ISOI People

ISOI Leadership Team

William Ocasio

ISOI Director
James F. Towey Professor of Business and Leadership

Matthew Kraatz

ISOI Associate Director
Merle H. and Virginia Downs Boren Professor in Business Administration

Joseph Mahoney

ISOI Associate Director
Professor of Business Administration and Caterpillar Chair of Business

ISOI Scholars

ISOI Scholars and Affiliates have been chosen for their outstanding research. ISOI Scholars' research is central to ISOI's mission to conduct, sponsor, and promote world-class research and thought leadership in strategic organizations, which builds upon Gies College of Business' distinguished history and reputation in both organizational behavior and strategic management.

Gopesh Anand
Professor, Business Administration

Research: Operations Strategy, Continuous Improvement

Michael Bednar
Associate Professor, Business Administration
Director of Experiential Learning

Research: Corporate Governance, Boards of Directors, Tom Management Teams

Richard Benton
Associate Professor, Labor & Employment Relations

Research: Organizational Theory, Economic Sociology, Inter-organizational Networks

Marcelo Bucheli
Professor, Business Administration

Research: Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment; International Business History; Multinational Corporations

Joseph Clougherty
Professor, Business Administration

Research: Mergers & Acquisitions, Anti-trust policy, quality-management standards

Melissa Graebner
Robert C. Evans Endowed Professor of Business Administration
Director, INQUIRE

Research: Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy in Entrepreneurial Firms

Carlos Inoue
Assistant Professor, Business Administration

Research: Strategic Management, Organizational Governance, Public-Private Interactions

Olga Khessina
Associate Professor, Business Administration

Research: Evolution of Organizations and Industries, Market Emergence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Jeffrey Loewenstein
Professor, Business Administration

Research: Creativity, Negotiation

E. Geoffrey Love
Associate Professor, Business Administration

Research: Social Evaluations, Organizational Change, Downsizing

Arkadiy Sakhartov
Associate Professor, Business Administration; Academic Co-Director, Hoeft T&M

Research: Organizational Innovation, Corporate Diversification

Michael Roach
Associate Professor, Business Administration

Research: Technology Entrepreneurship, Scientific Labor Markets

Mario Schijven
Assistant Professor, Business Administration

Research: Organizational Learning, Decision Making, Organizational Restructuring

Sonali Shah
Associate Professor, Business Administration; Associate Professor, Carle Illinois

Research: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Creation and Diffusion of Technologies

Deepak Somaya
Diane and Steven N. Miller Professor in Business Administration

Research: Strategy and Competitive Advantage from Knowledge Assets

Pranav Gupta
Assistant Professor, Business Administration

Research: Collective Intelligence, Machine Theory of CI, Computational Social Science

Yusaku Takeda
Assistant Professor, Business Administration

Research: How Technology, Politics, and Social Issues affect Organizations

ISOI Affiliates

ISOI Affiliates body of research is relevant to ISOI's mission.

Joe Bradley
Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Shinjinee Chattopadhyay
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Joseph Cheng
Research Professor of Business Administration

Yilang Feng
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Jack Goncalo
Professor of Business Administration and Area Chair of Organizational Behavior/Business Law and A. Robert & Helen P. Seass Fellow

Christie Hayne
Associate Professor of Accountancy and PwC Faculty Fellow

Denise Lewin Loyd
Professor of Business Administration and Vernon Zimmerman Faculty Fellow

Mark Peecher
Executive Associate Dean of Faculty and Research and Arthur R. Wyatt Chair in Accountancy

Aric Rindfleisch
John M. Jones Professor of Marketing and Executive Director of Illinois MakerLab

Carlos Torelli
Department Head and Anthony J Petullo Professor of Business Administration

Ron Watkins
Associate Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Clinical Professor of Business Administration

Oscar Ybarra
Professor of Business Administration and Academic Director for the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society and Center for Professional Responsibility Fellow

ISOI Student Affiliates

ISOI Student Affiliates are nominated by ISOI Scholars and Affiliates for their outstanding research potential that is relevant to the initiative’s mission.