Professor Anindya Ghose from New York University’s Leonard N.Stern School of Business was invited by the 2016 HIT International Summer School to give lectures. During his visiting period, Professor Anindya Ghose visited the HIT eHealth Research Institute. He discussed with members of the eHealth Research Institute on three main perspectives: (1) the welfare impact of the Internet on industries and markets transformed by its shared technology infrastructure, (2) the economic impact of crowdfunding and open innovation, and (3) the business impact of digital marketing. He also listened to several Ph.D. students’ academic reports and gave some advice on their future research.

Anindya Ghose is a Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences and a Professor of Marketing at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is the Director of the Center for Business Analytics at NYU Stern. He is also the NEC Faculty Fellow at NYU Stern. In 2014, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the Top 40 Professors Under 40 Worldwide and by Analytics Week as one the Top 200 Thought Leaders in Big Data and Business Analytics. He is the youngest recipient of the prestigious INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow Award.