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SMS Fellows

Rajshree Agarwal

... is a Chaired Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Her research interests focus on the implications of entrepreneurship and innovation for industry and firm evolution ...

Ruth Aguilera

...is a Distinguished Professor in International Business and Strategy at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and recently elected SMS Fellow. She spent the 2014-2015 academic year as a Visiting Full Professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy, at the...

Raffi Amit

... is the Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management at the Wharton School. He founded and leads the Wharton Global Family Alliance (WGFA), a unique academic-family business partnership. He has served as the Academic Director...

Africa Ariño

...is Professor of Strategic Management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra (Spain), where she holds the Joaquim Molins Figueras Chair of Strategic Alliances. She received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At IESE...

Charles Baden-Fuller

... is the Centenary Professor of Strategy and leader of the Strategy Group at Cass Business School, City, University of London. The research group at Cass is one of the strongest research groups in strategy in Europe and ...

Jay Barney

...is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah. He previously served as the Professor of Management and held the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy...

Christopher Bartlett

... received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia ...

Richard Bettis

... is the Ellison Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business of the University of North Carolina. He has won the SMJ Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper prize and been elected to the Fellows of SMS...

Joseph Bower

... is the Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the faculty chair of both The Corporate Leader Program and The General Management Program at Harvard ...

Philip Bromiley

... is a Dean’s Professor in Strategic Management and a University of California Distinguished Professor at the Merage School of University of California, Irvine. Previously...

Robert Burgelman

... is the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management and the Executive Director of the Stanford Executive Program (SEP) of ...

Laurence Capron

...is the Paul Desmarais Chaired Professor of Partnership and Active Ownership at INSEAD and Director of INSEAD Executive Education Program on “M&As and Corporate Strategy”. She is Visiting Professor of Strategy at MIT Sloan School of...

Carlos Cavalle

...is Dean Emeritus of IESE Business School and Professor in the Department of General Management. His areas of specialization include executive education strategic management and leadership...

Bala Chakravarthy

...is Professor Emeritus of Strategy and Leadership at IMD, Switzerland. He held the Royal Dutch Shell Chair in Sustainable Business Growth at IMD from 2003-12. Prior to joining...

Ming-Jer Chen

... is the Leslie Grayson Professor at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. A pioneer in competitive dynamics and ambicultural management, he has written two books and published in Academy of Management Review (AMR) and ...

Russell Coff

...is the Thomas J. Falk Distinguished Chair in Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the role of knowledge-based assets in creating and sustaining competitive advantage. Thus, he studies dilemmas associated with human capital such as mobility, retention in M&A, rent appropriation, and organizational design under uncertainty...

Karel Cool

... is a Professor of Strategic Management and the BP Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness at INSEAD. His research, teaching, and consulting focus on problems of industry dynamics and competitive strategy (e.g., competitive positioning; assessment of profit opportunities in markets; strategic ...

Jose de la Torre

... is Professor Emertitus at Florida International University where he held the J.K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in Strategy and was the Founding Dean of the Alvah H. Chapman Graduate School of Business ...

Yves Doz

...has helped executives and their companies develop and implement effective strategies that transcend inherent tensions and contradictions: Global vs. local in multinational innovations, value capture vs. value creation in alliances...

Irene Duhaime

...is the Robinson Distinguished Leadership Professor in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Her research interests focus on corporate strategy and include diversification decision-making...

Rodolphe Durand

... is the HEC Foundation Chaired Professor of Strategy at HEC-Paris and the academic director of the Society and Organizations Center which he launched in 2009. Rodolphe’s primary research interests concern ...

Kathleen Eisenhardt

...is the S. W. Ascherman M.D. Professor and Co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University. She is the coauthor of "Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World" and "Competing on the Edge: Strategy...

Nicolai Foss

... is the Rodolfo Debenedetti Chaired Professor (“Ordinario”) of Entrepreneurship at the Bocconi University, Milano. He was a professor at the Copenhagen Business School until 2016...

Alfonso Gambardella

... is Professor of Corporate Management at Bocconi University. His research focuses on technology strategy ...

Pankaj Ghemawat

...is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School and Global Professor of Management and Strategy at NYU Stern Business School where he leads the Center for the Globalization of Education ...

Vijay Govindarajan

... is widely regarded as one of the world¹s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was the first Professor in Residence...

Robert Grant

...is professor of strategic management at Bocconi University, Milan. He was born in Bristol, England, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics and City University. He has held faculty positions at Georgetown University, City University...

Ranjay Gulati

Anil Gupta

... is the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Strategy and is based at the Institute’s campus in Singapore. He is also the Michael Dingman Chair in Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship ...

Donald Hambrick

... is Evan Pugh University Professor and Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, Smeal College of Business Administration at The Pennsylvania State University. He holds degrees from the University of Colorado (B.S.), Harvard University (M.B.A.)...

Gary Hamel

...has been on the faculty of the London Business School where he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management...

Constance Helfat

... is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy and Senior Associate Dean for Research Innovation at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Professor Helfat’s research focuses on strategic change, with an emphasis on firm capabilities, technological innovation, and ...

Amy Hillman

...s dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business, is a world-renowned management expert, a popular teacher and a noted researcher. She heads up one of the largest and highest-ranked business schools in the nation. The W. P. Carey School has more than 16,000 students...

Michael A. Hitt

...is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He has authored or co-authored many journal articles published in leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal...

Robert Hoskisson

...is the George R. Brown Chair of Strategic Management at the Jones School of Business at Rice University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California–Irvine. His research topics focus on corporate strategy and governance and he teaches courses in corporate and international strategic management, among others...

Anne Huff

... is Professor of Strategic Innovation and Research Development at Maynooth University, School of Business. She teaches strategic management and works with faculty and students to help develop their research capabilities ...

Duane Ireland

...is a Distinguished Professor of Management and holds the Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership at Texas A & M University. Previously an associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal...

Bruce Kogut

... is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University and previously held chairs at the Wharton School and INSEAD. Bruce Kogut has degrees from the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University...

Daniel Levinthal

...is the Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dan Levinthal has published extensively on questions of organizational adaptation and industry evolution, particularly in the context of technological change with...

Marvin Lieberman

... holds the Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he heads the Strategy Area and serves as Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Doctoral Program. Prior to arriving at UCLA in 1990, he was on the faculty of ...

Peter Lorange

... is the owner and the president of the Lorange Institute of Business and one of the world’s foremost business school academics ...

Marjorie Lyles

... is OneAmerica Chair in Business Administration and Professor of International Strategic Management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Marjorie Lyles’ research addresses ...

Ian MacMillan

Joseph Mahoney

...earned his doctorate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Gies College of Business of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988, and is the Caterpillar Chair of Business. His research interest is organizational economics...

Anita McGahan

... is University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society at the University of Toronto. Her primary appointments are at the Rotman School of Management and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. McGahan’s credits include four books and over 150 articles, case studies, notes and ...

John McGee

Rita Gunther McGrath

... is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation with particular emphasis on developing sound strategy in uncertain and volatile environments ...

Danny Miller

...received his Ph.D. from McGill University. He has held professorships at McGill University, HEC Montreal, Columbia University and the University of Alberta. He is currently Research Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Montreal...

Henry Mintzberg

Will Mitchell

...is Professor of Strategic Management in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization. Will is a senior fellow at Rotman’s Center for...

Jackson Nickerson

...is a Professor Emeritus of Organization and Strategy at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Jackson was the Associate Dean and Director of Brookings Executive Education from...

David Norburn

Torben Pedersen

...is Professor of International Business at the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. His research interests are in the interface between strategy and international management and he has published over 100 articles and books concerning the managerial and strategic aspects of globalization...

Margaret Peteraf

...is the Leon E. Williams Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She received a Ph.D. in industrial organization economics from Yale University and has served on the faculties of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern as well as the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota...

Andrew Pettigrew

... is Professor of Strategy and Organization at Saïd Business School and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College ...

Michael Porter

... is a leading authority on competitive strategy; the competitiveness and economic development of nations, states, and regions ...

Nandini Rajagopalan

...is the Joseph A. DeBell Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organization in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Her research examines platform-based markets, acquisitions and...

Jeffrey Reuer

... is the Guggenheim Endowed Chair and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. He is a Fellow of the SMS and the first recipient of the SMS Emerging Scholar Award ...

Joan E Ricart

...is the Carl Schrøder Professor of Strategic Management and Chairman of the Strategic Management Department at the IESE Business School, University of Navarra. He is the Associate Director for Faculty and Research, and has been the...

Peter Ring

... has been a member of the Society 20 years. He has held a number of leadership positions including: Program Chair of the 27th Annual Conference7; Associate Program Chair for the 26th Annual...

Richard Rumelt

Dan Schendel

...is the Blake Family Endowed Chair Emeritus in Strategic Management at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University....

J Myles Shaver

...is Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota where he holds the Pond Family Chair in the Teaching and Advancement of Free Enterprise Principles. Myles’ research interests revolve around...

Nicolaj Siggelkow

...is the David M Knott Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. He is a fellow of the Strategic Management Society and a former or current editorial board member of Administrative Science Quarterly...

Harbir Singh

... is the William and Phyllis Mack Professor of Management, and Co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His main areas of research...

Ken G Smith

George Stalk Jr

...is a Senior Advisor for The Boston Consulting Group, Senior Partner Emeritus for Banyan family business advisors as well as an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management for the...

Stephen Tallman

...is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Richmond. He graduated from the US Military Academy and holds a PhD in international business and strategic management from UCLA. He has been on the faculty of the University of Hawaii, the University of Utah, and the Cranfield School of Management, and has visited at...

David Teece

... is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital, University of California, Berkeley. He is also chairman and cofounder of Berkeley Research Group ...

Howard Thomas

...was appointed Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business in January of 2010. Prior to this appointment, he was the Dean of the Warwick Business School...

James Westphal

...is the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Jim conducts research on the sociology and social psychology of corporate governance and...

Margarethe Wiersema

...holds the Dean’s Professorship in Strategic Management at the University of California, Irvine. She has an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Copenhagen Business School in...

Sidney Winter

...is the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, Emeritus, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During his career he has held regular or visiting appointments at seven universities, served on the staffs of the U.S. General Accounting Office, the RAND Corporation...

Aks Zaheer

...is the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Strategic Management at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Edward J. Zajac

... is the James F. Beré Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is an elected Fellow of both the Strategic Management Society and ...

Maurizio Zollo

... is the Dean’s Chaired Professor in Strategy and Sustainability at the Management and Technology department of Bocconi University and Editor-In-Chief of Organization & Environment. He has also been visiting professor at the Sloan...

Christoph Zott

...is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at IESE Business School in Barcelona. His current research and teaching interests center on business model design and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership, entrepreneurial strategy and new venture creation. He has published on...