Jeffrey Reuer

Jeffrey J. Reuer is the Blake Family Endowed Chair in Strategic Management and Governance at the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. He started his academic career on the faculty of INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and has held tenured faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina, Ohio State University, and the University of Colorado.

Professor Reuer has led executive training sessions and seminars on strategic management for various organizations, ranging from startups and nonprofits to consultancies and large multinationals (e.g., Alliance Data Systems, Areva, Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, Association of Strategic Planning, BCG, Congo Business Network, Deallus, Eli Lilly, Elm Saudi Arabia, Ernst and Young, Holland Financial Center, International Lutheran Council, Kiewit, KLM, LG, Maynard Institute, Obverse, OSU Wexner Medical Center, Owens Corning, Pfizer, Philips, 3I PLC, 66degrees, and the World Bank). He has also been invited to teach in many executive education programs at Harvard Business School, Duke University, INSEAD, the Indian School of Business, the University of Mannheim, the University of Warwick, the University of St. Gallen, and Peking University. He is the recipient of several MBA teaching awards, including the Excellence in Teaching Award from Duke University for the best core course in the weekend EMBA program, the Salgo-Noren Outstanding Master’s Teaching Award at Purdue University, and the Executive MBA Faculty Award at the University of Colorado. He has served on boards of several startups and nonprofits and as a Regent at Concordia Theological Seminary.

Professor Reuer has served as an Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal and as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. He is a founding Editor in Chief of the Strategic Management Review. He co-edited a special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on the interplay of competition and cooperation, as well as a special issue of Strategy Science on strategic decisions and the integration of strategic management research. He has been a member of the editorial boards of nineteen journals and has received five best reviewer awards. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). He has also served as chair of the nomination and selection committee of the Fellows of the SMS, Chief Grants Officer of the Strategy Research Foundation, co-founder of the Cooperative Strategies Interest Group, and program chair of two SMS conferences. He is a Past Chair of the Academy of Management’s Strategic Management Division (5200 members) and has also served on that organization’s Executive Committee and Research Committee.

Professor Reuer’s research uses organizational economics to investigate firms’ external corporate development activities and growth strategies (e.g., strategic alliances, acquisitions, international joint ventures, etc.). Recent projects are on the governance and design of alliances, collaborative strategies, and applications of information economics and real options theory to various problems in strategy, international business, and entrepreneurship. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and was the first recipient of the SMS’ Emerging Scholar Award. He has served as the Dean of the Fellows of the SMS. He received the Silver Medal from the Journal of International Business Studies for lifetime scholarly contributions to that journal. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of the Distinguished Research Chair Award. He is widely published in the field’s major academic journals and has been invited to present his research at more than one hundred universities throughout the world. His publication credits also include eleven published books. He is regularly recognized with research awards and frequent citations to his work in academic research as well as strategy textbooks. Managerial insights from his research have also appeared as articles and research briefings in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Financial Times, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.