Elisa received her Ph.D. in management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and also holds an M.Sc. in management from The Wharton School. From the University Carlos III of Madrid in Spain, she holds an M.Sc. in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods, two B.Sc. degrees in Business Administration and in Economics, as well as a Law degree. Elisa teaches International Entrepreneurship at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Before joining the University of South Carolina, she was on the faculty at Georgia State University where she taught Global Competitive Strategy in the MBA program.
Michaël Bikard is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. His research seeks to identify some of the obstacles holding back the emergence and spread of new ideas. To do so, he examines the work of scientists and inventors striving to innovate on the frontiers of science.
His work has been published in leading management journals including the Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. Before joining INSEAD, he was on the faculty of the London Business School. He completed his PhD at MIT Sloan in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management group.
Vanessa Burbano is an Assistant Professor of Management in the strategy area at Columbia Business School. She was named to Poets and Quants' 2019 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.
Burbano researches the strategic implications of socially responsible and irresponsible firm practices; in particular, how they influence employee behavior. Her research has been recognized with awards including those from the Strategic Management Society, the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, the Impact for Investment Research Prize, the Responsible Research in Management Award, the Berkeley Sustainable Business and Investment Forum, the International Association of Business & Society, and the Industry Studies Association. Her work has been published in Organization Science, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, California Management Review, and Organization & Environment, and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, The Financial Times, and the New York Times.
She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson School of Management and an M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to academia, she worked as an Associate at Goldman Sachs and as a Strategy Consultant at Monitor Group.
Donal Crilly is Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. Primarily interested in behavioral strategy, he builds on managerial cognition and language to study non-market strategy and intertemporal choice. In his research, he uses textual analysis, configurational analysis, and experiments. Donal is Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and serves on the boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Organization and the Journal of International Business Studies. Holding a PhD from INSEAD (strategy) and a second PhD from University College London (comparative linguistics), he strongly supports interdisciplinary approaches to understanding strategy.
Sam Garg is Liwei Huang Associate Professor of Business (Strategy & Entrepreneurship) at HKUST Business School in Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD from Stanford University. His research examines venture governance, in particular board dynamics in new ventures and newly public-listed firms. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He is also a coauthor of a research-based practitioner book, which was on the global shortlist for the best management book of the year.
He has been active in serving the profession and would like to better represent Asia and increase STR activities there. He currently serves as an elected Rep-at-large of the Entrepreneurship & Strategy Interest Group at SMS, and a member of the Research Committee of the OMT Division at AOM; he has also been a Track Chair for the Strategy Division. He regularly contributes as speaker and/or mentor in the doctoral and junior faculty consortia at AOM and SMS, and also in important conferences in Asia (e.g. IACMR) and Europe (e.g. EURAM). He is an incoming Associate Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and also serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, and leading field journals such as the Corporate Governance: An International Review. Prior to PhD, Sam co-founded an online payments venture in Singapore and also worked as a research associate at INSEAD.
Marco S. Giarratana is Professor of Strategy at IE University/IE Business School, Madrid, Spain. He was previously associate professor at the University Carlos III (Madrid), and full professor at the Bocconi University (Milan). His main research interests focus on corporate diversification, product strategies, patents and trademarks, and strategic CSR. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Chair of Strategy Department at IE University. Since 2020, he is visiting professor at the School of Management at the University of Bath. He is the actual Vice-rector of Research at IE University.
R. Michael Holmes Jr. (PhD, Texas A&M University) is the Jim Moran Associate Professor of Strategic Management and the Management Doctoral Program Coordinator at Florida State University. He also has a visiting appointment at the University of Johannesburg. Michael's research focuses on the microfoundations of strategic management and on the emergence and implications of institutions. It has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal, among other outlets. His research on microfoundations received the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award (which is given annually for the best paper in industrial organization psychology), and his research on institutions has received an Emerald Citations in Excellence Award (which recognizes highly cited articles). His research also has been abstracted in numerous media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal.
Michael is passionate about the STR Division and about serving underrepresented groups and regions. He is completing an 11-year term as Secretary for the STR Division. In addition, Michael teaches regularly in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans Program in the U.S., and he has spoken at seminars on research, teaching, and small business management in Egypt, Nigeria, and Uganda. Michael hopes to extend his service to STR and to continue to promote STR's community and global outreach in a new capacity as a member of the Executive Committee.
Kenneth G. Huang is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management & Department of Strategy and Policy of NUS Business School. Over his career, he has benefited much from the professional and academic activities of the STR Division of AOM, and is passionate to serve and contribute back to STR. Kenneth has substantial experience leading and chairing many academic and professional committees and programs at the school and university levels. He is appointed Academic Director of MSc. in Management of Technology Program at NUS. He has organized many AOM and STR consortiums and PDWs including STR Junior Faculty Teaching Consortium (2018-19) and STR JFC (2020-21), and is familiar with the working of STR. Kenneth's research and teaching focus on innovation and technology strategy and management, strategy in emerging markets, entrepreneurial and intellectual property strategy, which align well with STR. He serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Strategic Management Journal and Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), and is an incoming Senior Editor of Management and Organization Review. His research has been published in leading journals including Science, AMJ, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Research Policy, JIBS, PNAS and Nature Biotechnology. Before joining NUS, Kenneth was an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Singapore Management University School of Business and taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management. He earned his Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from MIT.
Within the STR division, Mahka is a proud member. She has previously served as a STR research committee member and is currently a co-chair of the junior faculty consortium. She is very excited and grateful about the inclusive virtual community-building activities that the division has been undertaking during the pandemic.
Tomasz Obloj (PhD INSEAD) is an Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. His research interests span areas of competitive strategy, organizational design, behavioral strategy, and equity in organizations. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Strategic Management Journal, Consulting Editor at Strategy Science and he's an outgoing Chair of the Competitive Strategy interest group of SMS. His work has been published, among others, in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. Tomasz was a finalist of the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Competition and won the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award. In 2017 he was selected by Poets & Quants as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors.
Tony Tong is Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. Currently he serves as Chair of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Operations Department. His research examines how firms structure external relationships and internal organization in contexts of interfirm relationships, multinational investments, patents and IPRs, and digital platforms. He has published in AMJ, JEBO, JEMS, JIBS, JOM, OS, RP, SMJ, SO, and SS, among others. He was a Winner of the SMS Best Paper Prize, and a PI of two NSF awards. He is a cofounder of the Chinese Patent Data Project.
Tony teaches Strategic Management, Global Strategy, Corporate Strategy, and Technology & Innovation Management in undergraduate, MBA, Executive, and Ph.D. programs. His teaching has received awards and recognitions from Colorado, Purdue, Ohio State, and CKGSB. He has published several popular case studies of high-tech companies in HBSP. His work on innovation and digitization also appears in practitioner outlets including HBR and CMR.
Tony has served on the editorial boards of AMJ, GSJ, JIBS, JOM, SEJ, SMJ, and SO, and was a coeditor of the Advances in Strategic Management – Real Options Theory. His service to the STR Division includes serving on the Research Committee, organizing Annual Patent PDWs, mentoring junior faculty and doctoral students in various consortia and workshops. In addition, he is currently Program Chair for the SMS's Corporate Strategy Interest Group.
Ralf Wilden is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation and Director Higher Degree Research at the Macquarie Business School. As longest serving member of STR's Global Scholars (upon request by the EC to extend his term), he served the division as its representative between 2016 and 2020. In this role, Ralf took on the leadership for the Global Scholars' PDW organization; coordinated the STR Global Reps; supported the EC to design strategies to increase the division's international outreach; and co-organized a paper development workshop in Sydney to bring the local STR community together. He now serves as one of the Twitter Managers for STR.
His contributions to the area of dynamic capabilities have focused on answering the question of how organizations can benefit from resource integration to improve performance. He incorporates dynamic capability thinking with (open) innovation and co-creation to investigate managerially relevant problems, such as business models, and the impact of market shaping and reconfiguring on innovative behavior. He is also increasingly interested in strategic decision making, with an emphasis how managers make decisions under uncertainty. He has received industry funding in excess of $300,000.
Ralf worked in the automotive (BMW Group), telecommunications (o2 Telefónica) and consulting industries. Ralf's work has been recognized by several international and national associations, invitations to speak at industry conferences, and he authored journal publications in outlets such as Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Strategic Organization.
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Paolo Aversa
Associate Professor of Strategy
Cass Business School, City, University of London
STR Communications Director and Officer
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