Module 1: Managing Information and Technology in Responsible Digital Transformation

Margeret Hall is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Business Analytics at the WU Vienna. Before this she was an Assistant Professor of IT Innovation University of Nebraska at Omaha and she completed her Postdoc and PhD positions at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her contributions broadly focus on computationally mediated participation, seeking to understand how vulnerable individuals are influenced by malicious online content, for instance, success factors in phishing or misinformation campaigns. This research is a novel combination of applied machine learning, cyberpsychology, and theories and techniques from online communities research. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked at the United Nations Office in Geneva and at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Audit and Legal Affairs, and at Bayer Business Services in Training and Process Management. She completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Policy studies in the United States, Germany, Lebanon, and Switzerland.

Contact: margeret.hall@wu.ac.at

Module 2: Changing Lenses: Value Creation and Value Capture in the Post-digital Future

Yoshinori (Yoshi) Fujikawa is Associate Professor and Faculty in Charge of External Affairs at Hitotsubashi University Business School’s School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS) and serves a number of government committees and professional institutions. From 2006 to 2020, he led the school’s MBA Program as the faculty director and helped bring the program to the “#1 in Japan” rank (QS Global MBA Ranking 2019 and 2022). He also served as Associate Vice President for International Affairs (2018-2020). Prior, he was Lecturer and Research Assistant at Pennsylvania State University. He also worked as Research Associate at the Mind of Market Laboratory and the Division of Research, both at Harvard Business School. His business experience includes marketing research and strategic consulting work with Olson Zaltman Associates. Yoshi received his BA in Economics and MA in Commerce from Hitotsubashi University; his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his PhD in Marketing from Pennsylvania State University.

Contact: yfujikawa@ics.hub.hit-u.ac.jp

Module 3: What do Information Technologies do to Organizations?

Pierre Laniray is an Assistant Professor of Management & Organization Studies at Dauphine PSL (Paris, France). His research interest include the digitalisation of work and its influence on the construction, consolidation and evolution of professional identities. He is a member of the Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS) focused on collaborative communities and collaborative movements involved in new work practices (i.e. slashers, nomadic workers, teleworkers, entrepreneurs, …). His teachings deal with the digital transformation of work, as well as new business models in the "age of digital platforms".

Contact:pierre.laniray@dauphine.psl.eu

Module 4: Ethical data-driven business models

David Murillo holds a PhD in Sociology by the University of Barcelona. BA in Humanities, and BS in Business Administration. Prior to joining ESADE, he has worked in the financial, public and non-for-profit sectors. Currently Associate Professor of the Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University, he conducts research for the Institute for Social Innovation of the same school in areas like digital social innovation, business ethics and critical management studies. He has been visiting scholar or guest lecturer at different universities or business schools like Stanford (USA); Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (Germany), Copenhagen Business School (DK), ESAN and Pacifico University (Peru) or Sogang Business School (Korea).

Contact: david.murillo@esade.edu

Module 4: Ethical data-driven business models

Obaid Amjad is a PhD candidate in Management Science at the Esade Business School. He holds a Master of Research in Management Sciences from the Esade School of Business, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University. Prior to pursuing his academic career, Obaid worked as a Strategy Consultant at IBM Canada. His research interests relate to investigating the political economy of the digital sphere and the data extractivism of digital platforms. More specifically, he investigates alternative organizing and power relations associated with datafication and digital transformations, data activism and data protection regulations. He has presented multiple works of his at various conferences such as Academy of Management (AoM), European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), International Association for Business and Society (IABS), Society for Business Ethics (SBE) and Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).

Contact: obaid.amjad@esade.edu

Module 5: The Social and Ethical Impacts of Digital Transformations: A Techno-Historical Perspective

Veronica Barassi is anthropologist, and Professor in Media and Communication Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen, as well as the Chair of Media and Culture in the Institute for Media and Communications Management. She is the author of three books, and her articles have appeared in top-ranked journals. Her most recent research investigated the impact of children’s data traces on their civic rights, and the meaning of a society which ‘datafies’ its citizens from before birth. It featured in international mainstream media such as The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, CBC, Business Insider (Italy) and many other outlets. Prof. Barassi has been invited to give talks at leading universities in the U.S. and the U.K. In 2018, she submitted her research as evidence to the Information Commissioner’s Office of the UK Government for the development of age appropriate design code.

Contact: veronica.barassi@unisg.ch

Module 6: Living Digital Transformation

Mark Findlay is a Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, and Director of its Centre for AI and Data Governance, where he is a Professorial Research Fellow. In addition, he has honorary professorial visitorships/fellowships in the law schools at the Australian National University, the University of Edinburgh, York University, and the University of New South Wales, as well as being an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law.  Professor Findlay is the author of 29 monographs and collections and over 150 refereed articles and book chapters.  He has held Chairs in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, England, and Ireland. For over 20 years he was at the University of Sydney as the Chair in Criminal Justice, the Director of the Institute of Criminology. 

Contact: markfindlay@smu.edu.sg