SMS

Conference Program Chairs

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Gregory R. Page
... is retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cargill, Inc. He served as Executive Director of Cargill from September 2015-August 2016, as Executive Chairman from December 2013 to September 2015...
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Myles Shaver
...is Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management where he holds the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Corporate Strategy. Myles’ research interests include corporate expansion and corporate headquarters strategies. His research is published in SMJ, GSJ, Management Science, Strategy Science, Organization Science, ASQ, AMR, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, JIBS, IJIO, Strategic Organization, JOM, AMD, and...

Theme Track Chairs

Theme A - Strategic Management in 'Out of the Spotlight' Contexts
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Brian Wu
... is an Associate Professor of Strategy (with tenure) and Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He received his B.S. from from Tsinghua University in China, M.Sc. from...
Theme B - Secrecy and Strategy
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Giada Di Stefano
...is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University. Her general research interests are in the area of innovation, knowledge, and organizational learning. More specifically, she studies the creation and transfer of knowledge, with...
Theme C - Fostering Robust and Reliable Research in Strategic Management
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Gwendolyn Lee
...is the Chester C. Holloway Professor at the University of Florida, Warrington College of Business. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from MIT. Gwen is on the...

Interest Group Track Chairs

Track E - Competitive Strategy
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PuayKhoon Toh
... is an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his Ph.D in Strategy from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2007. He studies technology strategy, focusing on how competition and appropriation issues influence ...
Track F - Corporate Strategy
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Mario Schijven
... is an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In his primary line of research, he builds on ...
Track G - Global Strategy
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Felipe Monteiro
...is a Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, France and a Senior Fellow of The Wharton School Mack Institute for Innovation Management. Before joining INSEAD, he was a...
Track H - Strategy Process
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Frances Fabian
...has published articles in several leading journals including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Policy, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, and...
Track I - Knowledge and Innovation
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Elena Novelli
...is Professor of strategy at Bayes Business School of City, University of London. Her research focuses on knowledge and its role in affecting performance and decision making. She has explored this question with conceptual as well as empirical research (observational studies, and natural and field experiments). Her work has been published in academic journals ...
Track J - Strategy Practice
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Shenghui Ma
... is an Associate Professor at the Fudan University School of Management. He was a Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Strategy at the University of Zurich and a Visiting Associate at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on CEO succession, top management team dynamics, strategic change, and sensemaking...
Track K - Entrepreneurship and Strategy
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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...
Track L - Strategic Human Capital
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David Kryscynski
...is an Associate Professor of Strategy at BYU and Visiting Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan. His research explores how companies can realize competitive advantages through people. He seeks to systematically challenge assumptions in strategy theories that are...
Track M - Stakeholder Strategy
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Olga Hawn
...is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Faculty Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Sustainability Distinguished Fellow at the Kenan-Flagler Business School...
Track N - Cooperative Strategies
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Isin Guler
...is Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has received her PhD from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...
Track O - Strategic Leadership & Governance
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Christine Shropshire
...is Associate Professor of Management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Her research is broadly in the area of corporate governance, including board composition and effectiveness, diversity in the upper...
Track P - Behavioral Strategy
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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...

Community Track Chairs

Track R - Research Methods Community
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Andreas Schwab
...is an Associate Professor and Dean's Professor at Iowa State University. He studies organizational learning and innovation processes in dynamic environments, such as project ventures, temporary organizations and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Since 2005, he is engaged in several initiatives to advance methodological practices by promoting approaches to causal inference that go beyond statistical significance tests and...
Track T - Teaching Community
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Ronaldo Parente
...is the Ryder Eminent Scholar Fellow and Professor of Strategy and International Business at Florida International University. Dr. Parente is also a visiting scholar at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV-EBAPE) in Brazil. His research focus is on...