Conference programme

Sumantra Ghoshal Conference, 2-3 June 2013

 

Sunday 2 June

11:00 - 12:00

Registration in Sainsbury Reception 

12:00 - 13:00 

Welcome Lunch in the Garden Room 

Conference Sessions in LT9 

13:00 - 13:10

Welcome 
Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, Julian Birkinshaw

13:10 - 14:00

Keynote speaker
David Teece
(Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)

14:00 - 14:30

Coffee Break in S1 Lounge 

14:30 - 16:00 

Academic paper track I: Competing on Innovation, Data and Ideas

Track chair: Gary Dushnitsky
Co-organiser: Ben Hallen, Kevin Boudreau

Presentations:

Charles Eesley (Stanford University), Jian Bai Li (Stanford University) and Delin Yang (Tsinghua University): Does Institutional Change in Universities Influence High-Tech Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's Project 985

Sarah Kaplan (University of Toronto) and Keyvan Vakili (University of Toronto): Studying Breakthrough Innovations Using Topic Modeling: A Test Using Nanotechnology Patents

Atul Nerkar (Kenan-Flagler Business School) and Kevin Miceli (Kenan-Flagler Business School): Extreme Success and Failure in Pharmaceutical R&D: Evidence Based on the Bayh-Dole and Hatch-Waxman Acts

Discussant: Melissa Schilling (NYU Stern School of Business)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break in S1 Lounge 

16:30 - 18:15

Topical panel: The Future of Academic Journal Publishing

Track organiser: Sendil Ethiraj

Panellists:

Anita McGahan (University of Toronto): Associate editor Strategic Management Journal
Gautam Ahuja
(University of Michigan): Associate editor Organization Science
Gerard George(Imperial College): Editor Academy of Management Journal

Martha Mangelsdorf (MIT): Editor Sloan Management Review

Martin Kilduff (University College London): Associate editor Administrative Science Quarterly

18:30 - 19:00

Drinks and debatein the Garden room

Costas Markides (London Business School)
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell (Harvard Business School)

19:00 - 21:00 

Dinner in the Garden Room 

 

 

Monday 3 June 

 

Conference Sessions in LT9

 

09:00 - 10:30

Academic paper track II: Strategy and Intangible Resources

Track chair: Freek Vermeulen
Co-organiser: Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Brandon Lee

Presentations:

Adina Sterling (Olin Business School): Friendships and Strategic Behavior in Labor Markets

Richard Hunt (University of Colorado) and Matthew Hayward (University of Colorado): When Informal Exchange Enables Trust and Social Capital: Informal Loans to Employees and Firm Performance

Balagopal Vissa (INSEAD), Guoli Chen (INSEAD) and Ravee Chittoor (Indian School of Business): Which Old Boy Network Matters?

Discussant: Farooq Chaudhry (Akram Khan Company)

 

10:30 - 11:15

Coffee Break in S1 Lounge

 

11:15 - 12:15

Practitioner Presentation: Scaling Up Social Innovations: New Thinking From Rule-breakers

Track organiser: Costas Markides

Guest Panellists:

Nadia Sood (Impact Investment Partners)
Bob Thust (Deloitte)

Academic discussants:

Costas Markides (London Business School)
Anita McGahan (University of Toronto)

 

12:15 - 13:30

Lunch in the Garden Room

 

13:30 - 15:00

Academic paper track III: The Scope and Purpose of the Modern Corporation

Track chair: Ioannis Ioannou
Co-organisers: Donal Crilly, Michael G Jacobides

Presentations:

Mari Sako (Saïd Business School), George Chondrakis (Saïd Business School) and Paul Vaaler (Carlson School of Management): Resource Co-Specialization and Supplier Concentration in Concurrent Sourcing: Evidence from Legal Services Sourcing at Fortune 500 Companies

Emilie Feldman (The Wharton School), Raphael Amit (The Wharton School) and Belén Villalonga (Leonard N. Stern School of Business): Corporate Divestitures and Family Control

Nathan Furr (Marriott School of Management) and Rahul Kapoor (The Wharton School): Complementarities and Capabilities: Unpacking the Drivers of Entrants' Technology Choices in the Solar Photovoltaic Industry

Christian Geisler Asmussen (Copenhagen Business School), Nicolai Foss (Copenhagen Business School) and Philip Nell (Copenhagen Business School): A Double-Edged Sword: Procedural Justice Constrains Harmful and Benefical Headquarters Intervention

Discussant: Laurence Capron (INSEAD)

 

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break in S1 Lounge

 

15:30 - 17:00

Topical panel: Learning from Outliers

Track organisers: Costas Markides, Julian Birkinshaw, Lourdes Sosa, Yiorgos Mylonadis

Panellists:

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell (Harvard Business School)
Rita Gunther McGrath (Columbia Business School)

 

17:00 - 17:15

Conclusion

Julian Birkinshaw

 

17:30 - 18:30

Drinks and Snacks in the Garden Room