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Harbir Singh is the Mack Professor of Management, the Co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation, and the Vice Dean of Global Initiatives at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His work focuses on strategic alliances, corporate acquisitions, and corporate restructuring. He has won numerous awards for his scholarship including the Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award, the Graduate Division's Miller-Sherrerd Core Teaching Award, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Michigan, where he received his PhD. He is on the Academic Advisory Board of the Indian School of Business and has been a visiting professor at the London Business School and Bocconi University, Italy. Ananth Padmanabhan is a fellow at Carnegie India, New Delhi. His primary research focus is technology, regulation, and public policy, and the intersection of these three fields within the Indian context. He has authored India's leading treatise on intellectual property rights, Intellectual Property Rights: Infringement and Remedies (LexisNexis, 2012). He is a regular contributor to leading Indian newspapers including the Indian Express and Business Line. Previously, Padmanabhan practiced law in the Madras High Court, and taught at various institutions including the National Law University, Jodhpur, and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He holds a master's degree in law from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and is currently enrolled in their doctoral program on a non-resident basis. Ezekiel Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his contributions to The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, edited by Dr Emanuel and members of the NIH Department of Bioethics. He is also an Op-Ed contributor to the New York Times and a contributor to MSNBC. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the chair of the meta-council on the Future of Health Care Committee for the World Economic Forum. He has received numerous awards including election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science, the Association of American Physicians, and the Royal College of Medicine (UK).