Rohit Aggarwal
("
Putting Money Where the Mouths Are: the Relation between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth
") is an Assistant Professor at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. His research interests include studying the avenues and challenges posed by User Generated Content (UGC) on businesses. Specifically, he investigates the underlying processes/conditions that alter the influence level of UGC on final business outcomes. His research helps firms and institutional investors in understanding the value of UGC and finding out ways to better utilize UGC. He is also interested in investigating online reputation mechanism designs that shape both the generation and utilization of UGC.
Animesh Animesh
("
Using Real Options to Investigate the Market Value of Virtual World Businesses
") is an Assistant Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada. He studies the adoption, design, and impact of Internet technologies and electronic commerce. Animesh has a PhD from University of Maryland, a Master's in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor's degree in Business Studies from Delhi University. His research has been published in top journals, such as
Information Systems Research
,
MIS Quarterly
, and
Marketing Science
.
Sinan Aral
("
Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity
") is an Assistant Professor and Microsoft Faculty Fellow at the NYU Stern School. His research focuses on social contagion and how information diffusion in massive social networks affects information worker productivity, consumer demand and viral marketing. He received his BA from Northwestern, holds master's degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard, and received his PhD from MIT. His papers are available at
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~saral
Linda Argote
("
The Learning Curve of IT Knowledge Workers in a Computing Call Center
") is the David M. and Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at The David A. Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University. She received her PhD from The University of Michigan. Her research addresses organizati...

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