Rajshree Agarwal is a professor of economics, the Rudolph Lamone Chair of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, and the Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the
University of Maryland. She "studies the evolution of industries, firms and individual careers, as fostered by the twin engines of innovation and enterprise."
Education
Agarwal received her Masters of Arts in economics from the
University of Mumbai in 1988 and her PhD in economics from
SUNY Buffalo
The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...
in 1994.
Career
From 2001 to 2010, Agarwal was a Professor of Strategic Management at the
University of Illinois College of Business. She has also taught at the
University of Florida.
Influence and awards
Agarwal is the author or co-author of more than 150 articles in consumer-facing publications such as ''
Forbes'' and ''
Wired'', and in academic journals such as ''The
Journal of Law and Economics'' and the ''
Academy of Management Journal
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''. She is also the author of more than 60 studies which, cumulatively, have been cited more than 10,000 times.
Agarwal was awarded the University Scholar Award at the University of Illinois and the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award at the University of Maryland.
References
External links
Dr. Agarwal’s personal websiteSocial Science Research Network author page*
21st-century Indian economists
Indian women economists
Economics writers
University of Illinois faculty
University of Florida faculty
University of Mumbai alumni
University at Buffalo alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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