awards from these associations for her research. She is currently in the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Journal.