Strategic Management News and Events

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• 31

  Oct

  Strategic Management Seminar Series featuring Helge Klapper

  Helge Klapper is an assistant professor of Strategic Management at Purdue University. His research interests include organizational decision making and novel forms of organizing. More specifically, his work examines how technology, such as blockchain or artificial intelligence, helps or hinders effective organizational decision making. Helge is also interested how hierarchies or lack of hierarchies affect organizational decisions. Helge Klapper will present "Vicarious learning in innovation contests: Epistemic crowding and emergent coordination" on October 31, 2025.

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• 3

  Oct

  Strategic Management Seminar Series featuring Yue Maggie Zhou

  Yue Maggie Zhou is a Professor of Strategy at University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. Her research is in the areas of corporate strategy, competitive strategy, institutional strategy and organizational structure. Her recent studies instigate the role of task complexity and competing institutional demands in setting limits to firm growth, the use and effects of competitive strategies between firms on and off digital platforms and within technological ecosystems, as well as organizational design for domestic and multinational corporations. In addition to theoretical models,she has examined these issues in a broad range of empirical settings including air transportation, commercial spaceflight, electricity, fintech, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, restaurant, rideshare, soft drink, and solar photovoltaic installation industries. Her work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategy Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Advances in Strategic Management. She is an Associate Editor for Management Science and Strategic Management Journal. She also serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science and Strategy Science.

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• 26

  Sep

  Strategic Management Seminar Series featuring Emilie Feldman

  Emilie R. 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 French Literature, and she received her MBA and DBA in Strategy from the Harvard Business School. Emilie’s research focuses on corporate strategy and governance, with particular interests in the internal functioning of multi-business firms and the role that divestitures, spinoffs, and mergers and acquisitions play in corporate reconfiguration. Her research has been published in top academic journals, and she has received numerous scholarly awards, including the Emerging Scholar Award from the Strategic Management Society in 2017. Emilie currently serves as a Senior Editor of Organization Science, and she previously served as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal. She is on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, and theStrategic Management Review. Emilie teaches courses on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate strategy, and corporate governance in the undergraduate, MBA, law, and executive programs at Wharton and Penn. She received the Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017 and the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award every year since 2018. She was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants in 2019.

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• 15

  Aug

  Strategic Management Seminar Series featuring Jaideep (Jay) Anand

  Jaideep (Jay) Anand is the William H. Davis Chair and Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Strategy at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. He has also served as the Academic Director of the Center for Innovation Strategies and currently serves as the Academic Director of the OSU India Gateway. Prior to joining Fisher, he was faculty at the University of Michigan (Ross). He earned a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His interests include competitive advantage, corporate growth, mergers & acquisitions, strategic alliances, global strategy and strategy implementation. Dr. Anand will present "When is less better than more? Reductions in Firm Scale and Scope during Economic Downturns".

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• 11

  Apr

  Strategic Management Seminar Speaker Series featuring Dr. Anthony Gibbs

  The Strategic Management Seminar Speaker Series will feature Dr. Anthony Gibbs on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 11:30 am ET. Dr. Gibbs is an Assistant Professor at the Mitch Daniels School of Business and will present "Strategic Paralysis: Transaction Delay in Mergers and Acquisitions and Post-deal Performance"

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• 24

  Mar

  Strategic Management ​​ Seminar Speaker Series​​ featuring Dr. Michael Leiblein and Dr. Joe Mahoney

  The Strategic Management ​​Seminar Speaker Series​​ has invited two special speakers to present on Monday, March 24, 2025 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ET. Dr. Michael Leiblein is a Professor of Management at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University and will present Technology Trajectories in the Presence of Uncertainty: The Case of Green Tech" at 10:00 am ET. Dr. Joe Mahoney is the Caterpillar Chair of Business at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will discuss "Theorizing as Problem-solving: A Pragmatist Perspective on the Logic of Pursuit" at 11:00 am ET.

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• 14

  Feb

  Strategic Management ​​ Seminar Speaker Series​​ featuring Dr. Brian T. McCann

  Brian T. McCann is the David K. Wilson Chair and Professor of Strategic Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Brian's research interests span strategic management and entrepreneurship, and his work has appeared in leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Management. He is also the co-author of the leading textbook Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach, currently published in its sixth edition. Professor McCann teaches in Owen’s MBA, Executive MBA, and MMHC programs; his classes include Corporate Strategy, Strategic Management, Managing Under Uncertainty, and Managerial Decision Making.

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• 17

  Jan

  Strategic Management Seminar Speaker Series featuring Minyuan Zhao

  Dr. Minyuan Zhao is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. She will talk about “Seeking Credibility: Impartial Courts, Geopolitics, and Location Choice for Patent Litigation”

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