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" | ||
| 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 |
LT3 |
"No Free Lunch: How Strategic Position Relates to Profitability and Failure" | ||
| 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" | ||
| 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" | ||
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Wed 12 Mar |
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) | ||
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Mon 31 Mar |
David Bryce |
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" | ||
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Mon 14 Apr |
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Associate Professor of Business Admin Harvard Business School |
WLT |
"Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods" | ||
| Fri 18 Apr 12.15-13.45 |
Nils Stieglitz |
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 |
LT4 |
"Bringing Context to the Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off: Considering the Impact of Selection and Turbulent Environments" | ||
| 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 | ||
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Fri 16 May |
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) | ||
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Tue 27 May |
Michael Ryall |
LT5 | "Causal Ambiguity as a Source of Sustained Capability-Based Advantage" Download Paper (300 KB) | ||
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Emilio Castilla |
LT5 |
This Event is a Joint SIM/OB Seminar: | ||
| Tue 16 Sep 12.15-13.45 |
Violina Rindova |
LT5 |
"Becoming a Cultural Producer: A Study of the Strategic Transformation of an Italian Manufacturer" | ||
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Fri 19 Sep |
Mike Ryall Associate Professor of Strategy & Economics Melbourne Business School |
LT5 |
"Do New Competitors, New Customers, New Suppliers,... Sustain, Destroy or Create Competitive Advantage?" | ||
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Mon 22 Sep |
Bart Vanneste |
LT2 |
"Repeated Interactions and Contractual Detail: Identifying the Learning Effect" | ||
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Mon 29 Sep |
Bharat Anand |
LT5 |
"Spatial Competition in Cable News: Where are Larry King and O'Reilly in Latent Attribute Space?" | ||
| 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" | ||
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Mon 13 Oct |
Emek Basker |
LT3 | "Supersize It: The Growth of Retail Chains and the Rise of the 'Big Box' Retail Format" Download Paper (746 KB) | ||
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Mon 20 Oct |
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 | ||
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Mon 27 Oct |
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 |
LT4 | "The Impact of Inter-Firm Relationship on the Allocation of Control Rights in Bio-Pharmaceutical Alliances" Download Paper (154 KB) | ||
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Mon 3 Nov |
Margaret Kyle |
LT3 | "The Timing of Licensing: Theory and Empirics" Download Paper (383 KB) | ||
| Mon 17 Nov 12.15-13.45 |
Ingrid Nembhard |
LT3 | "Learn-how to Overcome the Challenges to Organizational Learning" Download Paper (144 KB) | ||
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Wed 19 Nov |
Fiona Murray |
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 |
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LT3 |
"In Search of Performance Effects of (In)direct Industry Science Links" Download Paper (282 KB) | |
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Mon 1 Dec |
Scott Stern Associate Professor Management & Strategy, Northwestern University |
LT3 | TBC | ||
| Tue 9 Dec 12.15-13.45 |
Andrea Prencipe |
LT5 | TBC | ||
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