Sharon M. Oster,
Co-Director, is the Frederic D. Wolfe Professor
of Management and Entrepreneurship & Faculty Director of the
Program on Social Enterprise
at the Yale School
of Management. She is a specialist in competitive strategy,
microeconomic theory, industrial organization, the economics
of regulation and antitrust, and nonprofit strategy. She has
written extensively on the regulation of business and competitive
strategy. Professor Oster's book, Modern Competitive Analysis,
used widely at management schools, integrates a broad range
of views in its analysis of management strategy and emphasizes
an economic approach to strategic planning. Her second book,
Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations, takes the
same economic approach to managing nonprofit organizations.
Professor Oster has consulted widely to private, public, and
nonprofit organizations. She currently advises Microsoft, Boston
Scientific, and MP3.com and sits on the board of directors of
Health Care REIT, Transpro, and Aristotle Corporations, and
the not-for-profit educational institution Choate Rosemary Hall.
Gus Ranis,
Co-Director, is the Frank Altschul Professor
Emeritus of International Economics at Yale University and
represents the Whitney
and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
at Yale. He was Director of the Pakistan Institute of
Development Economics (1959-61) and Director of the Economic
Growth Center at Yale (1967-75). Between 1965 and 1967 he
served as Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy in
the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has been
a consultant to The World Bank, ADB, AID, OECD, UNIDO, FAO,
UNDP, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, among others,
and currently serves as a member of the advisory board of
a number of developing countries' research institutions. He
was Chief of the ILO Comprehensive Employment Strategy Mission
to the Philippines in 1973 and Chief of the World Bank/Caricom
Mission on Production and Investment Incentives in the Caribbean
in 1981. In 1976 he organized the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences' Bicentennial Symposium on the Role of Science and
Technology in Economic Development. He was Ford Foundation
Visiting Professor in Mexico (1971-72) and in Colombia (1976-77)
and has worked extensively in and on Korea, Taiwan, and Japan
as well as on Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ghana. He has
been a Distinguished Visitor to China under the Advisory Panel
on Chinese Economics Education. In 1982 he was awarded an
Honorary Degree by Brandies University. During 1993-1994 he
was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.
Professor Ranis has written extensively on theoretical and
policy-related issues of development. His major book-length
publications include The Political Economy of Development
Policy Change, 1992 (with Syed Akhtar Mahmood); En Route to
Modern Economic Growth: Latin America in the 1990s,1994 (editor);
Growth and Development from an Evolutionary Perspective, 1997
(with John Fei); and Japan and the U.S. in the Developing
World, 1997 (editor).
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