| Assistant Program Chair-Elect |
| | Rajshree Agarwal (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) is the John Georges Professor of Technology Management and Strategy at the University of Illinois. The University bestowed her with the "University Scholar" designation in 2009, the highest honor given to its faculty in recognition of overall excellence. Rajshree has been active in the BPS Division, having served on the Research Committee and Executive Committee, and has consistently participated as a faculty mentor in the Dissertation Consortium, Doctoral Consortium, and New Faculty Consortium. Rajshree has also helped past BPS Program Chairs in creating sessions within the themes/tracks related to new venture and technology strategies. Her related service includes serving on the Research Committee of the TIM Division, and a 4-year officer term for the Entrepreneurship and Strategy interest group in the Strategic Management Society. Rajshree's research interests focus on the implications of entrepreneurship and innovation for industry and firm evolution. She is an associate editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and the editor of the SSRN Entrepreneurship and Economics Journal. Rajshree also serves on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization. She has received research grants from the Kauffman Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Marketing Science Institute and the US Department of Agriculture. |
| Executive Committee-Elect |
| | Tunji Adegbesan (Ph.D., IESE) is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation at the Lagos Business School in Nigeria. His research explores the factor market dynamics antecedent to differential firm performance, and seeks to contribute to the theoretical underpinnings of resource-based theory. His work has received recognition including the 2008 best BPS paper based on a recent dissertation. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Journal, in addition to several papers under review at other prominent outlets. Tunji has been active in the BPS division since 2004, and he is a member of the BPS Research Committee, in addition to serving as the BPS Global Representative for Africa. He has participated in doctoral and junior faculty consortia at BPS, he has co-organized a PDW on Strategic Factor Markets, and he has also been a regular reviewer, presenter, discussant, and session chair for both BPS and TIM divisions of the Academy. He is a past recipient of the TIM Best Reviewer award, as well as a reviewer for Management Science. At the Lagos Business School, Tunji teaches Strategic Management in MBA, Executive MBA, and in-company programs. Prior to academia, he co-founded a successful technology startup, and currently dedicates some of his time to incubating a second one. |
| | Bruno Cassiman (Ph.D., Northwestern U) is Professor of Strategy at the Strategic Management Department of IESE Business School in Barcelona and the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the K.U. Leuven in Belgium. His research interests have centered on the economics of strategy and innovation with a particular focus on the connections between science and industry in the innovation process. His work has been published in several of the leading Economics and Management journals including The American Economic Review, Management Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, Strategic Organization, The European Economic Review, The International Journal of Industrial Organization, and, Research Policy. Furthermore, he is the department editor of the Business Strategy department at Management Science and member of the editorial board of Strategic Organization, European Management Review and the Review of Economics and Business. Formerly, he was co-editor of the Spanish Economic Review, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of the European Economic Association and the Journal of Industrial Economics. He is a regular contributor to the Academy of Management Meetings and has served on the BPS Research Committee. |
| | Xavier Castañer (Ph.D., U. of Minnesota) is a native of Barcelona (Spain). He holds a PhD from the U. of Minnesota (US, 2002) and is currently an Assistant Professor at the U. of Lausanne (Switzerland). Xavier has held faculty positions at ESADE and HEC Paris, has published in Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal, among other journals, and previously served as the BPS rep for France (2002-2005), and as elected rep at large of the SMS Corporate Strategy & Governance IG (2006-2008). He is currently a member of the BPS Research Committee. Since 1998, Xavier has also been active in the BPS division by reviewing, presenting and discussing papers, as well as organizing and chairing PDW and symposia on different corporate strategy, alliances and acquisition topics across different divisions. He was a finalist for the BPS Best Dissertation Award in 2003, and has received a BPS outstanding reviewer award three consecutive times. He reviews for many journals, including ASQ, EMR, JMS, SMJ, and Organization Science, and currently sits on the Editorial Review Board for Organization Science. His research and teaching revolves around corporate governance, strategy and development, investigating the determinants and consequences of corporate scope as well as of the choice of development modes, and the success factors of acquisitions. He is also interested in organizational integration and innovation. |
| | Sarah Kaplan (Ph.D., MIT-Sloan) is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto. Her research is on cognitive framing, technology evolution, organizational discontinuities and strategy making inside organizations. Sarah currently serves on the BPS research committee, and in 2005 received the Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award from the BPS Division. She has been a faculty member in several PDW's for doctoral students, including the "Managing Your Dissertation Workshop" and the BPS Doctoral Consortium. She is on the editorial review boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science and Organization Studies and has published in both organizational and strategy journals. Prior to her academic career, she worked at McKinsey & Company for nearly a decade. She received a BA in Political Science from UCLA, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a PhD from MIT's Sloan School of Management. Her primary interest in serving the BPS division would be to continue to reinforce diversity in thinking, methods and theoretical approaches as well as in the division's membership. |
| | Samina Karim (Ph.D., U of Michigan) is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Boston University's School of Management. Samina's research focuses on structural reorganization, acquisitions and post-acquisition integration, and reconfiguration of resources and activities. Her research has been published in Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Long Range Planning, and several book chapters. Her dissertation was a finalist for the BPS division Free Press Doctoral Dissertation Award and also a finalist for the Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Samina currently serves on the editorial review boards of the Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. As an active member of the Academy, she has served as reviewer, presenter, and discussant for the BPS Division at sessions of the AoM annual meetings, as well as organized and presented in Professional Development Workshops. Samina currently serves on the BPS Research Committee. |
| | Kyle J. Mayer (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) is an Associate Professor of Strategy in the Management and Organization Department in the Marshall School of Business at USC. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley in 1999. He completed his undergraduate degree in Agricultural and Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis in 1991. After graduating from Davis, he worked for Amdahl Corporation in Silicon Valley as a project manager, primarily focusing on new product development projects from 1991-1994. He continued to work with Amdahl during his time at Berkeley (1994-1999). Kyle has taught core strategy courses to both undergraduates (one year), full-time MBAs (six years), as well as an MBA core course in global strategy (8 years). He also developed an MBA elective on alliances and cooperative strategies; has done a variety of executive education modules and sessions; and in 2004 won the Golden Apple Award as the best teacher in the full-time MBA core. Kyle's research examines the boundaries of the firm, including determinants of outsourcing (or, more specifically, subcontracting) and the performance effects of governance choice, and the strategic use of contracts. His research has appeared in Management Science, Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Law Economics and Organization, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Managerial and Decision Economics. |