SMS | Frankfurt Conference

Conference Program Chairs

Ronald Klingebiel

...is Professor of Strategy at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He researches decision-making problems under uncertainty. This includes resource allocation strategies in innovation processes as well as dynamic approaches to strategic planning...

Tobias Kretschmer

... is Professor of Strategy, Technology and Organization at the University of Munich and Dean of the Munich School of Management. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London...

Serden Ozcan

...is a Professor and the Otto Beisheim Endowed Chair of Innovation and Corporate Transformation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, where he is also the Academic Director of Executive Education. His current research...

Nils Stieglitz

...is the President and Managing Director of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. In 2012 he became a full Professor for Strategic Management at Frankfurt School. Three years later he became Head of the business school´s Management Department. In November 2017...

Theme Track Chairs

Theme A - Risky Choice and Luck

Daniella Laureiro-Martínez

...studies the cognitive and neuropsychological antecedents of strategy and innovation. She combines neurosciences and psychology to understand creativity, decision-making, organizational learning and....

Libby Weber

... is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of California, Irvine. Her research integrates social and cognitive psychology into transaction cost economics to examine how these factors influence interfirm and intrafirm exchanges ...

Theme B - Innovation Under Uncertainty

J.P. Eggers

... is an Associate Professor of Management & Organizations at NYU’s Stern School of Business. His research focuses on the challenges for managerial decision making created by high levels of uncertainty, such as ...

Anu Wadhwa

...is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Her research focuses on corporate entrepreneurship including corporate venture capital investments, innovation and knowledge creation via inter-organizational networks, and decision making under uncertainty. She has...

Theme C - Organizational Learning and Adaptation

Vibha Gaba

... is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and The INSEAD Fellow in Memory of Erin Anderson. She is broadly interested in how organizations learn and how it impacts their ability to innovate and adapt especially in ...

John Joseph

... is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. John Joseph received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University...

Theme D - Firm Scope and Governance

Emilie Feldman

...is an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where she studied Economics and...

Aseem Kaul

...is the Mosaic Company - Jim Prokopanko Professor for Corporate Responsibility and an Associate Professor with the Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His research...