Sheila M. Puffer is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston. She is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. In 2015, she was a visiting research professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where she interviewed Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and other professionals from the former Soviet Union about their contributions to the US innovation economy. Dr. Puffer has more than 160 publications, including eighty refereed articles and eleven books. She has been recognized as the leading scholar internationally in business and management in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe according to a 2005 Journal of International Business Studies article. She also ranks as the most published author (tied with coauthor D. McCarthy) in the Journal of World Business from 1993 to 2003. She has been ranked in the top 5 percent of authors worldwide who published in the leading international business journals from 1996 to 2005, according to a Michigan State University study. She is fluent in French and Russian. She earned a diploma from the executive management program at the Plekhanov Institute of the National Economy in Moscow, and she holds a BA (Slavic Studies) and an MBA from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a PhD in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Daniel J. McCarthy is University Distinguished Professor and the Alan S. McKim and Richard A. D’Amore Distinguished Professor of Global Management and Innovation at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, and is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is cofounder, codirector, and chair of the strategy advisory council of Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education. Additionally, he is cofounder of the Northeastern University Venture Mentoring Network and a member of the steering committee, as well as a board member for IDEA, the Northeastern University Venture Accelerator. Dr. McCarthy has more than 110 publications, including four editions of Business Policy and Strategy, as well as Business and Management in Russia, The Russian Capitalist Experiment, and Corporate Governance in Russia. He served as the lead director of Clean Harbors, Inc., a multibillion dollar NYSE-listed company, and has consulted in North America and Europe for more than forty companies. Early in his career, he was cofounder and president of a public company, Computer Environments Corporation, and served as a director on its board and also on the board of its sister public company, Time Share Corporation, as well as on a number of private company and nonprofit boards. Dr. McCarthy ranks as the most published author (tied with coauthor S. Puffer) in the Journal of World Business from 1993 to 2003, and he has been ranked in the top 5 percent of all authors worldwide who published in the leading international business journals from 1996 to 2005, according to a Michigan State University study. He is also one of the top three scholars internationally in business and management in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, based on a Journal of International Business Studies article analyzing publications in thirteen leading journals from 1986 to 2003. Professor McCarthy holds AB and MBA degrees from Dartmouth College and the Tuck School of Business, and a DBA from Harvard University.

Daniel M. Satinsky is a business consultant and independent scholar. For more than twenty years, he has provided market entry and commercialization services to Russian and US technology companies. In this capacity, he has traveled extensively throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has also written and spoken on topics related to business, innovation, and technology. Selected publications include Industrial Giants, Entrepreneurs and Regional Government – The Changing Business Environment in the Yaroslavl’ Oblast 1991–98; he is coauthor of a New York Academy of Sciences study of worldwide innovation best practices and their application to Russia, Yaroslavl Roadmap 10–15-20, and editor of Buyer’s Guide to the Russian IT Outsourcing Industry. He served as President of the Board of the US–Russia Chamber of Commerce of New England for more than fifteen years, and is an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He holds a Master of Law and Diplomacy degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, a JD from Northeastern University Law School, and a BA from James Madison College of Michigan State University.