Dr. MB Sarkar is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Management department, College of Business, University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1999, and is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi. MB's research and teaching interests lie primarily in the area of technology strategy & innovation management.

MB has published in journals such as The Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies and The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science among others. MB's co-authored paper on spin-outs, or entrepreneurial ventures formed by ex-employees of incumbent organizations, won the 2005 AMJ Best Paper Award (click here for a presentation on the research journey related to this paper). MB is a recipient of the Alliance Edge Research Fellowship (2003), and is a collaborator on a SSHRC grant of $75,000 over 3 years to study innovation and entrepreneurship in the context of Indian firms. Currently, with collaborators from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, MB is studying the Indian growth story. His paper on the transformation of Indian pharmaceutical firms from 'Third World copycats' to 'Emerging Multinationals' is forthcoming in Organization Science. For his doctoral dissertation on firm's partnering capabilities, he has won several awards: the Institute for the Study of Business Markets Doctoral Support Award (1998), the George Day Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal (1998), the Mary Kay Award for the best Marketing dissertation awarded by The Academy of Marketing Science (1999), and runner-up in the John A. Howard-AMA Doctoral Dissertation Award offered by the American Marketing Association (2000). MB and his co-authors are credited with contributing the term 'cybermediaries' to the business lexicon through their work on mediation in electronic markets. His industry experience includes product management in a consumer products company (United Breweries - an Indian conglomerate), account planning in advertising (Pangulf Publicity - now a Bates affiliate in Dubai, UAE), and founding a media production company which he ran for several years prior to his calling to academia. 

MB teaches courses on Technology & Innovation Strategy. In 2004, he taught a doctoral seminar at IIM Calcutta. An affiliate faculty of Grenoble ecole de Management (France), MB has taught in the MBA (Science and Technology) program at Queen’s University, Canada (ranked # 1 non-US MBA program by BusinessWeek). In March 2006, MB conducted a successful workshop on Innovation & Creativity for EDHEC-THESEUS MBA students in Nice, France. During 2007 summer, MB conducted Innovation workshops at IIMC's Business Leadership Program and taught a course on Strategic Innovation in their executive MBA program. During his sabbatical in Spring 2008, MB plans on spending time at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), Bocconi University (Milan), Grenoble ecole de Management (Grenoble) and Euromed ecole de Management (Marseille).