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HBS Strategy Research Conference October 24 – 25, 2008

Unit Strategy > Conferences & Seminars

Schedule

All sessions will be held in Hawes Hall 301

Friday, October 24
12.00-1.00 p.m.
LUNCH

HBS Faculty Club
South Terrace, Kresge Hall
1.00-1.30 p.m.
Leading Strategy: The Human Dimension

Cynthia A. Montgomery (Harvard Business School)
The Role of People in Strategy: Past and Present

1.30-3.00 p.m.
Social Networks

Chair: Mikołaj Jan Piskorski (Harvard Business School)

Pierre Azoulay, Nelson Repenning, and Ezra Zuckerman (all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Peter Roberts* (Emory University), Mukti Khaire (Harvard Business School), and Christopher Rider (Emory University)
Basking in Reflected Glory: Symbolic and Substantive Implications of Winemaker Mobility

Dean Karlan (Yale University), Markus Möbius* (Harvard University), Tanya Rosenblat (Iowa State University), and Adam Szeidl (University of California, Berkeley)
Trust and Social Collateral

Discussant: Olav Sorenson (University of Toronto)
3.00-3.15 p.m.
BREAK

Hawes Lounge
3.15-4.45 p.m.
Human Cognition and Strategic Opportunities, Part I

Chair: Giovanni Gavetti (Harvard Business School)

Ernest May (Harvard University)
Analogies at War

Sendhil Mullainathan*, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Andrei Shleifer (all from Harvard University)
Coarse Thinking and Persuasion

Steve Kahl (University of Chicago) The Dynamics of Categorization

Discussant: Daniel Levinthal (Wharton)
4.45-5.00 p.m.
BREAK

Hawes Lounge
5.00-6.00 p.m.
Human Cognition and Strategic Opportunities, Part II

Chair: Giovanni Gavetti (Harvard Business School)

A Practitioner Perspective:
J. Bruce Harreld
Senior Vice President for Strategy, IBM
6.30 p.m.
RECEPTION

7.00 p.m.

DINNER

HBS Faculty Club
Kresge Hall
Saturday, October 25
8.00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Hawes Lounge
8.45-10.15 a.m.
Managing Human Capital

Chair: Juan Alcacer (Harvard Business School)

A Practitioner Perspective:
Colin Gounden (Grail Research, Monitor)
Managing Knowledge Based Firms

Casey Ichniowski (Columbia University) and Kathryn Shaw* (Stanford University)
Insider Econometrics: A Roadmap for Estimating Empirical Models of Organizational Design and Performance

Discussant: Jan Svejnar (University of Michigan)
10.15-10.30 a.m.
BREAK

Hawes Lounge
10.30-11.15 a.m.
People and Institutions

Chair: Juan Alcacer (Harvard Business School)

John M. Mezias* (University of Miami) and Stephen J. Mezias (New York University)
Effects of Country-Level Governance Indicators on Foreign Subsidiary Staffing and Incentive Strategies

Discussant: Raymond Fisman (Columbia University)
11.15-11.30 a.m.
BREAK

Hawes Lounge
11.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m.
Organizational Capabilities: A New Perspective

Chair: Cynthia A. Montgomery (Harvard Business School)

Rebecca Henderson*, Robert Gibbons, Nelson P. Repenning, and John Sterman (all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
What do Managers do (to build competitive advantage)? The Development of Relational Contracts & the Origins of Organizational Capability

Discussant: Sidney Winter (Wharton)
12.30-1.30 p.m.
WORKING LUNCH

Hawes Lounge
1.30-3.00 p.m.
Putting People Back in Strategy

Chair: Cynthia A. Montgomery (Harvard Business School)

A Practitioner Perspective:
Peter Olson (Harvard Business School)
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Random House

David Collis (Harvard Business School)
Identifying Research and Pedagogical Priorities: Reports from the Lunch Breakout Groups and Brainstorming

*Presenting Author