The Responsible Innovation & Entrepreneurship Research Initiative is housed in the Lam Family College of Business, but relies upon the interdisciplinary expertise and generosity of scholars from various departments in the college, across the local region, country, and internationally.
Initiative Leadership
Minu Kumar is a Professor of Marketing at the LFCoB and is the Founder-Director of the Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Initiative. He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the Government College of Pharmacy (Bangalore University, 1996), a Masters in Business Administration (Concentration in Pharmaceutical Marketing, 2002), and a Ph.D. in Marketing (minor: pharmaceutical marketing, 2008) from the University of Mississippi. Professor Kumar has published in journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management among others. He has also worked for or consulted with firms such as Barilla, SAP, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals (Now Daiichi Sankyo), Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals (Now Merck), Medtronic, Glaxo Smithkline, among others on product design & development, sales, and marketing projects.
Chenwei Li is the Director for Engagement for the RI&E Initiative and a Professor of Management at the LFCoB. She received her Ph.D., with a concentration in Organizational Behavior, from the University of Alabama. Her primary research interests focus on leadership, employee voice, and creativity. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management Journal, and Journal of Business Ethics, among others. Chenwei received the Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management in 2020 and the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professorship Award from LFCoB for 2021 to 2023. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Ethics and Management and Organization Review. Chenwei teaches leadership and human resource management courses in MBA and undergraduate programs. She has also led leadership training workshops for managers at different levels across a variety of companies and cultural settings.
Partners
RI&E collaborates with companies, institutes, and faculty from various parts of the world to bring its programmatic elements to life. A few examples (not exhaustive) are listed: Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation, Meta, Wageningen University & Research, Salesforce, Macau University of Science and Technology, Stanford University, Babson College, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, University of New South Wales, University of Warwick, University of Washington, Google, Mays Business School (Texas A&M), Open AI, Eindhoven University, EADA Business School, University of Tennessee (Knoxville), University Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Hong Kong Baptist University among others.