Curba Morris Lampert is the Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Endowment Chair and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Florida International University. Professor Lampert holds a Ph.D. in Management from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, an M.P.P. from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. Professor Lampert studies technology strategy and innovation, focusing on issues of knowledge management, value creation and appropriation, and entrepreneurship in the large corporation. Her current research examines barriers to imitation, corporate venture capital, and internal knowledge generation for complex problems. She has published articles in leading scholarly journals that include the Academy of Management Annals, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and the Strategic Management Journal. Her publications have garnered over 4,000 citations. Professor Lampert serves on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal, the strategy discipline’s flagship publication.