Research
Innovation | Strategy | Commercial Space Industry
Journal articles
Jingning Ao, Jesse-Burton Nicholson, Gal Blatman, Ravi Madhavan, and John E. Prescott
Academy of Management Perspectives, 2022
Michelle Zorrilla, Jingning Ao, Lauren Terhorst, Susan K Cohen, Mary Goldberg, and Jonathan Pearlman
Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2022
🚀Space Research🌍
They say to dress for the life you want...
My dream is to visit outer space someday--hopefully through my research on the space industry--and make this dream come true for more people!
Faculty-Led Student Research for NASA
Finalist | NASA MUREP Innovation & Tech Transfer Idea Competition
NASA Johnson Space Center
2024 Houston TX
Advancing the Business of Space: Extracurricular Student Mentorship and Faculty Research
Transform morgan grant award recipient
Morgan State University
2024 Baltimore MD
Panel symposium
Co-organizer
Academy of Management
2024 Chicago IL
Presentations
Discursive strategy in 'Self-celebritizing' entrepreneurial firms: Video-based analysis of SpaceX & Blue Origin
Business of Space Conference | 2025 (scheduled) | University of Alabama in Huntsville
Brunel University | 2024 London | virtual
Academy of Management | 2024 Chicago | OMT Division
Eastern Academy of Management | 2024 Providence | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, & Information Technology Track
Winner, Best Track Paper Award
Academy of Management Journal PDW | 2023 Atlanta
The future is now: A mixed-methods analysis of astronaut experience to explore the motivation for space tourism
Travel & Tourism Research Association International Conference | 2021 | Travel & Tourism Research Association
Runner-up, Best Ideas Fair Paper Award
Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium | 2019 Huntsville
International Space Station R&D Conference | 2019 Atlanta
National Environment & Recreation Research Symposium | 2017 Annapolis
Space as a frontier for cultivating medical breakthrough: A corpus linguistic study
Finalist, Molly K. Macauley Award (Business & Space Policy track) | 2020 | American Astronautical Society
Ph.D. Dissertations
2023 | University of Pittsburgh
2018 | Middle Tennessee State University