Thursday, December 4 — Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 8th Floor
2:30 p.m.–2:50 p.m. — Registration
2:50 p.m.–3:00 p.m. — Welcome from Organizers
3:00 p.m.–4:45 p.m. — Session 1: Firm Boundaries and Scope
Lasting Impact? Business Leaders’ Board Service and the Performance of Nonprofit Organizations(Dan Elfenbein, Ming Zhu Wang)
Capabilities and Boundaries of Transaction-Enabling Organizations: Double Coincidence, Separation of Powers, and the Quarantine Paradox (Richard Makadok, Anparasan Mahalingam)
Mitigating Disruption: Hiring for Social Skills and Post-Acquisition Performance (Piyush Gulati)
Autonomy Advantage: A Dramatic Example (Evan Rawley, Yujin Kim, Yongwook Paik)
Discussant: Arkadiy Sakhartov
4:45 p.m.–5:00 p.m. — Break
5:00 p.m.–6:15 p.m.— Keynote Address
Gautam Gupta, Corporate Strategy & Innovation, Pfizer
6:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. — Dinner
The Coop
20 S. 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Friday, December 5 — Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room 245
8:00 a.m.–8:25 a.m. — Breakfast
8:25 a.m.–8:30a.m. — Kickoff
8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. — Session 2: Innovation and Technology
Does Understanding AI Pay? (Pablo Hernandez-Lagos)
Why the Rush? Understanding the Timing of PCT National Entry from a Real Options Perspective (Minyuan Zhao, Yuxuan Zhao)
A Grammar for Strategy: The Systems-Based View and the Search for Value with an application to Early Aviation (Brent Goldfarb, David Kirsch)
Markets for Trade Secrets (Colleen Cunningham, Aldona Kapacinskaite, Rohin Vrajesh)
Technology Transitions in the Presence of Uncertainty: The Case of Green Tech (Michael Lenox, Hart Posen, Michael Leiblein, John Chen)
Discussant: TBD
10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m. — Break
10:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m. — Session 3: Research in a Corporate Context
The Rise of Absorptive Research in Corporate America: 1945-1980 (Jungkyu Suh, Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Hansen Zhang)
Has Corporate Science Really Declined? (Anne Marie Knott)
The Private Value of Innovating for the Government (Larisa Cioaca, Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Elia Ferracuti)
Discussant: Sharique Hasan
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. — Lunch & PhD Poster Session
1:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m. — Session 4: Platforms
How Platform Owner Entry Affects Open Source Contribution? Evidence from GitHub Developers (Yuping Li)
A Platform Rating System and Vulnerable Workers: Evidence from Field Experiments in Singapore (Vanessa Burbano, Wesley Koo, Jiao Luo)
Beyond Spot Markets: How Thick Sociality in Online Labor Markets is Reshaping Firm Boundaries (Christoph Riedl, Jonathan Jensen, Zachary Fulker, Oliver Alexy)
Discussant: TBD
2:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m. — Break
2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. — Session 5: Ownership Structure
A Value Capture Theory of Competition with Nonprofits (Anparasan Mahalingam, Rong Li, Todd Zenger)
Target Firms’ Choice between Strategic and Financial Acquirors: The Role of Founders and their Families (Belen Villalonga, Lucia Pierini, Saverio Bozzolan)
Corporate Diversification and Consumer Boycotts (Young Hou, Richard Li, Chris Poliquin)
What if Preqin is Just a Prequel (David Collis)
4:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m. — Break
4:15 p.m.–5:15 p.m. — Panel-Led Discussion: “Aside from AI, what else is going on in corporate strategy?”
Mark Desjardine, Jeff Reuer, Melissa Graebner, Maggie Zhou
5:15 p.m.–5:20 p.m. — Closing Remarks
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