Ryan Schill

Faculty Member

Dr. Ryan Schill

Biography

Decision case author who previously taught MBAs at Harvard Business School, INCAE, Middlebury, and undergraduate economics at Cambridge University.

Schill founded a company that exited to NASDAQ-listed PRTS and owned a construction firm specializing in mixed-use projects across the Western U.S. In Latin America, he was a foreign government-contracted professor teaching innovation economics to ministers and Heads of State. A McKinsey-contracted consultant, Ryan, also managed marketing in Latin America for a presidential campaign.

Ryan attended Harvard's GSE to serve as a university president in Latin America. He has held roles including Assistant Rector, Senior Creative Director, Department Chair, Entrepreneur Center Director, and René Morales Carazo Endowed Professor in Costa Rica. Schill established entrepreneurship centers, led global executive education programs, and launched the most extensive MBA scholarship for Latin American innovators. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology Education.

Schill has held fellowships at Babson College, the Max Planck Gesellschaft, and The Technion and was a doctoral researcher at the House of Lords and the Bank of England. He is a former director at the Cambridge-MIT Exchange and a member of the Global Network for Advanced Management initiated by Yale SOM.

Ryan has been a board member of many outdoor equipment companies in the whitewater, skiing, and climbing space. Schill currently advises Grivel.

Education

PhD, University of Cambridge , 2015

Major: Economics

MPhil. , University of Cambridge , 2010

Major: Innovation, Strategy and Organization

MBA, George Washington University , 2007

Major: Marketing

Teaching

MKTG 3600

Principles of Marketing, Spring 2025

MKTG 3600

Principles of Marketing, Spring 2025

MKTG 3600

Principles of Marketing, Spring 2025

Presentations

Schill, Ryan , Jorgensen , David , Fabian, Frances , Strategic Management Society , "AI the Ally ", Strategic Management Society , Istanbul . (November, 2024)
Schill, Ryan , Personal Branding Seminar, "Personal Branding Seminar", UVU MBA, KB454. (November 16, 2023)
Schill, Ryan , Strategic Management Society, "Navigating a Gold Rush_ Emergent Strategy Threats to Identify and Legitimacy", Strategic Management Society. (September, 2023)
Schill, Ryan , Eastern Academy of Management, "Tutorez, Crossing the Valley of Death ", Eastern Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA. (May, 2023)
Tolk, Jeffrey (Co-Presenter), Schill, Ryan , PACE Professional Development Forum, "Out of your comfort sone on the highest volcano in the world ", Utah Valley University. (April 6, 2023)
Schill, Ryan , Jorgensen, David , Leonel, Ronei , Innis, Benjamin , Strategic Management Society, Toronto, Canada. , "The Effects of TMT Portraits on Retail Investor Sentiment", Strategic Management Society, Toronto, Canada. . (February, 2023)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Hall, Kate , Schill, Ryan , Nixon, Marina , Jorgensen, David , (2024) "Charlotte Valeur's Autism Diagnosis_ Claiming a Neurodiverse identity in a Neurotypical World " . Business Case Journal .
Schill, Ryan , Jorgensen, David , Nixon, Marina , "Mumbai Express_ The Taste of Dilemma" . The Case Journal Emerald .
Schill, Ryan , "Killing it Softly_ The Influence of Paycheck Protection Program Loans in Introducing the Threat Rigidity Effect Artificially" . International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research.
Schill, Ryan , Nixon, Marina , (2024) "The Seven ‘C’s of Strategic Pricing in International Markets" (Issue: 2, vol. vol. 8). Journal of Cultural Marketing Strategy. https://ideas.repec.org/a/aza/jcms00/y2024v8i2p175-191.html
Andrade, Maureen , Benson, David , Schill, Ryan , Miller, Ronald , Schill, Angela , (2024) "Drivers of Entrepreneurship in Latin America_ Income, Education, and Work Status " . The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies. https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/drivers-of-entrepreneurship-in-latin-america
Schill, Ryan , Leonel, Ronei , Jorgensen, David F, Groves, Joshua , (2023) "Norfana: os desafios à viabilidade de um novo produto " (vol. Vol. 13, No 1_ janeiro-junho 2023). Revista Brasileira de Casos de Ensino em Administração. https://periodicos.fgv.br/gvcasos/article/view/88687

Awards

Most Valuable Professor - MVP Award

UVU Athletics - November 14, 2024

UVU Athletics Award for creating champions in competition and in the classroom.