Joshua Ault is an expert in international strategy, international entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and emerging and developing countries. More specifically, he studies how national differences in state fragility influence managers’ ability to transfer promising business models across the developing world to reach global scale. He also explores specific strategies that managers can adopt to deal with fragile states in order to improve the likelihood of a successful transfer.

Ault is an assistant professor in the Thunderbird School of Global Management and has taught classes in international business, global strategy, social issues in management, and international entrepreneurship