This virtual event offer perspectives from three strategy scholars on how teaching and research interact. You'll hear examples of how teaching sparked a research idea or how research is used in teaching from Rahul Kapoor (Wharton), Olga Hawn (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Jeffrey York (Colorado).

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State-owned firms, regulators, sovereign wealth funds and a range of state agencies have surged in importance over the last decade and strategy research is increasingly tackling this critical and challenging topic.

Five leading scholars will be discussing the how strategy researchers can engage with the many exciting issues that state activity raises around the world:

Aline Gatignon (Wharton): The firm, the State, and Civil Society: a Bermuda Triangle for Nonmarket Strategy?

Anna Grosman (Loughborough U): Strategies for Firm Success in the Face of Government Influence

Pasha Mahmood (NUS Singapore): Strategies for Engaging with Regulators in Nascent Markets

Mike Peng (UT Dallas): Corporate diplomacy and exit strategies

Anthea Zhang (Rice): Asymmetric imitation between state-owned firms and non-state-owned firms in their FDI location choices

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This virtual research symposium will feature cutting-edge research from the field of corporate strategy.

Four scholars, whose research focuses on corporate strategy, will present their latest research paper, and two discussants will share their feedback on the papers, followed by feedback from the audience.

The four scholars presenting their work in this virtual symposium are:

Carolyn Fu, incoming Assistant Professor of Strategy, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Philipp Meyer-Doyle, Associate Professor of Strategy, INSEAD Asia Campus

Paul Nary, Assistant Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Susan Perkins, Visiting Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Stern School of Business, New York University

The two distinguished discussants are:

Juan Alcacer, James J. Hill Chaired Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Aseem Kaul, Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, The Mosaic Company – Kim Prokopanko Chair for Corporate Responsibility, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

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Join two of our most influential scholars for a wide-ranging conversation about the public policy contributions of strategic management. Among other topics, the panelists will discuss:

- The distinctive contribution of strategic management to public policy;

- Opportunities to better unpack policy contributions in strategic management research; and

- How strategic management scholars can engage more actively in public policy dialogues.

Featured Panelists

David J. Teece, Thomas W. Tusher Professor at the Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

David J. Teece pioneered the dynamic capabilities perspective, co-founded the Berkeley Research Group, and has been ranked as the world's most-cited scholar in the combined field of business and management. (Google Scholar profile.) He has over thirty years of experience as an active consultant performing economic, business, and financial consulting services to businesses and governments around the world. He has testified in both federal and state court, before Congress, and before the Federal Trade Commission, as well as in several international jurisdictions.

Annabelle Gawer, Chaired Professor in Digital Economy; Director, Surrey Centre of Digital Economy (CoDE), University of Surrey.

Annabelle Gawer is a leading scholar of platforms and ecosystems. (Google Scholar profile.) She is an independent Digital Expert for the UK Competition and Markets Authority has advised the European Commission on the regulation of online platforms as an Expert Member of the European Commission's Observatory of the Online Platform Economy (2018-2021). She has also advised the UK Parliament House of Lords, the UK Government, and the OECD.

Moderated by Tadhg Ryan-Charleton, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

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Business School leaders, students and funders increasingly demand research that is clearly relevant to practice and policy. Relevance matters to most of us as well, so long as we can combine it with appropriate rigour.

This virtual symposium will bring together four leading scholars who have consistently pulled off this double challenge of rigour and relevance, together with a discerning and engaged representative of practice:

Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School)

Rudi Durand (HEC Paris)

Paula Jarzabkowski (University of Queensland)

Joe Mahoney (University of Illinois)

Martin Reeves (Henderson Institute, Boston Consulting Group)

Chair: Richard Whittington (University of Oxford).

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This virtual research symposium will feature cutting-edge research from the field of strategic human capital. Four scholars, whose research focuses on strategic human capital, will present their latest research paper, and two discussants will share their feedback on the papers, followed by feedback from the audience.

The 3 scholars presenting their work in this virtual symposium are: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School Shinjae Won, Assistant professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign Federica De Stefano, Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources, HEC Paris

The two distinguished discussants are: Vanessa Burbano, Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School Seth Carnahan, Associate Professor of Strategy, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

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The STR Division invites you to join the inaugural edition of the Virtual Scholar-Practitioner Seminar entitled "Insight to Impact: Synergizing Practice and Research in Strategic Management."

Sourobh Ghosh (Audible), Jorge Fuentes (Carey) and Andrea Floyd (Maximus) will share insights about bridging theory with practice, overcoming implementation challenges, and exploring future directions in the integration of cutting-edge research and practical strategies. We will spend 1 hour hearing from the panelists including a Q&A session.

The STR Virtual Scholar-Practitioner Seminar series is part of #STRongerTogether initiatives where we invite practitioners with PhDs in Strategic Management to join a themed reflection on integrating research with practice.

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New forms of organizing, new societal pressures and new technologies are all creating new modes of strategizing.

This STR Symposium gathers leading scholars to discuss research issues and opportunities associated with the new modes of strategizing, as follows:

Callen Anthony (Stern, NYU): From Strategy Formation to Implementation: Implications for Innovation

Fleur Deken (VU, Netherlands): Collaborative and Interorganizational Strategizing

Julia Hautz (University of Innsbruck): Open Strategizing: taking stock and moving forward

Siobhan O'Mahoney (Boston University): Rethinking how we Study Strategy in the Field

Henk Volberda (University of Amsterdam): Strategizing for Economic and Social Value: Corporate Purpose Revisited

Richard Whittington (University of Oxford): Chair

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