Prof. (Dr.) Allan Afuah received his PhD from MIT. His research focuses on scientific problem solving and is rooted in the strategies and processes for generating and transforming scientific knowledge into products and services to benefit humanity. Professor Afuah is the author of nine books. His latest book, Forgotten Scientific Miracles, explores why the US spends more on healthcare than anyone else only to get sicker, fatter and more susceptible to healthcare shocks such as the covid-19 pandemic. One of the findings of the book is that the covid-19 problem is actually a Vitamin D deficiency problem that can be solved very easily. Professor Afuah was the winner of the 2012 Academy of Management Review (AMR) Best Paper Award when the journal was the world’s #1 business and #1 management journal. He was also the winner of 2019 AMR Practice Implications Award. More recently, Professor Afuah’s research has focused on problem solving, crowdsourcing, multisided platforms, business models, and crowdsruption. Professor Afuah’s teaching takes the point of view of a manager with overarching responsibility for the performance of his or her organization. His courses focus on how technological innovation concepts and phenomena can be used to explain and make predictions about how the world’s most valuable firms (e.g., Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook, Google, etc.) and unicorns (e.g., Uber, Airbnb, etc.) create and capture value in an increasingly digital and uncertain world.