Jan C. Fransoo is a Professor of Operations and Logistics Management at the School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University in Tilburg, the Netherlands. He has conducted research across a wide variety of domains and methodologies, all related to supply chain and operations management, and published extensively in many journals in operations management, operations research, industrial engineering, and transportation. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management. In recent years, his research has mainly focused on retail operations in developing countries and other emerging markets. Much of this research is conducted in collaboration with Consumer-Packaged Goods companies, technology startups, and intergovernmental agencies such as the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank. Apart from this line of research, he also has active research lines on omnichannel retail, intermodal transportation, and urban logistics.

Bin Guo is Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the School of Management, Zhejiang University. He is also a vice-chairman of the Professor Committee at School of Management, and the deputy director of Joint Research Center for Global Manufacturing and Innovation Management by Cambridge University and Zhejiang University.  He received his Ph.D. in Management from Zhejiang University (1998), China. Prof. Guo’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of innovation management and innovation strategy. He has published articles in refereed international journals including the Research Policy, Technovation, European Management Journal, International Business Review, Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Information Science and other academic journals.

Bruce McKern is an educator, corporate advisor and speaker on corporate
innovation & strategy. Bruce worked in industry in Canada and Australia. He later earned a Doctorate in International Business at Harvard and has been in academic work for most of his career. His research is in the fields of innovation, strategy and international business; national innovation & technology policy, emerging multinationals; and innovation in China. Bruce has been dean of two Australian business schools and Director of the Stanford Sloan Masters Program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business; President and Professor of International Business at the Carnegie Bosch Institute of Carnegie Mellon University; and a Visiting Fellow in the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is currently Adjunct Professor of International Business at the University of Technology Sydney, and was from 2011 to 2014 Professor and Co-Director of the CEIBS Centre on China Innovation, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai. He furthered this work as a Visiting Research Fellow at INSEAD (2015); the Technology & Management Centre for Development, University of Oxford (2015); and The Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (2016).