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The global business environment is experiencing turbulence that is unprecedented in its concurrent breadth. Firms face global pressures from geopolitical fragmentation, rising nationalism, accelerated technological change including AI, and climate change, among others. These forces are materially shifting the conditions under which value is created and appropriated in ways that the established strategic management theories only partially capture. This panel convenes scholars and practitioners with diverse expertise to set an agenda for a sustained scholarly conversation on value creation and value appropriation under contemporary global turbulence.
Panelists
- Srividya Jandhyala, ESSEC
- Minyoung Kim, The Ohio State University
- Allen Webb, PwC
- Lori Yue, Columbia University
- Minyuan Zhao, WashU
Srividya Jandhyala is an Associate Professor at ESSEC Business School. Her research focuses on global strategy, geopolitics, international business, and non-market strategy in the international context. It has been published in a wide range of journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Development, and Strategy Science.
Minyoung Kim is the Fisher College of Business Distinguished Professor and Professor of Management in the Max M. Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. He investigates the intertwined nature of value creation and value appropriation along the three dimensions of the scope of the firm: geographic, product, and vertical integration. His current research explores barriers to imitation, innovation strategies, political strategies, startup growth, the theory of the firm, and social network analysis. He has published articles in leading scholarly journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal.
Allen Webb is PwC’s Managing Director for Global Thought Leadership. He recently led the firm’s “Value in Motion” initiative, examining scenarios for growth as AI, climate change, and fragmenting geopolitics reconfigure global industries. While at PwC he has led a reimagination of PwC’s Global CEO Survey, and of PwC’s overall approach to thought leadership through the integration of previously siloed research and publishing organizations. Before PwC, Allen was at McKinsey for 23 years, serving as Editor-In Chief of McKinsey Quarterly for more than a decade and as lead project manager for the landmark study of IT and productivity growth in the 1990s. Allen is a graduate of Harvard College (BA in history) and the University of Chicago (JD and MBA in finance and economics); has worked as a Harvard Business School case writer; and has taught MBA courses in business history and global strategy at the University of Washington Foster School of Business.
Lori Qingyuan Yue is the Charles E. Exley Professor of Management at Columbia Business School. Her research examines the interplay among business, society, and government. Her recent research investigates how firms navigate the challenges of deglobalization and the resurgence of nationalism. She has developed a theory of organizational nationalism and used AI and Large Language Models to construct computational measures of nationalism at the firm level. She also co-founded the Nation and Nationalism Research Network, a community of interdisciplinary scholars examining the evolving role of nation and nationalism in business, society, and geopolitics.
Minyuan Zhao is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Minyuan’s research examines the interactions between firm strategy and external environment in a global context. Her work on multinational innovation and intellectual property (IP) strategies has been published in top journals such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies. She currently serves as Associate Editor of SMJ, Senior Editor of MOR, and on the editorial review boards of other top strategy journals. Prior to joining Olin, Minyuan was on the faculty of Carlson School of Management (Minnesota), Ross School of Business (Michigan), and the Wharton School (UPenn). She was the recipient of multiple teaching awards from the Michigan EMBA program, the NUS-UCLA EMBA program, the Wharton School FT MBA program, and WashU’s EMBA programs in both St. Louis and Shanghai. Her pre-academia life includes work experiences in entrepreneurship, think tank, and the automotive industry.