Boston University School of Management

Strategy & Innovation Department

Our Mission Strategy & Innovation Faculty

Our mission is to provide thought leadership in the field PROFESSORS of strategy in order to inform our peers, students, and, ultimately, the practitioners worldwide who must deal with Iain Cockburn, Richard C. Shipley Professor in Management and Department Chair the realities of a complex and fast-changing world. We focus Cockburn earned his PhD in economics from Harvard University broadly on how new and established firms generate and and his BSc degree from Queen Mary College, University of sustain performance differentials over their competitors. We London. His research interests include industrial organization, are interested in exploring not just the appropriate strategy competitive strategy, pharmaceutical and biotechnology for conditions but how firms execute on that strategy and industries, economics of technical change, and intellectual the practices that most effectively enable implementation. property. We place particular emphasis on the study of innovation in different kinds of organizations and the role of technological Kira Fabrizio, Assistant Professor Fabrizio, who comes to the School from Duke University Fuqua change in creating new industries and reshaping existing School of Business, received her PhD and MA from the University ones. of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business and her BA from Our Philosophy Wesleyan University. Her areas of interest involve knowledge exploitation, firm strategy, and intellectual property rights. In We believe that rigorous, first-class research is key to addition, she has received various awards for her scholarly work, the understanding of modern strategy and innovation including the Crawford Dissertation Fellowship and the Sloan phenomena. Because of that, we strive to attract the best Foundation Research Fellowship. and strongest faculty in our domain and create a vibrant intellectual environment where they can flourish. We believe Jeffrey Furman, Associate Professor that the complex, fast-changing strategy issues of today Furman earned his PhD in strategy and innovation from MIT. He received his BS and BA degrees from the University of require an interdisciplinary approach, and so our faculty Pennsylvania. Furman’s research examines the impact of expertise range from organizational theory to economics to institutions on the accumulation of scientific and technical sociology. We believe in collegiality and collaboration, and knowledge and the strategic management of science-based firms. are proud of being part of an eclectic and highly motivated group of researchers and instructors. We are committed Stine Grodal, Assistant Professor to excellence in the classroom, in our research, and in our Grodal completed her PhD in management science and professional activities. engineering at Stanford University and her MS and BS degrees in psychology at the University of Copenhagen. Her main research examines institutional change, the meaning and interpretation Our Research Interests of technology, organizing for innovation, strategic action, and • Creativity and design industry emergence. • Diffusion of innovations and new business models Samina Karim, Assistant Professor • Disruptive innovation and platform competition Karim earned her PhD in corporate strategy and her MAE in • Dynamics of industry standards applied economics from the University of Michigan. She received • Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship her EdM in education from Harvard University and her BS in • Entry-timing advantages electrical engineering from Cornell University. Her research • Flexibility, modularity, and firm performance interests include reorganization and restructuring, mergers and • Innovation strategies acquisitions, innovation by incumbent firms, and post-acquisition • Innovation communities and networks integration. • Intellectual property Siobhan O’Mahony, Associate Professor • Learning and knowledge transfer O’Mahony earned her PhD in management science and • Reorganization and firm turnaround engineering from Stanford University. She received her MPA • Strategic alliances and acquisitions in public affairs as well as her undergraduate degree from • Selected industry expertise: telecommunications, software, Cornell University. Her research interests include organizing for biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology, innovation, design and business, managing and leading creative and creative industries and technical projects, network and distributed models of innovation, and coordinating technical and creative work.

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Timothy Simcoe, Assistant Professor recent and forthcoming publications Simcoe received his PhD in business administration and MA in Chatterji, A. & Fabrizio, K. (Forthcoming 2012). “How Do Product economics from the University of California at Berkeley and an AB Users Influence Corporate Invention?” Organization Science. in applied math and economics from Harvard University. Simcoe’s research covers topics in innovation, science and technology policy, Simcoe, T. & Farrell, J. (Forthcoming 2012). “Choosing the Rules for intellectual property, and corporate strategy. He is an expert in the Consensus Standardization.” The RAND Journal of Economics. area of compatibility standards. Furman, J. (2012). “The Economics of Science and Technology Fernando Suarez, Professor (effective September 1, 2012) and Leadership.” In Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Dean’s Research Fellow Handbook. Bainbridge, W. S. (Ed). Sage Publications. Suarez earned his PhD in management (strategy) and MCP from MIT and completed his undergraduate degree in economics at Furman, J., Jensen, K., & Murray, F. (2012). “Governing knowledge the University of Chile. His research interests include technology production in the scientific community: Quantifying the impact of strategy, entry timing strategies, standards and dominant designs, retractions.” Research Policy, 41(2), 276-290. industry evolution, innovation and creativity, strategic turnarounds, Furman, J., Murray F., & Stern, S. (Forthcoming 2012). “Growing and the role of services in product firms. Stem Cells: The Impact of U.S. Policy on the Organization of Sushil Vachani, Professor and Special Assistant to the President Scientific Research.” Journal of Policy Analysis & Management. Vachani received his doctorate in international business from Furman, J. & Stern, S. (2011). “Climbing Atop the Shoulder of Giants: Harvard University. He completed his postgraduate diploma in The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research.” American management at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Economic Review, 101(5), 1933-1963. and his bachelor’s degree at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include the impact of climate Granqvist, N., Grodal, S., & Woolley, J. (Forthcoming 2012). “Hedging change on India, the role of governments, NGOs, and multinational Your Bets: Explaining Executives’ Market Labeling Strategies in enterprises (MNEs) in reducing poverty, the impact of globalization Nanotechnology.” Organization Science. and global governance on MNEs, MNE-government relations, and management of diversified MNEs. Karim, S. & Williams, C. (Forthcoming 2012). “Structural knowledge: How Executive Experience With Structural Yanbo Wang, Assistant Professor Composition Affects Intrafirm Mobility and Structural Change.” Wang holds a PhD from MIT, a master’s degree from the University Strategic Management Journal. of Arizona, and a bachelor’s degree from Peking University. Wang’s research on international entrepreneurship focuses on the role O’Mahony, S. & Dahlander, L. (2011). “Progressing to the Center: of two different but crucial factors in shaping entrepreneurial Coordinating Knowledge Work.” Organization Science. 22 (4): 961- behaviors: individuals’ social relationships and the institutional 979. context. He also conducts research on foreign direct investment. Simcoe, T. (2012). “Standard Setting Committees: Consensus Governance for Shared Technology Platforms.” American Economic Review, 102(1): 305–336.

Suarez, F., Cusomano, M., & Kahl, S. (Forthcoming). “Services and the Business Models of Product Firms: An Empirical Study of the Software Products Industry.” Management Science.

Suarez, F. & Kirtley, J. (Forthcoming). “Dethroning Established Platforms: Lessons from the iPhone and Beyond.” MIT Sloan Management Review.

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TEACHING FACULTY Post-Doctoral Fellow Aleksios Gotsopoulos Executive-in-Residence Maggie Huff-Rousselle Executive-in-Residence; Lecturer; and Faculty Director, Health Sector Management Program Mark Allan Executive-in-Residence; Senior Lecturer; and Faculty Director, Entrepreneurship Programs, ITEC Peter Russo Executive-in-Residence and Lecturer, Health Sector Management Program Barry Horwitz Executive-in-Residence; Lecturer; Managing Director, ITEC; and Executive Director, Sustainable Neighborhood Lab Paul McManus Executive-in-Residence; Lecturer; and Director, Enterprise Programs, ITEC Vinit Nijhawan Master Lecturer Keith Munsell Lecturers Gregory Collier William Galatis Rana Gupta Barry Horwitz John Kirks Kevin Krauss Paul Levine Ian Mashiter Erik Molander Jonathan Rosen Ashley Stevens Bahar Uttam

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