G-Lab Faculty

Simon Johnson
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship
SIMON JOHNSON is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. At MIT, he is also co-director of the Shaping the Future of Work…
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Michellana Jester
Senior Lecturer, Global Economics and Management
Michellana is a Senior Lecturer in the Global Economics and Management Group and has more than two decades of management consulting, organizational, and leadership development experience, and more than a dozen years at MIT working with graduate…
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Luis Spencer Barros
Lecturer, Global Economics and Management (GEM)
Luis Barros is a Lecturer in the Global Economics Management Group at MIT Sloan. He is a managing partner of Leading Business Ventures (LBV), an investment entity and advisory firm, and director & audit committee member of the ECOWAS Investment and…
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David Birnbach
Lecturer, Global Economics and Management
David Birnbach is a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where his focus is in the domains of action learning, technology innovation, and entrepreneurship. He is also an affiliate with MIT’s World Education Lab (J-WEL) where he works with…
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Sharmila C. Chatterjee
Senior Lecturer, Marketing
Sharmila C. Chatterjee is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and is the Academic Head for the MBA Track in Enterprise Management (EM) launched at MIT Sloan in Fall 2012. Chatterjee teaches the graduate course in B2B Marketing and is deeply engaged in…
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Jim Dougherty
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Jim Dougherty is a Senior Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Dougherty has extensive experience working directly with investors to execute highly successful…
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