Assistant Professor Stacey Fitzsimmons

February 27th

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Professor Gerard Hodgkinson

March 16th

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Professor Rodolphe Durand

April 27th

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Professor Nicolaj Siggelkow

June 13th

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Brown Bag seminar 12:00-13:00
Room K2.75

The PhD project of Søren aims to provide “Effective Corporate Strategies in Vertically integrated Companies” When companies expand, one of the first ways has been to integrate part of the supply chain or to integrate part of the distribution channel. This is known as vertical integration (VI). Theory provides conflicting views of when VI is viable and actually delivers shareholder value. Furthermore theory suggests that VI can increase corporate control and hence deliver shareholder value in the form of increased profits or reduced volatility of its profits. But, under market uncertainty operational and strategic risks are transferred directly from its customers to the company.

If VI also leads to reduced corporate flexibility and reaction to markets changes this should destroy shareholder value. Despite these constrains many companies still choose to expand its activities beyond its original competencies and founding ideas and vision. 

This essential raises the question of how to create strategies for Vertical Integration which also takes into account the dynamics of today’s globalized world where changes in a complex environment occurs with higher frequency and impact. The theoretical foundation of the project will be corporate strategy, strategic risk management, corporate financing and from a management perspective - organizational architecture, business unit management, control and incentives.

 

Søren Bering has had several leadership roles within the private sector. Today he is ”Head of Commercial Services” at MAN Truck and Bus Center Scandinavia. He has previously worked as Sales Director at MAN Truck and Bus in Denmark, and as Sales and Marketing Director at DHL Express A/S Denmark. Søren has a FT MBA from Copenhagen Business School

Brown Bag seminar 12:00-13:00
Room K2.75

The PhD project of Jose will contribute to international strategy and decision-making research by developing a scenario-based framework for forward-looking, adaptive strategic decision-making under high uncertainty. Whereas previous research has fallen short of developing decision-making models that simultaneously take into account changes in basic trends and key uncertainties traversing multiple levels – and their potential interactions, this project will improve our scientific understanding of the dynamics behind complex R&D investment decisions under high levels of uncertainty. Furthermore, the simultaneous modeling of three levels of factors (macro-industry-organizational) into strategic decision-scenarios is novel. The project will combine theories from finance, organizational behavior, leadership, economics and strategy. Its multi-disciplinary nature will further our knowledge of how integration of diverse factors across multiple levels can help develop new theories and practices in relation to international strategic decision-making.

Duration: August 2011 - July 2014

Funding: Novozymes and the Danish Ministry of Research, Technology and Development

Research seminar 14:00 - 15:30
Room TBA 

Timothy B. Folta is the Brock Family Chair of Strategic Management at Purdue University. His research and teaching efforts examine both entrepreneurship and the strategic management of interactions across functional and product boundaries within a firm. His work analyzes, first, how uncertainty constrains behavior, and second, how managers and entrepreneurs use organizational design and scope decisions to cope with uncertainty.

His scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Business Venturing, Management Science, and Strategic Management Journal.

Research seminar 14:00 - 15:30
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Rodolphe Durand graduated from HEC Paris (M.Sc and Ph.D.) and La Sorbonne (MPhil). He is the GDF-Suez professor of Strategy at HEC Paris where he chairs the Strategy department, and is in charge of the MBA and Ph.D. specialization.

His primary research interests concern the social and institutional sources of competitive advantage and organizational performance, in particular in settings where conformity pressures are strong.

His works have been published in journals including American Journal of Sociology, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal. Rodolphe received national and international awards including the "R. Scott Award" (American Sociological Association, 2005), the "HEC Foundation Best paper of the year (2006 and 2009), and the "Euram/Imagination Lab award for innovative scholarship" (2010). He initiated the "Society and Organizations" research center at HEC (www.societyandorganizations.org). Rodolphe is also a prolific author of books, including Guide du Management Stratégique (Dunod, 2003), Organizational Evolution and Strategic Management (Sage, 2006), Strategor (co-editor, Dunod, 2009) and L'Organisation Pirate (Bord de l'Eau, 2010, coauthored with JP Vergne).

Research seminar 14:00 - 15:30
Room TBA

Melissa Schilling is a professor of management and organizations at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Schilling is widely recognized as an expert on innovation and strategy in high technology industries. Her textbook, Strategic Management of Technological Innovation, is the number one innovation strategy text in the world, and is available in seven languages.

Her research in innovation and strategy has appeared in the leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy andResearch Policy. She also sits on the editorial review boards of Organization Science and Strategic Organization.

Research seminar 14:00 - 15:30
Room TBA

Nicolaj Siggelkow is the David M. Knott Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is the Department Chair of Wharton’s Management Department and a Co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at Wharton. He studied Economics at Stanford University and earned an M.A. in Economics from Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School.

His research has been published in the leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Industrial Economics, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization. In 2008, he received the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier. Nicolaj is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Academy of Management Perspectives.