About Author
I was born in India but spent my adolescent years growing up in Tanzania and Zambia and speaking Swahili, along with multiple other Indian languages. I am an avid high altitude mountaineer, and have climbed several big mountains in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. We live in New York city (near Madison Square park). We love to travel around the globe. While we enjoy city life, we also love the outdoors and nature, and have completed several scenic hikes and treks around the world. My Twitter handle is @aghose. A more professional bio follows below. ----------------- Anindya Ghose is the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is the author of TAP: Unlocking The Mobile Economy which is a double winner in the 2018 Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into five languages (Korean, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Japanese and Taiwanese). He is the Director of the Masters of Business Analytics Program at NYU Stern. He is a Leonard Stern Faculty Scholar with an MBA scholarship (the Ghose Scholarship) named after him. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Wharton School of Business. In 2014, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the "Top 40 Professors Under 40 Worldwide". He is the youngest recipient of the prestigious INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow Award, given to recognize individuals whose intellectual contributions have made a significant impact on theory, research, and practice. In 2017 he was recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the Top 30 Management Thinkers globally most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led in the next generation. He has consulted in various capacities for Apple, Berkeley Corporation, CBS, Dataxu, DFS Group, Facebook, HR Ratings Mexico, Marico, NBC Universal, OneVest, Samsung, Showtime, Snapchat, 1-800-Contacts, and 3TI World, and collaborated with Adobe, Alibaba, China Mobile, Google, IBM, Indiegogo, Microsoft, Recobell, Telefonica, Travelocity, Via, and many other leading firms on realizing business value from IT investments, internet marketing, business analytics, mobile marketing, digital analytics, social media, and other areas. He also serves as the Scientific Advisor to many start-ups in the US, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and China including Lucidity, Adrealm, Leverage Edu, Co-FoundersLab, Ibus Networks, ZeroWeb, and EywaMedia amongst others. He occasionally serves as an expert witness for information technology and consumer-related litigation and has provided expert testimony in multiple trials and depositions. He has experience in securities, intellectual property, antitrust and competition, copyright infringement, and merger appraisal cases that have required industry domain knowledge, marketing, machine learning, and statistical issues. He has provided expert testimony in several high profile matters, including the Facebook IPO matter, the Verizon-AOL merger appraisal, the Federal Trade Commission's case against 1-800-Contacts, the Snapchat case against Vaporstream and the interactive music streaming royalty rate case between Apple, Amazon, Google, Spotify, and the Copyright Royalty Board. He serves as a Scientific Expert with Cornerstone Research and The Analysis Group. He has published more than 100 papers in premier scientific journals and peer reviewed conferences, and has given more than 250 talks internationally. He is a frequent keynote speaker in executive gatherings and thought leading events globally. His research has received 15 best paper awards and nominations. He is a winner of the NSF CAREER award and has been awarded 14 grants from Google, Microsoft, Adobe and several other corporations. His research analyzes the economic consequences of the Internet on industries and markets transformed by its shared technology infrastructure. His opinions and research have been profiled numerous times in the BBC, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, China Daily, The Economist, Financial Times, Fox News, Forbes, Knowledge@Wharton, Korean Broadcasting News Company, Los Angeles Times, Marketplace Radio, MarketWatch, MSNBC, National Public Radio, NBC, Newsweek, New York Times, New York Daily, NHK Japan Broadcasting, Reuters, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Xinhua, and elsewhere. He teaches courses on social media, digital marketing, business analytics and IT strategy at the undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, MSBA, and Executive Education level in various parts of the world including the US, India, China, and South Korea.
