Richard M. Locke

Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Entrepreneurship and
Professor of Political Science

Office: E52-589
Telephone: 617-253-2610
Fax: 617-253-2660
Email: rlocke@mit.edu
Website: http://scripts.mit.edu/~rlocke/

Richard Locke has been a consistent voice for integrating social and economic concerns into curriculum and research. His teaching case on Nike's response to NGO pressures to address labor standards of Nike contractors was selected for teaching at MIT Sloan's 50th Anniversary Convocation. His work has also had an impact on Nike's business practices, helping the company to integrate reporting and auditing labor conditions with its quality improvement efforts. Locke was recently named a 2005 Faculty Pioneer in Academic Leadership by the Aspen Institute. Locke's research focuses on economic development, comparative labor relations, and political economy. At MIT Sloan, Locke pioneered the popular Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a course that teaches students about entrepreneurship in developing countries by placing them in internships with start-ups in an array of companies in various emerging markets. For more information, click here.

Shari Loessberg

Senior Lecturer

Office: E52-562
Telephone: 617-253-5070
Fax: 617-253-2660
Email: sloessberg@mit.edu

Shari Loessberg is an experienced entrepreneur in established and emerging markets. In the US, she founded and runs Big World, a strategy firm focused on new ventures in new markets. She also co-founded Zeta Networks, an optical networking firm built on technology developed at MIT. In addition, Loessberg spent five years in Moscow, where she was a partner, director, and general counsel of Brunswick (now Brunswick UBS), a start-up investment firm in the brutally entrepreneurial Russian equity market. She has particular experience in emerging market venture capital fund formation, entrepreneurship in emerging economies, and the evolving issues and standards of corporate governance in the US and abroad. Loessberg is a director of Onpoint Africa Holdings, an asset management firm investing in pan-African equities; a director of National Financial Partners (NYSE: NFP); chairman emerita of the board of the International Institute of Boston; and chairman of the board of overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Yasheng Huang

China Program Associate Professor in International Management

Office: E52-551
Telephone: 617-253-9768
Fax: 617-253-2660
Email: yshuang@mit.edu
Website: http://web.mit.edu/yshuang/www/

Yasheng Huang's research focuses on international business, political economy and institutional issues. His recently published book, Selling China (Cambridge University Press, 2003) examines the institutional drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China. This book has been profiled in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Economist, Businessworld, Le Monde, Economic Times, and Liangwang (Outlook) in China. Unlike many other studies of FDI in China, this book shows that some of the inefficiencies of China's financial and legal institutions have served to drive up FDI inflows. The principal effect of these inefficiencies is a lowering of the average level of competitiveness of domestic firms, which creates a number of propitious conditions for foreign firms. Huang is extending this way of looking at FDI, examining the competitiveness of domestic firms to other countries by analyzing the institutional environment for local firms and entrepreneurship. He is currently working on projects on private sector development in China and in India and is writing several papers on the institutional determinants of foreign ownership and FDI.

M. Jonathan Lehrich

Lecturer

Office: E53-418
Telephone: 617-253-6011
Email: jlehrich@mit.edu

A graduate of MIT Sloan, Jonathan Lehrich teaches leadership, management, and team skills for G-Lab and serves as course coordinator. Jonathan is also responsible for key international and educational initiatives at MIT Sloan, including the new China Lab initiative and the MIT Sloan-Portugal collaboration, and teaches MBA leadership courses during Sloan Innovation Period. Prior to coming to MIT, Jonathan taught leadership development and management skills for the corporate education firm Linkage, Inc., and served as Executive Director of Operations. A former consultant, Jonathan has also taught at the University of Chicago, where he completed doctoral research in history.

Kenneth P. Morse

Senior Lecturer

Office: E40-196
Telephone: 617-253-8653
Fax: 617-253-8633
Email: kenmorse@mit.edu

Ken Morse has been encouraging new ventures to think globally from the outset since he started his first company in China in 1972. Ken went on to help launch six MIT-related startups including 3Com, AspenTech, and a biotech company. Five did well; one was a disaster. Then Ken joined the MIT Entrepreneurship Center (E-Center) in 1996, under the leadership of its Founder and Chairman, Prof. Ed Roberts. Working with John Preston, Ken helped build the MIT Entrepreneurship Lab Course (#15.399) from 6 to over 100 students per semester. The number of students taking entrepreneurship courses at MIT has grown from about 200 to over 1500 per year. The number of E-Center-related courses has grown from 2 to 21, with a faculty comprised of over 30 members. For more information, click here.

Ken assists Rick, Shari, Yasheng, and Jonathan by teaching some of the G-Lab classes, coaching G-Lab student teams, and helping to recruit G-Lab host companies in the Pacific Rim (China, Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, and New Zealand).

Anjali Sastry

Senior Lecturer

Office: E53-329
Telephone: 617-253-0965
Fax: 617-258-7579
Email: sastry@mit.edu

Anjali Sastry investigates how people make sense of their experiences to guide subsequent action. Noting that individuals, teams, and organizations wrestle with causal models in the course of enacting change, she integrates research in systems thinking, organizational theory, management of change, and other disciplines. Her academic grounding in system dynamics informs her research on organizational change and sustainability, where she's studied organizational responses to environmental imperatives as well as new ideas in social entrepreneurship. Recently, she has been focusing on Global Health Delivery, having partnered with others to develop new materials and offer an introductory course on the challenges and opportunities in delivering needed services in resource-poor settings. Sastry has MIT degrees in Management, Physics, and Russian and has worked as a business strategy consultant, research scientist, and environmentalist in India on carbon emissions reduction strategies.