Eric Mankin, Visiting Scholar
Eric Mankin, MBA, PhD is a Visiting Scholar at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and a Vice President at the strategic innovation consultancy Product Genesis. Eric's work has enabled companies and entrepreneurs to turn their innovations into successful business results.
From 2005 to 2007, Eric was the founding Executive Director of Babson’s Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship Research Center. There, he led research on mechanisms by which companies could improve their entrepreneurial ability and innovation performance. He organized and led a number of conferences related to these areas in addition to working with Babson students on their business plans. Previously, Eric served as the Vice President of Research at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation. He also served as a consultant at Bain & Company and Integral, Inc. Eric’s current projects continue his work in the area of entrepreneurial new business development. Eric is trained as an economist, with an undergraduate degree (summa cum laude) from Yale, a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University and an MBA (with high distinction) from Harvard Business School.
Jesse Moore, Visiting Scholar
Jesse Moore, MBA is a Visiting Scholar at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and a London-based specialist in mobile communications and market-based international development.
Jesse currently works with the GSM Association, the global trade organization which represents over 700 mobile network operators in 200+ countries. Jesse works specifically with the Development Fund, which accelerates mobile services in base of the pyramid markets. Previously, Jesse worked with Vodafone on M-PESA, a mobile payment service targeting Kenya’s unbanked population. He founded and directed CARE Enterprise Partners, the division of CARE International that provides venture capital to businesses in the developing world. During this period, Jesse helped start base of the pyramid businesses in Bangladesh, Peru and Kenya, and spoke about social investment at dozens of international conferences and business schools. He has also worked as a management consultant at Monitor. Jesse holds a BA with distinction from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Morehead Scholar) and earned an MBA with distinction at Oxford University’s Said Business School, where he was a Skoll Scholar for Social Enterprise.