Conference programme

Programme 2012

Sunday 13 May
11:00 - 12:00 Registration in Sainsbury Reception 
12:00 - 13:00  Welcome Lunch in the Garden Room 
Conference Sessions in LT1 
13:00 - 13:15  Welcome 
Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, Julian Birkinshaw
13:15 - 14:15  Keynote speaker
Ranjay Gulati
Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School
14:15 - 14:30  Coffee Break in S1 Lounge 
14:30 - 16:00  Academic paper track: The Drivers and Consequences of Corporate Social Innovation
Track chair: Ioannis Ioannou
Co-organiser: Brandon Lee

Presentations:

Lorenzo Massa* (Università di Bologna): Achieving Superior Sustainability Performances: Instrumentality, Legitimacy, Ethics and Slack Resources

Timothy Rowley (University of Toronto), Andrew Shipilov (INSEAD)* and Henrich Greve (INSEAD): Contested Institutional Change: External Goals versus Internal Performance Feedback

Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard Business School) and Dennis Yao (Harvard Business School)*: Integrated Strategy
 
Discussant: Maurizio Zollo (Bocconi University)
16:00 - 16:30  Coffee Break in S1 Lounge 
16:30 - 18:00  Topical panel: The Shifting Landscape of Entrepreneurial Finance
Track organisers: Gary Dushnitsky and Ben Hallen

Panellists:
 
Saul Klein (Index Ventures, SeedCamp)
Helmut Kraemer-Eis (European Investment Fund)
Robert Strom (Kauffman Foundation)
18:00 - 19:00  Drinks and Debate in the Garden Room 

Robert Grant (Bocconi University)
Freek Vermeulen (London Business School)
19:30 - 23:00  Dinner in the Garden Room 
   
Monday 14 May 
Conference Sessions in LT1
09:00 - 10:30 Academic paper track: Managing Across (Multiple) Boundaries
Track chair: Louise Mors
Co-organiser: Michael G. Jacobides

Presentations:

Seth Carnahan (University of Maryland) and Deepak Somaya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)*: The Alumni Effect: How the Hiring of Suppliers' Employees by Buyer Firms Affects Outsourcing Relationships

Bruno Cirillo (SKEMA Business School)*, Stefano Breschi (Bocconi University), and Andrea Prencipe (G. d'Annunzio University): Unleashing Explorative Potential: Spin-Outs as Linking Contexts of Inventors' Communities

Carmelo Cennamo (Bocconi University)*: Orchestrating the Ecosystem in the Race for the Market: How Platforms Build and Expand Their Ecosystem Overtime

Discussants: Robin Bienenstock (Senior Analyst European & Latin American Telecommunications, Sanford C Bernstein) and Philipp Nattermann (Partner, McKinsey & Company)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break in S1 Lounge
11:00 - 12:30 Topical panel: Strategy and Institutional Entrepreneurship
Track organisers: Donal Crilly and Yiorgos Mylonadis

Panellists:

Nicola Lacetera (University of Toronto)
Vicki Purewal (National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts)
Ariel Simon (McKinsey & Company)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch in the Garden Room
13:30 - 15:00 Academic paper track: Strategy and New Forms of Organization
Track chair: Phanish Puranam
Co-organisers: Kevin Boudreau and Costas Markides

Presentations:

Andrei Hagiu (Harvard Business School)* and Julian Wright (National University of Singapore): Multi-Sided Platforms

Karim Lakhani (Harvard Business School)*: Contests and New Ways to Stimulate Innovation

Discussant: Johan Vosmeijer (Managing Director, SellaBand)
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break in S1 Lounge
15:15 - 16:45 Academic paper track: Innovation and Technology Strategy
Track chair: Lourdes Sosa
Co-organiser: Julian Birkinshaw

Presentations:

Linus Dahlander (ESMT)*, Siobhan O'Mahony (Boston University), and David Gann (Imperial College): One Foot In, One Foot Out: How Individual Search Behavior Affects Innovation Outcomes

Matt Marx (MIT Sloan School of Management) and David Hsu (The Wharton School)*: Technology Commercialization Strategy Dynamics and Entrepreneurial Performance: Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry

Anita M. McGahan (University of Toronto)*, Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri) and Rahim Rezaie (University of Toronto): Entrepreneurship and Desperate Poverty: Biopharmaceutical Innovation in China, India, and Brazil

Discussant: Jordan Cohen (Director of Life Science and Healthcare Practice, PA Consulting)
16:45 - 17:00 Attention at academic conferences: An empirical test
Costas Markides
17:00 - 19:30 Drinks and Snacks in the Garden Room
  * Paper presenter