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HBS Strategy Research Conference October 13 – 14, 2006

Schedule

Registration/Check-in for the conference will begin at 11:00 a.m. in Hawes Hall, 2nd floor

All sessions will take place in Hawes Hall 201

Friday, October 13
12:00 p.m.
Lunch

Faculty Club, Kresge Hall South Terrace

1:15-2:45 p.m.
Session 1: Internal Innovation

David Obstfeld (University of California, Irvine)
Creative Projects and Combinatorial Search: Toward a Less-Routine Theory of Organizing

Gustavo Manso (MIT)
Motivating Innovation

Joshua Lerner (HBS) and Julie Wulf (Wharton)
Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

Discussant: Nicolaj Siggelkow (Wharton)
Discussant: Thomas Hellmann (University of British Columbia)

3:00-4:15 p.m.
Session 2: Panel on Corporate Innovation

Panelist: Tim Bresnahan (Stanford), Shane Greenstein (Kellogg), and Rebecca Henderson (MIT)
Making Waves: The Interplay between Market Incentives and Organizational Capabilities in the Evolution of Industries

Panelist: Steven Klepper (Carnegie Mellon)

Intra-industry Spinoffs

Panelist: Marco Iansiti (HBS)
Intellectual Property, Architecture, and the Management of Technological Transitions: Evidence from Microsoft Corporation (with Alan MacCormack) and The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability (with Roy Levien)

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Session 3: Innovation in Practice

Speaker: Marc Chapman, head of IBM's Global Strategy and Change Services

6:15 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Reception @6:15
Dinner @ 7:00 p.m.

Sandrine's Bistro
8 Holyoke Center
Cambridge, MA 02138

Saturday, October 14
8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

Hawes Lounge

8:30-10:00 a.m.
Session 4: Adoption of Innovations

Felix Oberholzer-Gee (HBS) and Victor Calanog (Wharton)
The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions, and the Diffusion of New Products

Carmen Weigelt (Rice) and MB Sarkar (University of Central Florida)
Learning from Supply-Side Agents: The Impact of Technology Solution Providers' Experiential Diversity on Clients' Innovation Adoption

Luís M B Cabral (NYU) and Cristian Dezsö (NYU)
Technology Adoption with Multiple Alternative Designs and the Option to Wait

Discussant: Michael Lenox (Duke)

Discussant: Peter Zemsky (INSEAD)

10:15-11:15 a.m.
Session 5: External Sourcing

Aija Leiponen (Cornell) and Constance E. Helfat (Dartmouth)
Geographic Location and Decentralization of Innovation Activity

Rafael A. Corredoira (Wharton) and Lori Rosenkopf (Wharton)
Learning from Those Who Left: The Reverse Transfer of Knowledge through Mobility Ties

Discussant: Bruno Cassiman (IESE)

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Session 6: Corporate Innovation and Broader Trends

Benjamin F. Jones (Kellogg and NBER)
Age and Great Invention

Amar Bhide (Columbia)
Venturesome Consumption, Innovation, and Globalization

Michael Cusumano (MIT), Steve Kahl (MIT), and Fernando F. Suarez (Boston University)
Product, Process, and Service: A New Industry Lifecycle Model

12:30 p.m.
Lunch

Hawes Lounge

1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 7: Innovation in Systems Industries

Kevin Boudreau (HEC-Paris)
Does Opening a Platform Generate More Innovation? An Empirical Study

Sebastian K. Fixson (MIT) and Jin-Kyu Park (University of Michigan)
The Power of Product Architecture Innovation: Modularity, Integrality, and Competition

Carl Shapiro (University of California, Berkeley)
Injunctions, Holdup, and Patent Royalties and
Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking (with Mark A. Lemley)

Discussant: Carliss Y. Baldwin (HBS)

Discussant: Dennis A. Yao (HBS)