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Conference Program Chairs

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Julian Birkinshaw
...is Professor and Deputy Dean at the London Business School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Academy of International Business, and he has honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics and Copenhagen Business School...
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Costas Markides
...is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School. He also serves on the editorial Boards of several academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal and the Sloan Management Review. A native of Cyprus, he...

Theme Track Chairs

Theme A - New Perspectives on Strategy
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Emilie Feldman
... is the Michael L. Tarnopol Professor and 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 ...
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Bart Vanneste
...is Associate Professor of Strategy at UCL School of Management. His research focuses on corporate strategy, interorganizational relationships, and machine learning. His research has been published in leading academic journals...
Theme B - Responding to Disruption
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Lourdes Sosa
... is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science. She studies technology strategy and innovation management. In particular, she focuses on ...
Theme C - New Ways of Working in the Digital Age
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Michael Mol
... is a Professor of Strategic and International Management in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on the strategic management of larger firms, with particular interests in innovation, especially management innovation and open innovation, sourcing strategy, especially offshoring and outsourcing, and ...
Theme D - Addressing Social Issues
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Ioannis Ioannou
... is a leading strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). More specifically, he seeks to understand whether, how, and the extent to which the modern business organization contributes towards building a ...
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Caroline Flammer
...is a Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Climate at Columbia University. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Caroline is an expert in sustainable investing and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. Her research examines whether and...

Interest Group Track Chairs

Track E - Competitive Strategy
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Tomasz Obloj
... is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Indiana University. His research interests span areas of competitive strategy, organizational design and incentives, and behavioral strategy. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Strategic Management Journal. His work has been...
Track F - Corporate Strategy
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Metin Sengul
... is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his PhD from INSEAD. Metin’s research bridges competitive and corporate strategy by exploring the interdependence of organization design and strategy choices...
Track G - Global Strategy
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Tina Ambos
...is Professor of International Management and the Director of the Institute of Management at the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM) of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research and teaching interests...
Track H - Strategy Process
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Patricia Klarner
...is a Professor and Director of the Institute for Organization Design at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). Prior to her current position, she worked on the faculties of the Rotterdam School of...
Track I - Knowledge and Innovation
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Tobias Kretschmer
...is Professor of Strategy, Technology and Organization at the University of Munich and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. His research deals with strategy in digital industries, especially platform markets, and the role of organization design and...
Track J - Strategy Practice
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Eric Knight
...is Professor of Strategic Management at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University. His work focuses on how organizations formulate and implement strategies, with a specific interest in challenges associated with...
Track K - Entrepreneurship and Strategy
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Pinar Ozcan
... is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. She specializes in strategy, entrepreneurship, and the emergence of new markets. She completed her Ph.D. at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) at the Stanford University Management Science and Engineering Department, and ...
Track L - Strategic Human Capital
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Anthony Nyberg
...is a Professor at the University of South Carolina who teaches Negotiations, Rewards, and Research Methods. His research examines how organizations compete through people, specifically the strategic role of pay in the attraction, emergence, retention, and motivation of human capital resources...
Track M - Stakeholder Strategy
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Timothy Werner
...is an Associate Professor of Business, Government and Society and the Eleanor T. Mosle Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. His research examines external stakeholder management...
Track N - Cooperative Strategies
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Olga Bruyaka
... is an Assistant Professor of Management at West Virginia University. She received her PhD in Management from EM Lyon Business School (France). Olga Bruyaka’s research is focused on inter-organizational alliances and ...
Track O - Strategic Leadership and Governance
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Mike Mannor
...is the John F. O’Shaughnessy Associate Professor of Family Enterprise at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. His research primarily examines how the psychological characteristics of top executives...
Track P - Behavioral Strategy
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Stefano Brusoni
...is Professor of technology and Innovation Management at ETH Zurich (CH). His work focuses on innovation and learning processes in both individuals and organizations. His work has been published on journals such as Strategic Management Journal; Administrative Science Quarterly; Organization Science; Academy of Management Journal; Frontiers of Human Neuroscience; ..

Community Track Chairs

Track R - Research Methods Community
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Asli Musaoglu Arikan
... is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Kent State University. She received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University with concentrations in Strategic Management and Corporate Finance. Her research focuses...
Track T - Teaching Community
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Myleen Leary
...is an award-winning researcher who has published her research in leading management journals such as Strategic Management Journal and Group & Organizational Management. Her primary research interests are focused on exploring the...