Dr Solomon Russom Habtay
Faculty: School of Business
Position: Lecturer
Contact: shabtay@mit.edu.au
Campus: Melbourne
Bio
Dr. Solomon is a lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy at the School of Business, Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT), Australia. Solomon joins MIT in July 2025 bringing to MIT extensive academic and industry experience. He served at different universities including Melbourne University, University of Tasmania, Federation University, Chalmers University, Sweden and Wits University, South Africa. His industry experience comprised a principal consultant at Deloitte and ten years as Operations and Finance Manager at the Fred Hollows Foundation.
Solomon has an emerging research reputation on business model innovation and disruption. He is interested to explore how AI, deep learning and robotics driven disruptive business model innovations revolutionize industries, and their immediate and long-term competitive and disruptive impacts on traditional industries, organisations and markets.