Frank T Rothaermel
Regents’ Professor
Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Frank T Rothaermel is Regents' Professor, holds the Russell and Nancy McDonough Chair in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), and is an Alfred P Sloan Industry Studies Fellow.
He received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, “the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education" (NSF CAREER Award description). Bloomberg Businessweek named Frank one of Georgia Tech’s Prominent Faculty, while Poets & Quants selected Frank (multiple times) as one of the “Favourite Business School Professors Teaching MBAs.” He received the Theory-to-Practice Award from the Vienna Strategy Forum at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The Kauffman Foundation views Frank as one of the world’s 75 thought leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Frank’s research interests lie in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship; he has published some 40 articles in leading academic journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and elsewhere.
Frank's top bestselling cases
Browse Frank's top three bestselling cases during the last year.The case is set in January 2020 and the case protagonist is Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, Inc, a fully integrated sustainable energy and transportation company. The case sets up real-world, factual problems that Elon Musk and Tesla face, including how to scale-up production profitably while launching several new models at the same time.
The case is set in 2023. The protagonists are Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, co-CEOs of Netflix, a subscription streaming service and content production company. In Q4 2022, Netflix gained 7.7 million new subscribers (223 million worldwide) after losing 1.2 million in the year's first half. The scale of subscriber defection (in Q1 and Q2) across all geographic regions other than Asia concerned investors. By mid-2022, Netflix's share price plummeted by over 72%.
The case is set in 2023. The protagonist is Elon Musk, CEO and Technoking of Tesla, Inc. The vertically-integrated clean technology company designs, develops, manufactures, and sells high-performance fully electric vehicles (EVs) and energy generation and storage systems. Tesla had sales of USD81 billion and generated over USD12 billion in net income in 2022. Tesla's stock market valuation peaked at over USD1.2 trillion in early 2022.