MESSAGE FROM THE STR ASSISTANT PROGRAM CHAIR
Nan Jia, STR Assistant Program Chair
University of Southern California (nan.jia@marshall.usc.edu)
I am delighted to share the 2025 STR Division PDW program with you. The aim of this program is to provide consortia and workshops to help the STR community develop and update their theoretical, methodological, and teaching expertise.
This year, the STR Doctoral consortium co-chairs are Jillian Chown (Northwestern University) and John Eklund (University of Southern California). The STR Dissertation consortium co-chairs are Seth Carnahan (Washington University St Louis) and Vera Rocha (Copenhagen Business School). The Junior Faculty consortium co-chairs are Francisco Polidoro (University of Texas at Austin) and Lourdes Sosa (London School of Economics). The Mid-Career consortium co-chairs are Govert Vroom (IESE) and Richard Whittington (University of Oxford). The STR Junior Faculty Teaching consortium co-chairs are Michael Mol (Copenhagen Business School) and Qian (Cecilia) Gu (Georgia State University). These co-chairs have worked hard to put together an exciting program with the participation of faculty and doctoral students from around the globe. If you have the opportunity, please thank our co-organizers and panelists for their extraordinary service.
STR will again be offering several classic workshops including the Managing your Dissertation Workshop, Fostering Quality Publications from Around the World in Leading Strategy and Organization Journals Workshop, Junior Faculty Paper Development Workshop, Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, and Efficiency and Innovation in Teaching: Perspectives from Expert Scholars in Strategy. We will also offer a number of other PDWs related to a variety of STR theoretical perspectives, methods, and phenomena that span the breadth of our members' research interests. More highlights from the 2025 STR PDW Program are listed below. Please be on the lookout for additional information (including information on applications) for the STR PDWs on the STR discussion board.
We thank all the PDW and consortia organizers and committed panelists who contributed to this years' PDW program. A special thanks to STR EC member Catherine Magelssen (London Business School) and the Research Committee for their invaluable support with our conference award process. Many thanks also to the other STR officers - Louise Mors, Deepak Somaya, Brian Wu and Isin Guler- and the STR Secretary -David Maslach- for all their help and support.
Highlights of the STR PDW Program 2025
Classic Workshops:
STR Managing Your Dissertation Workshop. Organizers: Daniel Wilde, Indiana University, Sukhun Kang (UC Santa Barbara), Amisha Miller (NYU), Michael Park (INSEAD), and Shirley Xiaoli Tang (Bocconi).
Fostering Quality Publications from Around the World in Leading Strategy and Organization Journals. Organizers: Martina Pasquini, IE Business School (Europe); Theresa Onaji-Benson, Gordon Institute of Business Science (Africa); Wei (Vivian) Guo, CEIBS China Europe International Business School (East Asia); Pitosh Heyden, Monash University (ASEAN & Oceania); Edgar Ramirez Solis, Tecnologico de Monterrey (North & Central America); Marina Amado Bahia Gama, Sao Paolo SBA FGV (Americas); Nilam Kaushik, IIM Bangalore (Southwest Asia)
STR Junior Faculty Paper Development Workshop. Organizers: Wesley Koo, Johns Hopkins University; Maria Roche, Harvard Business School; Lisa Tang (National University of Singapore); Thomaz Teodorovicz (Copenhagen Business School).
Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Organizers: Natalie Burford (IESE Business School); Konstantina Kiousis (Washington U. at St. Louis)
Efficiency and Innovation in Teaching: Perspectives from Expert Scholars in Strategy. Organizers: Natalie Burford (IESE Business School); Konstantina Kiousis (Washington U. at St. Louis)
Other Workshops:
Theory-Based Learning and Experimentation: A conversation about modelling frameworks. Organizers: Timo Ehrig (ULB); Todd Zenger (University of Utah)
Strategy and Innovation in the Biopharmaceutical and Healthcare Sectors. Organizers: Sandip Bisui (Purdue University); Julia Bodner (Copenhagen Business School); Sukhun Kang (University of California Santa Barbara)
Strategies To Include Underserved and Disenfranchised Communities. Organizers: Octavio Augusto de Barros (HEC-Paris); Marieke Huysentruyt (HEC-Paris); Lorenzo Lesana (IESE Business School)
Exploring New Frontiers in Organizational Search. Organizers: Junghyo Sun (INSEAD); Cyrille Grumbach (ETH Zürich, D-MTEC)
Managerial Foresight: Unraveling The Enigma. Organizers: Daniel Wilde (Indiana University); Rahul Kapoor (University of Pennsylvania)
Publishing Organizational Structure and Design Papers: An Editor and Author Perspective. Organizers: John Eklund (University of Southern California); Michael Lee (INSEAD); Saerom (Ronnie) Lee (University of Pennsylvania); Trevor Young-Hyman (University of Pittsburgh)
Entrepreneurial Scaling: Strategic and Organizational Perspectives. Organizers: Alicia DeSantola (U. of Washington); Nataliya Wright (Columbia Business School); Jingya You (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Bridging Collective Strategizing and Coopetition Research: A Zooming In and Out Perspective. Organizers: Tatbeeq Raza Ullah (Nottingham Trent University); Saouré Kouamé (U. of Ottawa)
Luck, Serendipity, and Chance in Management and Strategy. Organizers: Christian Busch (USC Marshall School of Business); Madeleine Stefanie Rauch (Cambridge Judge Business School)
How disruptive will (Gen)AI be? And, what are some business schools doing about it? Organizers: Michael G. Jacobides (London Business School)
Research in Emerging Markets: Theoretical and Methodological Frontiers. Organizers: Amrita Saha (University of Toronto); Daphne Coelho (INSPER Teaching and Research Institute)
CEO psychological characteristics: When and How Do They Matter? Organizers: Nandil Bhatia (Columbia Business School)
AI and the Carnegie School: Collaborative Pathways to Advancing Strategy and Organizational Research. Organizers: Sunkee Lee (Carnegie Mellon U); Luke Rhee (U. of California, Irvine)
Behavioral Perspectives into the Economics of Strategy. Organizers: Sandip Bisui (Purdue U.); Jessica Jeesoo Kim (U. of California, Irvine)
Board and TMT Diversity: A Paper Development Workshop. Organizers: Elena Doldor (Queen Mary U. of London); Corinne A. Post (Villanova U.); Steve Sauerwald (U. of Houston); Cathrine Seierstad (U. of South-Eastern Norway)
The Strategy Capstone Course: Emerging Technologies and Pedagogical Innovations. Organizers: Carl Vieregger (Drake U.); Peter Jack Gallo (Creighton U.); Eric C. Larson (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The Illusion of Precision: A Reexamination of VC Investment Data. Organizers: Jay Habegger (U. of Maryland)
Research Frontiers in Nonmarket Strategy. Organizers: William Reuben Hurst (U. of Maryland); Zhao Li (New York U.); Carlos Inoue (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
New Frontiers in Open Source: Implications for Strategy and Organization Research. Organizers: Matteo Devigili (INSEAD); Frank Nagle (Harvard Business School); Tony Tong (U. of Colorado, Boulder)
Corporate Political Activity (CPA) Idea Incubator: New Directions across Borders and Levels. Organizers: Ivana Katic (Georgetown University); Onna Malou van den Broek (Copenhagen Business School)
Dynamic Interactions in Digital-Age Strategy: Competition, Cooperation, Learning, and Innovation. Organizers: Anparasan Mahalingam (Syracuse U.); Richard Makadok (Ohio State U.)
Private Capital as an Alternative Form of Ownership and Governance: Research Opportunities. Organizers: Vikas A. Aggarwal (INSEAD); Paul Nary (U. of Pennsylvania)
Generative AI: Innovation and Competitive Strategies. Organizers: Jaeho Kim (U. of Pennsylvania)
External Corporate Venturing. Organizers: Christopher Albert Sabel (Erasmus U.); Francesca Segato (Copenhagen Business School); Hanei Son (HEC Paris); Euiju (Eugene) Jeon (Technical University of Denmark)
The Evolution of Corporate Purpose. Organizers: Ibrat Djabbarov (Imperial College London); Maurizio Zollo (Imperial College Business School)
Generative AI and the Epistemology of Knowledge: Redefining Individual and Collaborative Research. Organizers: Deepak Nayak (Ohio State U.); Navid Asgari (Fordham U.); Harsh Ketkar (University of Texas Austin)
Using Computational Models in Behavioral Strategy Research. Organizers: Dong-Nghi PHAM (ESADE Business School); Maciej Workiewicz (ESSEC Business School)
Innovating on Evaluations: Metrics, Format, and Framing. Organizers: Jacqueline Lane (Harvard U.); Simon Friis (Harvard Business School); Cyrille Grumbach (ETH Zürich); Miaomiao Zhang (Harvard Business School)
Trademarks in Strategy: Research Opportunities at the Intersection of IP and Competitive Advantage. Organizers: Matthias Qian (ESMT Berlin); Julian Kolev (USPTO)
Strategy, Organization, and Management Research as Evolutionary Social Science?. Organizers: Jan-Willem Stoelhorst (U. of Amsterdam)
Studying Emotion in Strategy Research. Organizers: Christopher Golding (U. of Manchester); Mark P. Healey (U. of Manchester); Gerard P. Hodgkinson (U. of Manchester)
Encouraging Challenging Conversations: Micro and Macro Perspectives on Fact-Based Discourse. Organizers: Rajshree Agarwal (U. of Maryland); Protiti Dastidar (University of Maryland)
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Nan Jia
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA
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