Faculty

Andreas is best known for his work on consumer engagement and communication strategies, brand management, and service innovation. His current research projects are on the engagement of consumers in different business contexts, including e-commerce and healthcare, the management of brand extension portfolios for greater firm value as well as the positive feedback effects of far brand extensions.

Franklin joined Imperial in 2014 from his role as the Nippon Life Professor of Finance, Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises.

Charles is the editor and co-author of Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future, published by Imperial College Press in September 2015. In his corporate career, Charles was most recently Head of Structuring and Valuation for Alternative Energy at BP plc, where he managed a team responsible for analysis and financing of large renewable energy projects in North America, Europe and Asia.

David’s current research focuses on the setting of monetary policy in the wake of the financial crash and explores the nature of unconventional policy and the links to financial stability. He is also analysing the evolution of the housing and mortgage markets over the long term. David is involved with the co-ordination between monetary policy and financial stability. One strand of research which reflects this is on the use of macro-prudential policy tools and, specifically, the setting of bank capital requirements.

Erkko’s current research interests are in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship policy (notably, National and Regional Entrepreneurial Ecosystems), innovation ecosystems, innovation momentum strategies, business model innovation and innovation from Big Science. In August 2015 a web-based technology practitioner community voted Erkko one of the top 100 entrepreneurship professors who have influenced venturing practice worldwide.

Ileana’s research focuses on how material artifacts and practices influence cognitive processes – including sensemaking and sensegiving, categorisation, and perceptions of organisational and professional identities – within organisations. She investigates these themes in design-based companies – e.g., Alessi, Kartell, Alfa Romeo, Piaggio, and Ducati – and in Product and Service Design consulting firms – Continuum Innovation, IDEO, Live Work, Engine Service Design, etc.

Jonathan’s research interests are growth, productivity and innovation in the knowledge economy and he has published papers on these topics in a number of journals. He is interested in exploring how best to measure and understand the contribution of investment in “intangible” or “knowledge” assets (such as software, design and R&D) to the economy, and what, if any, public support should be provided for such spending, especially public spending on the science base.

Kalyan’s research interests are in network and service design, data analytics, revenue management and pricing. He has previously taught at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University and the Department of Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.   

Mark’s research focuses on the emergence of new markets and industries and the more basic building blocks of organising—categories, identities, forms, strategies, practices, reputation criteria and so on. Within this broad topic, he pays particular attention to meaning construction processes, often by using text-mining techniques to extract and analyse patterns of association among actors, ideas and objects as they appear in conventional and new social media.

The central focus of Sankalp’s research is in the areas of Organisational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), Leadership, and Interpersonal Trust. Specifically, he is interested in the role of both individual factors (motivational orientations anchored in promotion vs. prevention-focus) and situational factors anchored in promotion vs. prevention (e.g., leadership, trust). In addition, Sankalp is also interested in examining the “nature vs. nurture” debates with regard to behaviours in organisations.