Strategy Science Conference

Strategy Science Conference

April 28-29, 2021
We are pleased to announce the fourth annual Strategy Science Conference. The conference will be online and will be hosted by Harvard Business School and co-sponsored by the journal Strategy Science. Strategy Science, an INFORMS journal, is establishing itself as an important voice in the strategy field, providing an outlet for innovative strategy research tackling central questions in the field. In that spirit, the conference will provide an opportunity for a limited number of strategy researchers to share their work with in-depth discussions both in the context of the formal paper presentations and panel discussions.
Conference Program
Location:
All sessions will be held on Zoom

Day 1: Wednesday, April 28

8:30AM Sessions (EDT)

8:30AM-10:00AM EDT
STRATEGY AND INNOVATION
Discussant: Gary Pisano (HBS)
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8:30AM-10:00AM EDT
ENTRANTS, INCUMBENTS, AND COMPETITION
Discussant: Bruno Cassiman (IESE)
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10:30AM Sessions (EDT)

10:30AM–12:15PM EDT
PREDICTION, CAUSATION, AND STRATEGY
Discussant: Rob Seamans (NYU)
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Meeting ID: 942 6899 1775
Passcode: not required

10:30AM-12:00PM EDT
ORGANIZATIONAL FOCUS
Discussant: Toby Stuart (Berkeley)
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Meeting ID: 988 2281 2577
Passcode: not required

12:30PM Sessions (EDT)

12:30PM–2:00PM EDT
NON-MARKET STRATEGY AND VALUE CREATION
Discussant: Felix Oberholzer-Gee (HBS)
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Meeting ID: 980 7005 2581
Password: 929761

12:30PM-1:45PM EDT
COLLABORATION AND COMPETITION
Discussant: Violina Rindova (USC)
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Meeting ID: 923 9835 1185
Passcode: 904743

  • Francisco Morales (Universidad Diego Portales), Exequiel Hernandez, Seth Carnahan
    Consistently Mediocre: Modular Collaboration and Variance in Organizational Performance
  • Elena Novelli (City, University of London), Giada Di Stefano, Martin Hetu
    Burying the Hatchet? Collaboration, Competition, and the Performance Effects of Diversity
  • Tunde Cserpes (Aarhus University), Balazs Vedres
    Network Tension and Innovation in Teams: Deep Success in Jazz

2:30PM Sessions (EDT)

2:30PM–4:00PM EDT
PLATFORMS AND DEMAND
Discussant: Feng Zhu (HBS)
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Meeting ID: 919 4486 5968
Password: 626330

2:30PM–4:00PM EDT
TEACHING SHOWCASE: New approaches to entrepreneurial and innovation strategy
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Meeting ID: 922 4268 8895
Passcode: 822528

4:30PM Sessions (EDT)

4:30PM–6:00PM EDT
SCALING NEW VENTURES
Discussant: Mary Tripsas (UCSB)
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Meeting ID: 917 2381 7949
Passcode: 495708

4:30PM–6:15PM EDT
DIVERSITY AND STRATEGY
Discussant: Rem Koning (HBS)
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Meeting ID: 967 7467 0023
Password: 980357

Day 2: Thursday, April 29

8:30AM Sessions (EDT)

8:30AM-9:45AM EDT
WHEN ARE FIRMS SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE?
Discussant: Caroline Flammer (BU)
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Meeting ID: 920 4160 3977
Password: 883645

8:30AM-10:00AM EDT
CORPORATE STRATEGY AND SCOPE
Discussant: Todd Zenger (Utah)
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Meeting ID: 924 3868 4879
Passcode: 014706

10:30AM Sessions (EDT)

10:30AM–12:00PM EDT
TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS
Discussant: Ryan Raffaelli (HBS)
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Meeting ID: 977 6815 0172
Password: 933229

10:30AM–12:00PM EDT
PLATFORMS AND ECOSYSTEMS
Discussant: Michael Jacobides (LBS)
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Meeting ID: 953 1321 1647
Passcode: 824187

12:30PM Session (EDT)

12:30PM–1:40PM EDT
CONVERSATIONS WITH STRATEGY SCIENCE EDITORS: Pushing the Boundaries of the Strategy Field
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Meeting ID: 959 5679 3775
Password: 626204

This session will begin with some introductory remarks by Dan Levinthal, Editor-in-Chief of Strategy Science. Participants will then be divided into breakout rooms. In the breakout rooms Strategy Science editors will initiate conversations with the audience about the frontiers of the field of strategy and how Strategy Science could play a role in pushing the boundaries of the field in fruitful directions. Finally, the groups will reconvene in the main session room where the editors will report what they learned in their breakout room conversations.

1:40PM-1:55PM EDT
INFORMS Strategy Science Section Business Meeting
(all INFORMS Strategy Science Section members welcome)
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Meeting ID: 959 5679 3775
Password: 626204

2:00PM Sessions (EDT)

2:00PM–3:30PM EDT
TEACHING SHOWCASE: Teaching Strategy
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Meeting ID: 977 4330 0973
Password: 182672

2:00PM–3:30PM EDT
KNOWLEDGE ACROSS FIRMS
Discussant: Bruce Kogut (Columbia University)
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Meeting ID: 997 4367 0795
Passcode: 409231

4:00PM Sessions (EDT)

4:00PM-5:15PM EDT
STRATEGY AND HISTORY
Discussant: Tarun Khanna (HBS)
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Meeting ID: 914 7105 1075
Passcode: 115912

4:00PM-5:30PM EDT
STRATEGY ACROSS BORDERS
Discussant: Joanne Oxley (Toronto)
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Meeting ID: 938 9887 6295
Password: 844107

  • Annamaria Conti (University of Lausanne), Jorge Guzman, Ron Rabi
    Information Frictions in the Market for Startup Acquisitions
  • Pedro Makhoul (UCLA), João Guedes-Neto, Aldo Musacchio
    The Cost of Being Foreign: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Experiment in the US
  • Nataliya Wright (HBS), Rembrand Koning, Tarun Khanna
    Judging Foreign Startups
  • Srividya Jandhyala (ESSEC Business School), Arnab Choudhury, Anand Nandkumar
    Economic nationalism and the home court advantage

Contact Information

strategyscience@hbs.edu