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Dr. Vinnie Jauhari |
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Vinnie Jauhari Ph.D, is M.Sc.
(Hons.) in Electronics from Panjab University, Chandigarh and
MBA (Gold Medalist) (Marketing). She received her Ph.D. on
Corporate Entrepreneurship from Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi and her Post-Doc from the United Nations University, Tokyo
in the area of Technology and Society. Dr Jauhari is Region
Lead- India HP Labs Open Innovation Office Hewlett-Packard
Company. She is also currently Adjunct Professor and has been
earlier the Head of the School of Management and
Entrepreneurship at IIMT. She is also the Founding Editor of the
Journal of Services Research, which features in the EBSCO
database and Proquest. She has over seventy publications in
National and International Journals. She has also authored books
such as Business Strategy, Services Management, Readings in
Services Management, Her forthcoming book, “Global Cases on
Hospitality Industry” is being published by Haworth Press, New
York. Her area of expertise is Corporate Entrepreneurship,
Strategy and Technology issues. She is widely traveled and has
been a speaker at numerous International Conferences. She is
involved with numerous international projects on Technology and
has been a frequent visitor at IIASA, Laxenburg. She is on the
Editorial Board of International Journal of Contemporary
Hospitality Management. She is a reviewer for Technovation and
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.
She has also edited Special Issue of International Journal of
Contemporary Hospitality Management.
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Dr. Mark N.K.
Saunders |
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Mark N.K. Saunders BA, MSc, PGCE,
PhD, MCIPD, is Professor of Business Research, Method, Assistant
Dean and Head of Research at Oxford Brookes University Business
School. He is also a visiting professor at Newcastle Business
School, University of Northumbria. Prior to this he was Head of
the Human Resource Management Research Centre at Gloucestershir
Business School. He is a chartered fellow of Chartered Institute
of Personal and Development, member of Higher Education Academy,
member of British Academy of Management, and director of
Research Network Steering Group. He currently teaches research
methods to masters and doctoral students as well as supervising
masters dissertations and research degrees. Mark has published a
number of articles on research methods, service quality, and
trust and organizational justice perspectives on the management
of change. He is co-author with Phil and Adrian of Research
Methods for Business Students, Employee Relations: Understanding
the Employment Relationship and with Adrian, Phil and Mike
Millmore of Managing Change: A Human Resource Strategy Approach,
both published by Financial Times Prentice Hall, and has also
co-authored a book on business statistics. He has undertaken
consultancy in public, private and not-for-profit sectors prior
to which he had a variety of research jobs in local government. |
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Dr. R. Craig Coulter |
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Dr. Coulter is a robotics
scientist focused on the commercialization of intelligent
robotics technologies. He began his work at the National
Robotics Engineering Consortium (NREC), where he organized a
project with Ford Motor Company to commercialize a
revolutionary vision-based position estimation system that
he co-invented. He co-founded Highlander Systems, Inc., a
vision systems engineering company; Tpresence, Inc., an
early distributed computing company, where he served as CEO;
and Mammoth Ventures, a firm focused on the development of
new robotics-related intellectual property, where he
currently serves as Managing Partner. In 2001, Dr. Coulter
co-founded HyperActive
Technologies, Inc. Dr. Coulter holds a Ph.D. in
Robotics from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science,
as well as three other engineering degrees from Carnegie
Mellon.
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