Imagining, Leading, and Governing the Future of Mobility
Leaders
Panelists
Sam Garg,
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
David Kirsch,
University of Maryland
Sandeep Pillai,
Bocconi University
Mary Tripsas,
UC Santa Barbara
Tiona Zuzul,
Harvard Business School
Luis Martins,
University of Texas at Austin
Violina Rindova,
University of Southern California
Across several industries, firms are facing a range of mega-disruptions driven by technological changes, new stakeholder demands, and a range of other sources of uncertainty and ambiguity. The goal of the session is to identify important and promising questions that researchers could pursue in understanding how firms can develop effective strategies in such contexts, in which the nature of the future is contested among firms and across a variety of current and potential stakeholders. In particular, the session will highlight the challenges associated with imagining the future, leading and shaping the development of the industry, and the governance issues that must be considered in strategizing in such contexts. The specific context we will use as the grounding for the discussion in this session is the auto industry. The industry faces major disruption as a consequence of the convergence of four trends – autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification, and car sharing – which has generated significant discussion and debate about the future of the industry and of mobility (Gao et al., 2016; Tschiesner et al., 2019). Auto industry executives and various experts have opined on the future of mobility, and this future is hotly debated within the industry. The debate provides a rich context for understanding how firms and key stakeholders imagine, lead, organize, and govern when facing a future consisting of many possible trajectories and discontinuities, some mutually exclusive and some not.
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Harnessing life experience into organizational success: Evidence from practice and research
Leaders
Panelists
Giada Di Stefano,
Bocconi University
Lamar Pierce,
Washington University in St. Louis
Riccarda Zezza,
Lifeed
Chiara Bacilieri,
Lifeed
Many of the same skills and areas of knowledge that help individuals navigate the most difficult life experiences translate into common challenges faced by managers and other professionals. To discuss how employees and employers can harness life experiences into organizational success, we have put together a team with different and complementary expertise.
We will first hear from Riccarda Zezza (Founder and CEO) and Chiara Bacilieri (Head of Data) from Lifeed, a VC backed edtech scale-up. Lifeed was founded in 2015 by Riccarda with the aim to change the way work and life interact. To this end, together with her team, she developed a unique learning methodology that transforms life experiences into business skills. Riccarda will present the Lifeed method, and Chiara will provide additional details on how the method combines big data and small data to bring out the potential of each user.
We will then put the Lifeed experience in context by leveraging on the insights from research developed by Lamar Pierce (Washington University in St. Louis) and Giada Di Stefano (Bocconi University). In particular, Lamar will discuss how organizations can better understand and support employee health, and benefit from it in turn. Giada, on the other hand, will focus on some specific interventions that organizations can put in place to foster learning and growth in their employees.
We expect to generate a discussion that could be of interest for academics and practitioners. Academics may discover potential research opportunities associated to the study of these topics. Practitioners may learn how supporting their employees as they face challenging life experiences can be beneficial for their organizations.
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