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Abetti, Pier A.
Albright, Bob (Hartford)
Begley, Thomas
Chari, Murali
Chi, Lei
Demertzoglou, Pindaro
Durgee, Jeffrey F.
Francis, Bill B.
Francis, Sonja
Gingerella, Louis (Hartford)
Goldenberg, David H.
Golden, Timothy
Gupta, Aparna
Ha, Chang
Hasan, Iftekhar
Huang, Dongling
Jiao, Yawen
Kelly, Leonard (Hartford)
Kumar, Shyam
Kuruzovich, Jason
Maleyeff, John (Hartford)
Markovitch, Dmitri
McDermott, Christopher M.
McDermott, Margaret (Peggy)
Nam, Seunghan
O'Brien, Jonathan P.
O'Connor, Gina C.
Paulson, Albert S.
Peters, Lael (Hartford)
Peters, Lois S.
Peteros, Randall (Hartford)
Rainey, David (Hartford)
Ravichandran, T. (Ravi)
Sanderson, Susan W.
Stodder, James (Hartford)
Teall, John
Tracy, William
Triscari, Thomas Jr.
Wall, Kevin (Hartford)
Wright, Frank X.
Wu, Qiang
Yayla-Kullu, Hesna Muge
Ye, Pengfei
Zhang, Yinghong
Zhao, Hao

Shyam Kumar

Assistant Professor

kumarm2@rpi.edu
518-276-2961

Areas: Joint Ventures and Alliances, Diversification, Theories of the Firm

Areas of Instruction: Corporate Strategy

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
  • B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Research and Publications

  • Asymmetric Wealth Gains in Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence, Finance Research Letters, 2007
  • The Value from Acquiring and Divesting a Joint Venture: A Real Options Approach, Strategic Management Journal, 2005
  • Knowledge, Absorptive Capacity, and the Theory of the Diversified Firm, Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management, 2001 (with A. Seth)

View Prof. Kumar’s CV

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