Amy Hillman is the Charles J. Robel Dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She received her PhD from Texas A&M University in Strategic Management and Business and Public Policy in 1996 and was inducted Outstanding Doctoral Alumni from her alma mater in 2008.

Her areas of interest include corporate political strategies, boards of directors, and corporate strategy. Her research includes over 30 peer-reviewed articles published in leading journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Administrative Science Quarterly. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2014 and is a Founding Fellow of the International Corporate Governance Society.

She is former Editor of Academy of Management Review and a former Associate Editor of Academy of Management Journal. She received the Academy of Management’s “Outstanding Educator Award” in 2018 and will serve as Vice-Chair Elect in 2020 and ultimately President of the Academy of Management in 2022.

Amy joined ASU in June, 2001. An award-winning undergraduate, MBA and doctoral teacher, she previously taught at the Ivey Business School at The University of Western Ontario, the Broad Business School at Michigan State University and the Mays College of Business at Texas A&M University. In addition, she has spent several summers as a guest professor at the Institute for International Management at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and taught during her doctoral program at her undergraduate alma mater Trinity University. She has also published seven teaching cases use Management at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and taught during her doctoral program at her undergraduate alma mater Trinity University. She has also published seven teaching cases used in classrooms around the world.

Kenneth L. Shropshire joins Arizona State University having served for more than 30 years as the David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School in the department of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as the director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative and carries the title Wharton Professor Emeritus. 

Professor Shropshire is the first Adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport and the founding CEO of the Global Sport Institute, with additional appointments in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and the African and African American Studies program in the School of Social Transformation.

Professor Shropshire's research centers on a wide range of sports-related issues, including sports business, sports business law, sports and social impact, race and the law, negotiations, franchise relocation, antitrust issues, contracts, negotiation and dispute resolution, and the broader sports industry. His research has been published in a dozen books and law journals, including Stanford Law and Policy Review, American Business Law Journal, Hastings Law Journal, Marquette Sports Law Journal, Seton Hall Journal of Sports Law, Denver University Law Review, and University of Colorado Law Review.

Raghu Santanam joined the W. P. Carey School of Business as an assistant professor of information systems in 1998. He was named chair of the Department of Information Systems in 2015. 

Professor Santanam’s research has focused on the impacts of technology and technology strategies on businesses, society, and consumers. His research areas of interest include, health information technology, digital platforms and markets, services and business process design, and information assurance. His research on digital platforms has explored emerging business strategies, consumer preferences, and trends in software markets and platforms. Santanam is an active researcher in the health information technology area and has published scholarly articles on electronic medical records impacts on hospitals, personal health records adoption by consumers, and technology-based decision support for public health. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems.

Before joining W. P. Carey, Professor Santanam was an instructor of management at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications from the National Institute of Engineering, his master’s degree in industrial management from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a second master’s degree and PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

He currently serves on the editorial boards of premier journals and has served as an advisory editor of the Elsevier series on "Handbooks in Information Systems." He has been commended for his contributions to academia, most recently winning the 2012 Outstanding Teaching Award – MBA and Graduate Business.