SIM Seminar Series

The SIM area holds a number of seminars each term in which faculty from London Business School and other academic institutions present their research.

The SIM seminar series is the central forum for the presentation of papers and current research relating to strategic and international management.  Leading academics from business schools around the world are invited to present their papers and SIM recruitment candidate presentations are also included.  The seminar series is co-ordinated by  Margaret Kyle and Lourdes Sosa.  For any questions, please email mkyle@london.edu or lsosa@london.edu. Seminars which have taken place recently and which are scheduled over the next few months are as follows:

           
Wed 9 Jan 2008
12.30-14.00
  John Joseph 
PhD candidate
Kellogg School of Business
LT3 "Big Pictures, Big Bets and Innovation: Goal Activation and the Commercialization of New Technologies at Motorola"
Paper will be available in seminar 
Thu 10 Jan
12.30-14.00
  Claus Rerup
Assistant Prof of OB
Richard Ivey School of Business
  LT3 "Attentional Triangulation: A New Process Perspective on Discovering and Learning from Unexpected Rare Events"
Paper will be available in seminar
Mon 14 Jan
15.30-17.00
  JP Eggers
PhD candidate
Wharton School
  LT3 "Falling Flat: Failed Technologies and Investment Under Uncertainty"
Paper will be available in seminar
Fri 18 Jan
12.30-14.00
  Rahul Kapoor
PhD candidate
INSEAD 
  LT4 "What Firms Make vs. What They Know: How Firms' Production and Knowledge Boundaries Affect Competitive Advantage in the Face of Technological Change"
Paper will be available in seminar
Mon 21 Jan
12.15-13.45
  Rodrigo Canales
PhD candidate
MIT 
  LT4

 "From Ideals to Institutions: Institutional Entrepreneurship in Mexican Small Business Finance"
Paper will be available in seminar 

Fri 25 Jan
12.30-14.00
  Maggie Zhou
PhD candidate
University of Michigan 
  WLT "Related Diversification and Structural Complexity"
Paper will be available in seminar
Thu 31 Jan
12.30-14.00
  Srividya Jandhyala
PhD candidate
Wharton School
  LT3 "De facto Property Rights Protection & MNC Location Choices"
Paper will be available in seminar
Fri 1 Feb
12.30-14.00
  Samina Karim
Assistant Prof, Strategy and Policy
Boston University
  LT2 "Reorganization and Innovation: How firms learn in the process of structural change"
Paper will be available in seminar
Mon 25 Feb
12.15-13.45
 

Rod White
Associate Professor General Management
University of Western Ontario
Ivey School

  LT3

"No Free Lunch: How Strategic Position Relates to Profitability and Failure"
Download Paper (170KB)

Fri 7 Mar
12.15-13.45
  David Obstfield
Assistant Professor Org & Strategy
University of California, Irvine
  LT2

"Creative Projects: A Less-Routine Approach to Getting New Things Done"
Download Paper (135KB)

Mon 10 Mar
12.15-13.45
  Dovev Lavie
Assistant Professor of Management
University of Texas
McCombs School
  LT3

"Interorganizational Fit, Relational Mechanisms, and Alliance Performance"
Paper will be available at seminar

Wed 12 Mar
postponed to
17 March, 13.30-15.00

  Matthew Bidwell
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Management, INSEAD
   LT3  "Politics and Firm Boundaries"
Download paper (271KB)
Fri 14 Mar
12.15-13.45
  Tobias Kretschmer
Professor of Management
Ludwig-Maximilians University
Munich
  The Fairbairn Room "Usage and Diffusion of Cellular Telephony, 1998-2004"
Download paper (341KB)
Fri 28 Mar
12.15-13.45
  Scott Rockart
Assistant Professor of Strategy
DUKE
  LT4 "Does Interpendency Affect Industry Profitability?  An Empirical Test"
Download Paper (142KB)

Mon 31 Mar
12.30-14.00

 

David Bryce
Assistant Professor of Strategy
BYU, Marriott School

  LT4 "Leaping to New Markets: The Performance Consequences of Core Strategic Change"
Download Paper (246KB)
Tue 1 Apr
12.30-14.00
  Kevin Boudreau
Assistant Professor of Strategy, HEC
  LT2  "Incentives versus diversity: re-examining the link between competition and innovation"

Mon 14 Apr
12.15-13.45 

  Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Associate Professor of Business Admin
Harvard Business School
  WLT

"Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods"
Paper will be available at seminar

Fri 18 Apr
12.15-13.45
 

Nils Stieglitz
Assistant Professor
Strategic Organization Design
University of Southern Denmark

  LT3 "Surfing on the good waves: How firms benefit from changing market conditions"
Download Paper (254 KB)
Fri 25 Apr
12.15-13.45
  Andrew Shipilov
Assistant Professor of Strategy
INSEAD
  LT4 "Attention Worth Billions: Transferability of ties across networks in the Investment Banking Industry, 1980-2001"
Download Paper (289 KB)
Fri 2 May
12.15-13.45
 

Dan Levinthal
Professor of Management
University of Pennsylvania,
Wharton

  LT4

"Bringing Context to the Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off: Considering the Impact of Selection and Turbulent Environments"
Download Paper (1,622 KB)

Wed 7 May
12.15-13.45
  Ming-Jer Chen
Professor of Business Admin
University of Virginia,
Darden School
  LT5 "Executive Dynamics, Competitive Response, and Firm Performance: An Integrated Investigation".
Paper will be available at seminar

Fri 16 May
12.15-13.45

  Mary Tripsas
Associate Professor of Business Admin
Harvard Business School
  WLT "Technology, Identity and Inertia through the Lens of 'The Digital Photography Company' 
Download Paper (285 KB)

Tue 27 May
12.15-13.45 

 

Michael Ryall
Associate Professor of Strategy & Economics
Melbourne School of Business

  LT5  "Causal Ambiguity as a Source of Sustained Capability-Based Advantage"
 Download Paper (300 KB)


Fri  6 June
12.15-13.45

 

Emilio Castilla
Assistant Professor of Management
MIT, Sloan School of Management

  LT5

This Event is a Joint SIM/OB Seminar:
"Pay for Performance? Race and Gender Bias in Peformance Evaluation Processes".
Paper will be available at seminar

Tue 16 Sep 
12.15-13.45
 

Violina Rindova
Associate Professor of Management
University of Texas,
McCombs School of Business

  LT5 

"Becoming a Cultural Producer: A Study of the Strategic Transformation of an Italian Manufacturer"
No paper available

Fri 19 Sep
12:15-13:45

  Mike Ryall
Associate Professor of Strategy & Economics
Melbourne Business School
  LT5

"Do New Competitors, New Customers, New Suppliers,... Sustain, Destroy or Create Competitive Advantage?"
Download Paper (223 KB)

Mon 22 Sep
12.15-13.45

 

Bart Vanneste
SIM PhD

  LT2

"Repeated Interactions and Contractual Detail: Identifying the Learning Effect"
Download Paper (239 KB)

Mon 29 Sep
12.15-13.45

 

Bharat Anand
Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

  LT5

"Spatial Competition in Cable News: Where are Larry King and O'Reilly in Latent Attribute Space?"
Download Paper (409 KB)

Mon 6 Oct
12.15-13.45
  Tim Pollock
Professor of Management & Organization, Penn State University 
  LT3

"Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck: The Contingent Value of Venture Capitalist Reputation"
Download Paper (305 KB)

Mon 13 Oct
12.15-13.45 

 

Emek Basker
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Missouri

  LT3 "Supersize It: The Growth of Retail Chains and the Rise of the 'Big Box' Retail Format" Download Paper (746 KB)

Mon 20 Oct
12.15-13.45 

  Kate Kellogg
Assistant Professor, Organization Studies, MIT Sloan
  LT3  "Challenging Operations: Relational Spaces and Institutional Change in Two Surgical Teaching Hospitals" Paper available at seminar

Mon 27 Oct
12.15-13.45

  Wesley Sine
Assistant Professor Management &
Organizations, Cornell University
  LT3 "From Pabst to Pepsi: The Deinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities" Download Paper (275 KB)
Tue 28 Oct
12.15-13.45 
 

Yang Fan
SIM PhD

  LT4  "The Impact of Inter-Firm Relationship on the Allocation of Control Rights in Bio-Pharmaceutical Alliances" Download Paper (154 KB)

Mon 3 Nov
12.15-13.45

 

Margaret Kyle
Assistant Professor SIM &
Economics

  LT3 "The Timing of Licensing: Theory and Empirics" Download Paper (383 KB)
Mon 17 Nov
12.15-13.45
 

Ingrid Nembhard
Assistant Professor,
Health Policy &Admin
Yale University

  LT3 "Learn-how to Overcome the Challenges to Organizational Learning" Download Paper (144 KB)

Wed 19 Nov
12.15-13.45 

 

Fiona Murray
Associate Professor of Management
Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan 

  LT3 "Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Impact of Openness on Innovation"Download Paper (247 KB)
Mon 24 Nov
12.15-13.45
 

Bruno Cassiman
Professor of Strategic Management
IESE

 

 

LT3

"In Search of Performance Effects of (In)direct Industry Science Links" Download Paper (282 KB)

Mon 1 Dec
12.15-13.45

  Scott Stern
Associate Professor Management &
Strategy, Northwestern University
  LT3 TBC
Tue 9 Dec
12.15-13.45
 

Andrea Prencipe
Associate Professor of Econ
& Mgt Innovation,
University of G. D'Annunzio & Research Fellow University of Sussex

  LT5 TBC
           
           

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