STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SOCIETY - Key Persons


A. Bombardier

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Entrepreneurship
...is Professor of entrepreneurship at HEC Montréal where he holds the Rogers-J.-A. Bombardier Chair of Entrepreneurship. His research centers on the cognitive processes that support the identification of new venture ideas, entrepreneurs' internationalization choices, and ...

Africa Ariño - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Alain Verbeke

... is a Professor of International Business Strategy and holds the McCaig Research Chair in Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He was previously the Director of the MBA program...

Aleksandra Kacperczyk

...is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. She received her PhD in Management and Organizations from the University of Michigan. Her research is currently focused on talent management in the context of...

Amy Hillman

...is dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business, is a world-renowned management expert, a popular teacher and a noted researcher. She heads up one of the largest and highest-ranked business schools in the nation. The W. P. Carey School has more than 16,000 students...

Andreas Schotter

...is an Associate Professor of International Business at the Ivey Business School. He holds the F.W.P. Jones Faculty Fellowship. He is also a John H. Dunning Fellow at Henley Business School in the UK and an Adjunct Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and...

Ann-Katherin Herfeld

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Anne Jacqueminet

...is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Strategic Management from HEC Paris. Her research looks at...

Anthony Goerzen

...earned his PhD from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. His primary research interests center on the strategic management of firms competing in international markets with a focus on the...

Anu Wadhwa

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
...is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Her research focuses on corporate entrepreneurship including corporate venture capital investments, innovation and knowledge creation via inter-organizational networks, and decision making under uncertainty. She has...

Arkadiy Sakhartov

...is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Gies College of Business of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Academic Co-director of the Hoeft Technology and Management Program. Arkadiy received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management at...

Aseem Kaul

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Membership Committee
  • Member of Governance & Nominating Committee
  • Member of the Research Committee

Barbara Grobicki

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Member of the Ethics Committee
  • Member of the Practitioner Strategy Committee
  • Member of the Publications Committee
  • Member of the Research Committee
  • Member of Publications Committee

Becky Reuber

...is Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman. Her research focuses on the growth strategies of entrepreneurial organizations, including internationalization, opportunity creation...

Carlo Salvato

... is a Full Professor of strategic management and entrepreneurship at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he is a fellow of the ICRIOS Research Center. He obtained a PhD in business administration and management from ...

Catherine Maritan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Cecilia Dones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Christoph Zott

... is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at IESE Business School in Barcelona. His research and teaching interests center on business model design and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership, entrepreneurial strategy and ...

Constance Helfat

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Publications Committee
  • Member of the Research Committee
  • Member of Publications Committee

Craig Crossland - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee
  • Treasurer

Dana Minbaeva

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Human Resource Management at King 's Business School
Dana Minbaeva is a Professor of Human Resource Management at King's Business School. Her research on strategic international HRM, knowledge sharing and transfer in multinational corporations has appeared in such top international journals as Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, and many others. Professor Minbaeva published more than 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, numerous book chapters and reports. She received several national and international awards for research achievements and knowledge dissemination, including the prestigious JIBS Decade Award 2013. Professor Minbaeva has been working with Diversity & Inclusion initiatives in international academic associations such as the Academy of Management (HR Division), Academy of International Business and European Academy of International Business. She is a President of WAIB, a networking organization for women at the Academy of International Business. At SMS, Dana was a part of the special task force on Diversity and Inclusion that in 2018 delivered recommendations to the SMS Board, and currently is SMS ombudsperson.

Daniella Laureiro-Martínez

...works at ETH Zurich (CH) where she is the director of the COLAB, a research group that studies the cognitive antecedents of adaptive behavior in environments that change. They rely on....

David H. Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Management and Entrepreneurship and Dean 's Council Distinguished Scholar at the W.P. Carey School of Business
... is Professor in Management and Entrepreneurship and Dean's Council Distinguished Scholar at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He builds on behavioral theories to examine strategic decision making of top executives and...

Denisa Mindruta

Track M - Stakeholder Strategy Jiao Luo ...is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Jiao's research is at the intersection of organization theory and non-market strategy. Building on the notion that... more Track N - Cooperative Strategies Denisa Mindruta ... is an Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. She earned her PhD in strategic management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines how organizations and individuals within organizations... more

Dmitry Sharapov

...is an associate professor of innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London. He studies strategy in uncertain environments, with a particular focus on imitation, innovation, and competitive dynamics...

Dongwook Kim

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Eero Vaara

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Organisations and Impact at Saïd Business School
... is Professor in Organisations and Impact at Saïd Business School at University of Oxford. He also serves as Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University. His research ...

Elizabeth Altman

...is an assistant professor of management at the Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is also Guest Editor, Future of the Workforce at MIT Sloan Management Review. She has...

Esther Tippmann

... is Professor of Strategy, Leadership and Change and Head of the Management Discipline at National University of Ireland Galway. Before joining NUI Galway, she was a faculty member at University College Dublin and ...

Felipe Monteiro

...is a Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, France and a Senior Fellow of The Wharton School Mack Institute for Innovation Management. Before joining INSEAD, he was a...

Gabriel R.G. Benito

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Publications Committee
  • Member of Publications Committee

Gary Dushnitsky

...is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at The Mack Institute for Innovation Management at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). Gary's work focuses on... ... is an Associate Professor in Wharton's Management Department. His research examines different aspects of how people are matched to jobs, including the balance between hiring and internal development, how talent flows between organizations, the ...

George Stalk Jr

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Ethics Committee
  • Member of the Conference Committee
  • Member of the Membership Committee
  • Member of the Practitioner Strategy Committee

Giada Di Stefano

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Guoli Chen

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
...is a Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. His research focuses on the influence of CEOs, executives, and boards of directors on firms' strategic choices and organizational outcomes. He is interested in firm growth, organizational renewal, corporate development and...

Gwendolyn Lee - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of Governance & Nominating Committee
  • Member of the Conference Committee

Heli Wang

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Research Committee
  • Member of Governance & Nominating Committee
  • Member of the Publications Committee
  • Member of Publications Committee

J Ignacio Canales

...is a Professor of Management at the business school of the University of Aberdeen. Previously he held posts as Professor, Reader and Senior Lecturer in Strategy at the Adam Smith Business School in...

James Westphal

...is the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Jim conducts research on the sociology and social psychology of corporate governance and...

Jamie Cattell

...is Managing Partner Enterprise Strategy, GBS, for digital transformation, ecosystem, and platform strategies at IBM Corporation. He focuses on the healthcare, insurance, and automotive industries, helping clients develop...

Javier Gimeno - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of Governance & Nominating Committee
  • Member of the Practitioner Strategy Committee
  • Member of the Publications Committee
  • Member of Publications Committee

Jiao Luo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management

John McGee

John McGee joined Warwick Business School in 1994. He is currently Associate Dean for the MBA Program and Professor of Strategic Management. John McGee is also a former President of the Strategic Management Society. He has been Head of the Marketing & Strategic Management Group (1998-2001) and was Director of the Center for Corporate Strategy & Change (1995-1997). John McGee was educated at Manchester University in England, where he obtained a first class honors degree in economics, and at Stanford University in California where he obtained his doctorate at the Graduate School of Business. From 1970 to 1985 he was at the London Business School seeing it in its formative years. He was the founding Director of the Alumni Association in 1972. In 1982 he was the Founding Director of the Centre for Business Strategy. He then moved to Templeton College, Oxford. At Templeton he had major client management responsibilities including Thames Water, Merck Inc., British Aerospace, and Andersen Consulting. He was closely involved in the planning of the Oxford MBA and became Dean of Templeton in 1992.

Julian Birkinshaw

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Publications Committee
  • Member of the Ethics Committee
  • Member of the Research Committee
  • Member of Publications Committee
...is Professor and Deputy Dean at the London Business School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Academy of International Business, and he has honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics and Copenhagen Business School...

Juliane Reinecke

... is Professor of International Management and Sustainability at King's Business School, King's College London, where she has also served as Associate Dean for Impact and Innovation. Previously, she held a Professorship at ...

Koen Heimeriks

Track G - Global Strategy Birgitte Grøgaard ...is a Professor at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include multinational firm strategies, headquarter-subsidiary relations, integration challenges in multinationals, and... more Track H - Strategy Process Koen Heimeriks ...is Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School. Previously, he was faculty at Copenhagen Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, and Tilburg University and he has also been visiting at Aalto, Carnegie Mellon University, and... more

Laurence Capron

...is the Paul Desmarais Chaired Professor of Partnership and Active Ownership at INSEAD and Director of INSEAD Executive Education Program on "M&As and Corporate Strategy". She is Visiting Professor of Strategy at MIT Sloan School of...

Liena Kano

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
... is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Global Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, and the Alan M. Rugman Visiting Fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. Her research...

Madeleine Rauch

...is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on strategic decision-makings...

Mark DesJardine

... is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Mark's research focuses on unpacking how financial markets shape the sustainability of companies. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including ... ... is Vernon W. and Marion K. Professor of Strategy at the Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis ...

Matthew Bidwell

... is an Associate Professor in Wharton's Management Department. His research examines different aspects of how people are matched to jobs, including the balance between hiring and internal development, how talent flows between organizations, the ...

Matthias Wenzel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Maurizio Zollo

...is professor of Strategy and Sustainability and director of the Leonardo Centre on Business for Society at Imperial College Business School, where he was the first ...

Melissa Graebner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Publications Committee
  • Member of Publications Committee
...is a Professor of Business Administration at the University of Illinois and a co-editor of SEJ. Her research focuses on understanding social micro-processes in strategic contexts, particularly in the settings...

Michael Leiblein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Michelle Rogan

...is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. She previously was a faculty member at UNC Kenan-Flagler and prior to that, INSEAD...

Myriam Mariani

... is a professor of applied economics at Bocconi University, where she is also the director of the MSc EMIT (Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology). She earned a PhD from ...

Nicholas Argyres

... is Vernon W. and Marion K. Professor of Strategy at the Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis ...

Nicolai Foss

... is the Rodolfo Debenedetti Chaired Professor ("Ordinario") of Entrepreneurship at the Bocconi University, Milano. He was a professor at the Copenhagen Business School until 2016...

Olga Hawn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
...is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Faculty Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Sustainability Distinguished Fellow at the Kenan-Flagler Business School... ...is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Gies College of Business of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Academic Co-director of the Hoeft Technology and Management Program. Arkadiy received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management at...

Olga Petricevic

...is an Associate Professor holding a Joint Appointment in the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Area and Strategy & Global Management Area at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. She received her PhD degree in Strategic Management from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at...

Paul Mang - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Practitioner Strategy Committee
  • Member of the Research Committee

Pinar Ozcan

... is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. She specializes in strategy, entrepreneurship, and the emergence of new markets. She completed her Ph.D. at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) at the Stanford University Management Science and Engineering Department, and ...

Preet Aulakh

...is Professor of Strategy and the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at the Schulich School of Business, York University. His research on ...

Rajshree Agarwal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Publications Committee
  • Member of Publications Committee

Richard Bettis

Rich Bettis is the Ellison Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business of the University of North Carolina. He has won the SMJ Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper prize and been elected to the Fellows of SMS. He has served on the Academy of Management Board and on the Strategic Management Society Board, where he also served a 3-year term as President. He has been a Consulting Editor of the Academy of Management Review, and an Associate Editor of Management Science. In 1995 he became an SMJ Associate Editor and 2007-2015 served as SMJ Co-Editor.

Richard Whittington

... is Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School and New College, University of Oxford. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, the University of Toulouse...

Rocio Bonet

...is an associate professor in the area of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior at IE Business School, Madrid. She earned her PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research...

Rodolphe Durand

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Conference Committee
  • Member of the Ethics Committee
  • Member of the Practitioner Strategy Committee

Sabine Baumann

...is Professor for Business Administration in the College of Management, Information, Technology at Jade University in Germany. Before rejoining academia she worked for Bertelsmann, Germany's largest media...

Sea-Jin Chang

...is a Lim Kim San Chair Professor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore and also a Techno-SK Chair Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (joint appointment). He received...

Sergio Lazzarini

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Sharon Matusik

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Practitioner Strategy Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee

Stav Fainshmidt

...is an Associate Professor at Ivey Business School. His research focuses on institutional context and...

Susan Black

... is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada's leading independent applied research organization. Since 2018, she has led a successful transformation at The Conference Board of Canada and has focused its efforts on providing rigorous research insights to ...

Susan Christoffersen

... is the Dean at Rotman, and the William A. Downe BMO Chair, Professor of Finance. From 2015 to 2020, Professor Christoffersen served as the Vice-Dean, Undergraduate and Specialized programs. Her research focuses on...

Tomi Laamanen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Tunde Cserpes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee

Vibha Gaba

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD
... is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and The INSEAD Fellow in Memory of Erin Anderson. She is broadly interested in how organizations learn and how it impacts their ability to innovate and adapt especially in ...

Victor Cui

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor at the Asper School of Business
... is an Associate Professor at the Asper School of Business of the University of Manitoba. His research focuses on technology creation, protection, and acquisition within firms, in inter-firm competition and cooperation, and under various IPR protection regimes...

Yan Anthea Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Conference Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Membership Committee
  • President - Elect