The Lally School of Management

Timothy Golden’s research focuses on remote work, telework, telecommuting, and virtual interactions. He has conducted research in these areas for over 20 years, during which he has investigated a range of related topics, including performance, professional isolation, work-family conflict, the nature of job tasks, career success, exhaustion, coworker relationships, and knowledge sharing, to name a few.

Professor Ravichandran is an associated faculty member in the School of Engineering and a faculty for the IT program in the School of Science. He teaches course in the graduate and doctoral programs at Rensselaer. He periodically teaches some of these courses in top business schools in Asia and Europe and brings a global perspective to his teaching. His long term research interests focuses on digital strategies of firms and the mechanisms through which digitization is transforming firms, markets, supply networks and industries. His research has been funded by grants from the U.S.

Raffi E. García is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Accounting in the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests are in the fields of financial economics, corporate finance and empirical industrial organization. García’s research focuses on measuring and understanding the effects of regulations and unexpected events or shocks on firm behavior, strategy and performance.

Nishtha Langer is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics (with tenure) at the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She also holds a joint appointment as the Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at RPI.

Dr. Chari's research focuses on strategic and international management issues, including corporate diversification, cross-border acquisitions, consequences of ownership differences, strategy in emerging economies, and strategies of emerging economy firms. His research has been published in premier academic and practitioner journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Long Range Planning.

Dr. McDermott is a Senior Lecturer at the Lally School of Management, with a Ph.D. in Management from the University at Albany’s Department of Organizational Studies and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. She brings extensive industry experience to the classroom, having worked in Technical Marketing at Fairchild Space Company and in product development at Alcatel Network Systems. Her research is deeply informed by her technological background, focusing on business strategy and competitive advantage. Dr.

Shyam Kumar is Professor of Management at the Lally School of Management. His research examines how firms grow and attain competitive advantage through strategic decisions, innovation, and entrepreneurship. His current work focuses on the role of AI and time in organizations. He received his B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. He earned his doctoral degree in Strategy from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Hekimoglu's research addresses interdisciplinary problems at the interface of supply chain management, finance and analytics with an emphasis on managing uncertainty and risk in complex supply chain problems. As a versatile researcher, he employs both mathematical and empirical methodologies in formulating and analyzing problems that exhibit disruption risk as well as uncertainties in various forms (e.g., supply, demand, quality, price, information). Industry collaborations have a key role in his process of developing practically relevant research questions.Dr.