Conference Committee
Conference Convenors
Dean, INSEAD

Dipak Jain
...is the Dean of INSEAD, the international business school based in Fontainebleau, France. Prior to his INSEAD appointment, Dipak Jain was Dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management from 2001-2009...
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Dean, Singapore Management University

Howard Thomas
...was appointed Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business in January of 2010. Prior to this appointment, he was the Dean of the Warwick Business School...
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Dean, Nanyang Business School

Gillian Yeo
...is the Interim Dean at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, she has held senior accounting and finance positions in multinational corporations (PriceWaterhouse and Texas Instruments)...
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Dean, National University of Singapore Business School

Bernard Yeung
...is the Dean and the Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor in Finance and Strategic Management at the National University of Singapore Business School. Before joining NUS in June 2008, he was the Abraham Krasnoff Professor...
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Program Co-Chairs

Russell Coff
...is the Wisconsin Naming Partners Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the role of knowledge-based assets in creating and sustaining...
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Andreas Raharso
... is the Director of Hay Group Global Research Centre for Strategy Execution based in Singapore. Andreas directs the centre’s global research agenda and manages all research activities, anticipating and managing ...
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Gabriel Szulanski
...is Professor of Strategy at INSEAD Singapore. His research focuses on the exploitation of knowledge assets, such as the transfer of best practices, and on the making of strategy. He is best known for his work on...
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Conference Theme Track Chairs
Track A - Process: Innovation Processes within Firms
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Track A - Process: Innovation Processes within Firms

Laura B. Cardinal
...is Professor of Strategic Management at the C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. Previously, she was a faculty member at Tulane University where she served as the Exxon Professor of Strategy...
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Track B - Place: How Location, Geography and Institutions Shape Innovatory Capabilities

Toru Yoshikawa
... is Associate Professor of Management at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He was previously a faculty member at McMaster University in Canada and Nihon University in Japan, and also a visiting professor...
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Track B - Place: How Location, Geography and Institutions Shape Innovatory Capabilities

Donald Hatfield
... is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Industrial Economics ...
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Track C - People: Assembling Resources and Capabilities
for Innovation in a Global Economy

Heli Wang
...is an Associate Professor in Strategic Management at Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University (SMU). Prior to joining SMU in January 2012, she was an associate professor at Hong...
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Track C - People: Assembling Resources and Capabilities
for Innovation in a Global Economy

Jasjit Singh
...is an Associate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. He regularly teaches topics related to Competitive Strategy, Strategic Innovation and Global Strategy in INSEAD's MBA, EMBA, Executive Education and PhD programmes. Jasjit’s research interests include Strategic Management...
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Program Committee Members

David Lepak
... is Professor of Human Resource Management and Department Chair of the HRM department in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University ...
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Ted Tschang
... is an Associate Professor of Management at the Singapore Management University's Lee Kong Chian School of Business. He holds a PhD in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in electrical engineering...
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Mary-Anne Williams
...holds a Research Chair at the University of Technology, Sydney and is Director of the Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory. She has a Masters of Laws and a PhD in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning...
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Advisory Board

Steven Floyd
... the Frank S. Kaulback Jr. Professor of Commerce at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. An active SMS member for over 20 years...
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Javier Gimeno
...is Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, where he holds the Aon Dirk Verbeek Chair in International Risk and Strategic Management. He received a PhD in strategic management from Purdue University and a Licenciate degree...
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Michael A. Hitt
...is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He has authored or co-authored many journal articles published in leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal...
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Doctoral Workshop Chairs

William Hesterly
... is the Dumke Family Presidential Chair in Management at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah where he also serves as Associate Dean for Faculty and Research. His most recent research focuses on ...
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James Robins
...is University Professor of Business Policy at Vienna University of Economics and Business. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Long Range Planning and is a member of the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and Global Strategy Journal. He is a former Associate...
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Faculty Workshop Chair

Gwendolyn Lee
... is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration, and the Hough Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, and M.S. and B.S. degrees...
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Paper Competition Chair

Lai-Si Tsui-Auch
...conducts research on the organization-environment relationship, covering topics of corporate governance reforms, entrepreneurship and business groups, as well as the development of trust and control within multinational corporations...
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