Meet the 2020 Fellows
Samira Fallah
Samira is in her first year as an assistant professor of management at the University of Mary Washington, where she teaches strategy. She received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology in Iran and her doctorate in management at Louisiana State University. Samira’s dissertation research explored how the political ideology of chief executive officers influence their decisions about firms’ innovations. She uses cases extensively in her classroom teaching.
Adeniyi Olarewaju
Adeniyi is an assistant professor of international business at the School of Business, Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico). He holds a doctorate in management from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. A case on a Nigerian family business seeking to internationalize that he authored as a graduate student was selected as the best case in the Africa business category in the European Foundation for Management Development case writing competition. Adeniyi, who uses cases extensively in his teaching, is especially interested in developing rubrics to assess student performance in case analysis.
Stanley Lim
Stanley is in his second year as an assistant professor of supply chain management at the University of San Diego School of Business. He holds an M.S. in industrial and systems engineering from the National University of Singapore, an M.C.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a doctorate in supply chain management from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). His dissertation used case studies of six companies to build theory on how retailers can configure their last-mile supply networks to best serve e-commerce customers. Stanley is currently developing a series of mini cases for use in his own classroom.
Aditee Prabhakar
Aditee, who is a practicing architect and city planner, is currently completing her doctorate in city planning at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur. For the past year, she has been a visiting research fellow at Narxoz University in Kazakhstan, where she has been mentored as a case writer and teacher by Dr. Anjan Ghosh, founder of the Silk Road Case Centre and a former recipient of a Paul R. Lawrence Fellowship. Aditee’s research interests focus broadly on strategic city planning, and how culture has impacted the development of post-Soviet cities in Central Asia.