Congratulations to Evan Apfelbaum, Patricia Cortes, Andrei Hagiu, Petro Lisowsky on Their Promotions to Full Professors!

Andrei Hagiu

Andrei is an expert on businesses based on network effects (e.g., Airbnb, Amazon, Meta, Uber) and data feedback loops (e.g., Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Tesla). Prior to Questrom, he taught platform strategy courses at Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He uses insights from his research to advise and angel invest in startups attempting to build marketplaces or data-enabled products, and to consult with companies seeking to turn their products into platforms.

Petro (Pete) Lisowsky

Patricia Cortes

Patricia Cortes is an Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Boston University Questrom School of Business and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center of Boston University. She is an empirical labor economist working on international migration and gender. Her work has been published in leading economic journals, such as the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources and Journal of Health Economics. Cortes obtained her PhD in Economics from MIT and a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from La Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.

Evan Apfelbaum

Evan Apfelbaum is an Associate Professor and Research Director of the HR Policy Institute at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. Evan’s research has been featured in leading academic journals including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Management Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been recognized by the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize and is the recipient of the James H. Ferry Jr. Grant for Innovation in Research, an Early Researcher Award from the American Psychological Association, among other research and teaching awards. He was named one of the Top 40 Business Professors Under 40 by Poets & Quants.