Brian S. Silverman
J.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair in Management
(416) 946-7811 (phone)
(416) 978-4629 (fax)
silverman@rotman.utoronto.ca
2001-present
J.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair in Management, 2004-
Full Professor, 2004-
Magna International Professor of Strategy, 2003-2004
Associate Professor, 2001-2004
1998-2001 Harvard University,
Assistant Professor
1995-1998 University of
Assistant Professor
Visiting
positions
Fall 2010 New York University, Stern School of
Business
Visiting Scholar
March 2010 Singapore Management University
Visiting Professor
March 2009 Université de Paris I
Visiting Professor
June 2005 Université de Paris XI
Visiting Professor
2004
Senior Fellow
2003 Columbia Business School
Visiting Scholar
Education
1996
Ph.D. degree in Business Administration
Concentration: Business and Public Policy
1992 M.A. degree in Economics
Concentration: Industrial Organization
1990
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
S.M. degree in Management
Concentrations: Corporate Strategy; Applied Economics; Marketing
1985
A.B. degree magna cum laude in Economics
Journal Articles
de Figueiredo, J.M. and B.S.
Silverman (2011), “Firm Survival and Industry Evolution in Vertically Related
Populations,” Management Science, forthcoming.
Oxley, J.E., R. Sampson and B.S. Silverman (2009),
“Arms Race or Detente? The Effect of Alliance Announcements on Rivals’ Market Values,”
forthcoming, Management Science.
Nickerson, J.A.,
B.S. Silverman, and T.R. Zenger (2007), “The ‘Problem’ of Creating and
Capturing Value,” Strategic Organization,
5(3): 211-225.
de Figueiredo, J.M. and B.S. Silverman (2007), “Churn, Baby, Churn: Strategic Dynamics Among Dominant and Fringe Firms in a Segmented Industry,” Management Science, 53(4): 632-650.
McGahan, A.M. and B.S. Silverman (2006), “Profiting from
Others’ Technological Innovation: The
Effect of Competitor Patenting on Firm Value,” Research Policy, 35(8): 1222-1242.
de Figueiredo, J.M. and B.S. Silverman (2006), “The Returns to Lobbying: University Lobbying Efforts and the Allocation of ‘Earmarked’ Academic Grants,” Journal of Law and Economics, 49(2): 597-626.
Baum, J.A.C. and B.S. Silverman (2004), “Picking Winners or Building Them? Alliances, Patents, and Human Capital as Selection Criteria in Venture Financing of Biotechnology Startups,” Journal of Business Venturing, 19: 411-436.
Named Most Impactful Paper from 2004 by Journal of Business Venturing in 2010.
Reprinted in M. McKelvey and L. Orsenigo (editors) (2006), The Economics of Biotechnology (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar).
Nickerson, J.A. and B.S. Silverman (2003), “Why Firms Want to Organize Efficiently and What Keeps them from Doing So: Inappropriate Governance, Performance, and Adaptation in a Deregulated Industry,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 48(3): 433-465.
Nickerson, J.A. and B.S. Silverman (2003), “Why Aren’t Truck Drivers Owner-Operators? Asset Ownership and the Employment Relation in Interstate For-Hire Trucking,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 12(1), pp. 91-118.
B.S. Silverman and J.A.C. Baum (2002),
“Alliance-based Competitive Dynamics,” Academy
of Management Journal 45(4), pp. 791-806.
McGahan, A.M. and B.S. Silverman (2001), “How Does Innovative Activity Change as Industries Mature?” International Journal of Industrial Organization 19(7), pp. 1141-1160.
Calabrese, T., J.A.C. Baum and B.S. Silverman (2000), “Canadian Biotechnology Startups, 1991‑1997: The Role of Incumbents' Patents and Strategic Alliances in Controlling Competition,” Social Science Research 29(4), pp. 503-534.
Baum, J.A.C., T. Calabrese and B.S. Silverman (2000), “Don’t Go it Alone: Alliance Networks and Startup Performance in Canadian Biotechnology,” Strategic Management Journal 21(3), pp. 267-294.
Silverman, B.S. (1999), “Technological Resources and the Direction of Corporate Diversification: Toward an Integration of the Resource-Based View and Transaction Cost Economics,” Management Science, 45(8), pp. 1109-1124.
Reprinted in M. Wiersema (editor) (2011), Corporate Strategy (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar).
Mowery, D.C., J.E. Oxley and B.S. Silverman (1998), “Technological Overlap and Interfirm Cooperation: Implications for the Resource-Based View of the Firm,” Research Policy 27(5), pp. 507-523.
Silverman, B.S., J.A. Nickerson and J. Freeman (1997),
“Profitability, Transactional Alignment, and Organizational Mortality in the
Mowery, D.C., J.E. Oxley and B.S. Silverman (1996), “Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer,” Strategic Management Journal 17(Winter), pp. 77-91.
Grindley, P., D.C. Mowery and B. Silverman (1994), “The Lessons of SEMATECH: Implications for the Design of High-Technology Research Consortia,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 13(4), Fall, pp. 723-758.
Reprinted as “The Design of
High-Technology Consortia: Lessons from SEMATECH,” in M. Teubal
(editor) (1996), Technological
Infrastructure Policy: An International Perspective (
Nickerson,
J.A. and B.S. Silverman (co-editors) (2009), The Economic Institutions of
Strategy - Advances in Strategic
Management, Volume 26 (London UK: Emerald).
Silverman, B.S. (2002), Technological Resources and the
Logic of Corporate Diversification (
Ingram, P. and B.S. Silverman (co-editors) (2002), The
New Institutionalism in Strategic Management - Advances in Strategic Management, (
Book Chapters
Nickerson,
J.A. and B.S. Silverman (2009), “The Economic Institutions of Strategy,” in
J.A. Nickerson and B.S. Silverman (editors), The Economic Institutions of
Strategy - Advances in Strategic
Management, Volume 26 (London UK: Emerald).
Nickerson,
J.A. and B.S. Silverman (2009), “New Frontiers in the Strategic Management of
Organizational Change,” in J.A. Nickerson and B.S. Silverman (editors), The
Economic Institutions of Strategy -
Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 26 (London UK: Emerald).
Oxley, J.E. and B.S. Silverman (2008), “Inter-firm Alliances: A New Institutional Economics Approach,” in E. Brousseau and J. Glachant (editors), New Institutional Economics: A Textbook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
de Figueiredo, J.M. and B.S.
Silverman (2007), “How Does the
Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks,”
in R.G. Ehrenberg and
P. Stephan (editors), Science and the University (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press).
Mowery, D.C., J.E. Oxley, and B.S. Silverman (2002), “The
Two Faces of Partner-Specific Absorptive Capacity: Learning and Cospecialization in Strategic Alliances,” in F. Contractor
and P. Lorange (editors), Cooperative Strategies
and Alliances (
Silverman, B.S. (2001), “Organizational Economics,” in
J.A.C. Baum (editor), Blackwell Companion
to Organizations (
Baum, J.A.C. and B.S. Silverman (2001), “Complexity,
Attractors and Path Dependence and Creation in Technological Evolution,” in R. Garud and P. Karnoe (editors), Path as Process (
Baum, J.A.C. and B.S. Silverman (1999), “Complexity in the
Dynamics of Organizational Founding and Failure,” in M. Lissack
and H. Gunz (editors), Managing
Complexity in Organizations (
Nickerson, J.A. and B.S. Silverman (1998), “Economic Performance, Strategic Position, and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressure in the U.S. Interstate Trucking Industry,” in J.A.C. Baum (editor), Advances in Strategic Management 15, pp. 37-61.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
2010, “Vertically Challenged? Vertically Related Populations, Exit Rates, and the Evolution of the Laser Printer Industry,” Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (Montreal, QC), August, with J.M. de Figueiredo.
2003, “Picking Winners or Making Them? Alliances, Patents, and Human Capital as Selection Criteria in Venture Financing and Performance of Biotechnology Startups,” in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings (Seattle, WA), August, with J.A.C. Baum.
2001, “Core Technology, Peripheral Technology, and Corporate Diversification,” in Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (London, ON), June.
1999, “The Impact of Incumbents’ Patenting
and Technological Alliances on the Founding of Canadian Biotech Firms,
1991-1997,” in Proceedings of the Administrative
Sciences Association of Canada (Saint John, NB), June, with T. Calabrese
and J.A.C. Baum. Best Paper Award
of Excellence, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Administrative
Sciences Association of
1999, “Don’t Go it Alone: Alliances, Networks, and Startup
Performance in Canadian Biotechnology,” in Proceedings
of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (
1998, “Economic Performance,
Strategic Position, and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressure among
1998, “Alliances, Patents, and Competitive Dynamics in
Canadian Biotechnology,” in Proceedings
of the Administrative Sciences Association of
1997, “Profitability, Transactional Alignment, and
Organizational Mortality in the
1997, “Strategy and Structure: The Choice of the Employment
Relation in the Interstate For-Hire Trucking Industry,” in Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of
1997, “Diversification, Mode of Entry, and Survival for Foreign
vs. Domestic Expansion: Are There Really
Differences?” in Proceedings of the
Administrative Sciences Association of
1996, “Exploitation of Technical Assets and the Direction of
Corporate Diversification,” in Proceedings
of the Administrative Sciences Association of
1996, “Technological Complementarity, Technological Overlap,
and Interfirm Cooperation,” in Proceedings,
Conference on Management of Intellectual Capital,
1996, “Technical Resources and the Direction of Corporate
Diversification,” in Proceedings,
Conference on Management of Intellectual Capital,
Edited Proceedings
1998, Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (Technology and Innovation Management Division), Vol. 19, No. 25.
Other Publications
Silverman, B.S. (2002), “A Culture of Innovation,” National Post, May 27, p. FP9. (Part of the National Post Series on Competitiveness, edited by D. Trefler).
Silverman, B.S. (2002), “Book review: Technological
Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation: The Structure of Patenting
1890-1990,”
Baum, J.A.C. and B.S. Silverman (1998), “Patent Races,
Capital Races, Learning Races, and Partnering Races in Canadian Biotechnology,
1991-1997,” in F. Haynes (editor), Canadian
Biotechnology 1998 Directory (
Nickerson, J.A. and B.S. Silverman (1998), “Intellectual Capital Management Strategy: The Foundation of Successful New Business Generation,” Journal of Knowledge Management 1(4):320-331.
“Accrue Software, Inc.”
“Health Resources & Technology,” Harvard Business School Case #9-700-003, with A.M. McGahan.
“Level (3) Communications in 2001: The ‘Pivotal Year,’” Harvard Business School Case #9-701-059, with B. Huntsberger.
“Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea,”
“Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (A),”
“Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (B),”
“Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (C),”
“Scotts Company: North American Corporate Strategy,” Harvard Business School Case #9-701-002, with M.E. Porter.
“Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Solaris Strategy,” Harvard Business School Case #9-701-058, with Mark Rosenberg.
“Tascot Ties: Going Neck-and-Neck with Tradition,” Harvard Business School Case #9-808-082, with M. Tripsas.
Works in Progress
de Figueiredo, J.M. and B.S. Silverman,
“Vertically Challenged? Vertically Related Populations, Exit
Rates, and the Evolution of the Laser Printer Industry,” under review.
de Figueiredo, J.M. and B.S. Silverman, “The
Effect of Markets for Technology and Vertical Integration on Exit, Entry, and
Price: An Empirical Analysis of the Laser Printer Industry,” working paper,
University of Toronto.
Ingram, P. and B.S.
Silverman, “Managing Agency Problems in Early
Shareholder Capitalism: An Exploration of Liverpool Shipping, 1743-1784.”
Goldfarb,
A., S. Samila and B.S. Silverman, “Retail
Format as a Barrier to Entry,” under review.
Goldfarb,
A., S. Samila and B.S. Silverman, “Social
Transactions Costs: How a Little Shyness can have a Big (Retail) Effect,”
working paper, University of Toronto.
Academic
Presentations
“Managing Agency
Problems in Early Shareholder Capitalism: An Exploration of Liverpool Shipping,
1743-1784.”
Presented at New
York University, December 2010.
Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual meetings,
Berkeley, CA, June 2009.
“The Effects of Markets for Technology and Vertical Integration on Exit, Entry, and Price: An Empirical Analysis of the Laser Printer Industry”
Presented at University of Maryland, College Park, April 2010.
Presented at Washington University in St. Louis, April 2010.
Presented at Singapore Management University, March 2010.
Presented at Stanford University, December 2009.
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings, Chicago, August 2009.
Presented at the Wharton Technology Conference, Philadelphia, April 2009.
Presented at IESE, March 2009.
Presented at INSEAD, March 2009.
Presented at HEC Paris, March 2009.
Presented at University of Ottawa, November 2008.
Presented at the Israel Strategy Conference, Tel Aviv, December 2008.
Presented at the Erin Anderson Memorial Conference, Philadelphia, October 2008.
Presented at Duke University, October 2008.
Presented at the Markets for Technology conference, Madrid, September 2008.
Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual meetings,
Toronto, June 2008.
“Vertically
Challenged? Vertically Related Populations, Exit Rates, and the Evolution of
the Laser Printer Industry”
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings, Montreal, August 2010.
Presented at New York University, April 2008.
“Arms Race or Détente? The Effect of Alliance Announcements on Rivals’ Market Values”
Presented at Université de Paris I, March 2009.
Presented at UCLA Anderson School of Management, December 2008.
Presented at the Utah Winter Strategy Conference, February 2008.
“Organizational Exploration via Individuals’ Exploitative Search”
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings, Philadelphia, August 2008.
“Beyond the Fringe: Heterogeneous Responses of Fringe Firms to Segment Entry by a Dominant Firm”
Presented at the Strategy, Industry and Innovation Conference, Lucca, July 2007.
“The Impact of Changes to R&D Structure on the Development of Corporate Technological Knowledge”
Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual meetings,
Reykjavik, June 2007.
“Patent Data”
Presented at the Cross-National Technology Licensing Conference, Toronto, June 2007.
Presented at the FIVE Project Conference, Dartmouth College, May 2007.
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Revalued – Alliance Announcements and Abnormal Returns Experienced by Allying Firms’ Rivals”
Presented at Universite de Paris XI, March 2007.
Presented at York University, January 2007.
Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual
meetings,
Presented
at the
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meeting, Honolulu, August 2005.
“Churn, Baby, Churn: Strategic Dynamics Among Dominant and Fringe Firms in a Segmented
Industry”
Presented
at University of Central Florida, January 2007.
Presented
at Carnegie Mellon University, November 2006.
Presented
at Columbia University, September 2006.
“Profiting from Technological
Innovation by Others: The Effect of Competitor Patenting on Firm Value”
Presented
at the Research Policy Special Issue conference, Berkeley, September 2006.
“Lateral Dominance and Fringe Benefits: Strategic Dynamics between Dominant and Fringe Firms” (with J.M. de Figueiredo)
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings, Atlanta, August 2006.
Presented
at the DRUID Summer Conference,
Presented
at the Conference to honor Michael Gort,
Presented at INSEAD Singapore, March 2006.
Presented at National University Singapore, March 2006.
Presented at University of Minnesota, March 2006.
“Learning By Hiring or Hiring to Avoid Learning? Organizational Exploration via Individuals’ Exploitation” (with D. Tzabbar and B.S. Aharonson).
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meeting, Honolulu, August 2005.
Presented
at H.E.C.,
Presented at Université de Paris XI, May 2005.
Presented at the Wharton School, March 2005.
Presented at the University of Texas, Austin, March 2005.
“Firm Value Depends on Innovation by Competitors” (with A.M. McGahan).
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings, Atlanta, August 2006.
Presented at ATOM - Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, May 2005.
“The Returns to Lobbying: University Lobbying Efforts and the Allocation of ‘Earmarked’ Academic Grants” (with J.M. de Figueiredo).
Presented at Université de Paris XI, May 2005.
Presented at the American Law and
Economics Association annual meeting,
September 2003.
Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual meeting,
Presented at the NBER Summer Institute meetings, Cambridge MA, July 2002.
Presented at the Strategy Research
Forum,
Presented at the IIB Roundtable,
Presented at the Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, November 2001.
“Endogenous Cost Lobbying with Retrospective Voters” (with J.M. de Figueiredo).
Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual
meetings,
“Research Consortia and the
Diffusion of Technological Knowledge: Insights from SEMATECH” (with A.Ziedonis and R.H. Ziedonis).
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meeting, Honolulu,
August 2005.
Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual
meetings,
“Why Firms Want to Organize Efficiently and What Keeps them from Doing So: Evidence from the For-hire Trucking Industry” (with J.A. Nickerson).
Presented at
Presented at University of Southern California, November 2003.
Presented at Tilburg University, October 2003.
Presented at
INSEAD, March 2003.
Presented at ATOM - Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, March 2003.
Presented
at the
Presented at the
Presented at the
2001.
Presented at the
Presented at the Academy of Management national meetings, Toronto, August 2000. Presented at the Summer Research Seminar for Spanish Scholars, Royal Complutense
College, July 2000.
Presented at the Western Economic
Association International Conference,
CA, July 2000.
Presented at the Strategy Research Forum, Cohasset MA, May 2000.
“Picking Winners or Making Them? Alliances, Patents, and Human Capital as Selection Criteria in Venture Financing and Performance of Biotechnology Startups” (with J.A.C. Baum).
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meetings, Seattle, August 2003.
“R&D, Organization Structure, and the Development of Corporate Technological Knowledge” (with N.S. Argyres).
Presented at the SMJ Special Issue
Conference,
“Corporate Strategy and the Value of Innovation: The Stock Market’s Valuation of Patents as a Function of Appropriability and Corporate Scope” (with A.M. McGahan).
Presented at the Strategic
Management Society,
“An Economist’s Confusion About Status: Partner Selection and Rent Seeking in Interorganizational Relationships.”
Presented at the Academy of Management national meeting, Wash DC, August 2001.
“Core Technology, Peripheral Technology, and Corporate Diversification.”
Presented at the American Economic
Association annual conference,
January 2001.
Presented at the Academy of Management national meetings, Toronto, August 2000.
“Patent Races, Capital Races, and Partnering Races in Canadian Biotechnology” (with J.A.C. Baum).
Presented at the Strategic Management Society conference, Vancouver, October 2000.
Nominated for McKinsey/SMS Best Conference Paper Prize.
“Predators or Prey? The Effect of Local Competitors’ Economic Health on Motor Carrier Survival” (with J.A. Nickerson).
Presented at the Strategic Management Society conference, Vancouver, October 2000.
Nominated for McKinsey/SMS Best Conference Paper Prize.
Presented at the International Society for New Institutional Economics annual meeting,
Presented at the Academy of Management national meetings, Chicago, August 1999.
“Why Aren’t All Truck Drivers Owner-Operators? Asset Ownership and the Employment Relation in Interstate For-Hire Trucking” (with J.A. Nickerson).
Presented at the Summer Research Seminar for Spanish Scholars, Royal Complutense
College, July 2000.
Presented at the
Presented at the
University, December 1998.
“Corporate Diversification, Patent Activity, and Market Value: Firm Heterogeneity in Appropriating Returns from Patented Innovations” (with A.M. McGahan).
Presented at the Academy of Management national meetings, Chicago, August 1999.
“Canadian Biotechnology Start Ups, 1991-1997: The Role of Incumbents’ Patents and Strategic Alliances” (with T. Calabrese and J.A.C. Baum).
Presented at the American Sociological Association national meetings, Chicago, August
1999.
Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, Saint
“Don’t Go it Alone: Alliances, Networks, and Startup Performance in Canadian Biotechnology” (with J.A.C. Baum and T. Calabrese).
Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, Saint
“Alliance- and Patent-based Competitive Dynamics in the Canadian Biotechnology Industry” (with J.A.C. Baum).
Presented at the Strategic
Management Society,
Presented at the
“Economic Performance, Strategic Position, and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressures among U.S. Interstate Motor Carriers” (with J.A. Nickerson).
Presented at the
Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings,
“Alliances, Patents, and Competitive Dynamics in Canadian Biotechnology” (with J.A.C. Baum).
Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings,
Presented at the INFORMS Spring
Conference, Organization Science session,
April 1998.
“Technological Resources and the Direction of Corporate Diversification: Toward an Integration of the Resource-Based View and Transaction Cost Economics.”
Presented at Harvard Business School, December 1997.
Presented at the University of Michigan Business School, April 1997.
Presented at
the
Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Montreal, QU, May 1996.
Presented at
the McMaster Conference on Management of Intellectual Capital,
January 1996.
“Integrating Competitive Strategy and Transaction Cost Economics: An Operationalization of Fit in the Interstate Trucking Industry” (with J.A. Nickerson).
Presented at The
Presented at
Presented at the University of Michigan Business School, November 1997.
Presented at the
Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, St.
Johns, NF, June 1997.
Presented at the Southern Economic
Association,
“Transaction
Interdependence: Firm Heterogeneity
within Transaction Cost Economics” (with J.A. Nickerson).
Presented at the INFORMS Fall
Conference, Organization Science session,
October 1997.
Presented at the
“Convergent and Divergent Technological Development in Strategic Alliances” (with D.C. Mowery and J.E. Oxley).
Presented at the CIRST Conference
on the Internationalization of R&D, HEC,
August 1997.
Presented at the
“Profitability, Transactional Alignment, and Organizational Mortality in the U.S. Trucking Industry” (with J.A. Nickerson and J. Freeman).
Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, St.
Johns, NF, June 1997.
Presented at the Strategic
Management Journal Special Issue Conference,
MA, October 1996.
“Diversification, Mode of Entry, and Survival for Foreign vs. Domestic Expansion: Are There Really Differences?”
Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, St.
Johns, NF, June 1997.
Presented at the CIBER Conference on Longitudinal Research on Foreign Market Entry,
“Interorganizational Technology Transfer: Evidence from SEMATECH” (with D.C. Mowery).
Presented at the Administrative
Sciences Association of
NF, June 1997.
Presented at
the
“Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer” (with D.C. Mowery and J.E. Oxley).
Presented at
the Strategic Management Society Conference,
Presented at
HEC Conference on Transatlantic Management,
“Technological Complementarity, Technological Overlap, and Interfirm Cooperation.”
Presented at the McMaster
Conference on Management of Intellectual Capital,
ON, January 1996.
Fundamentals of Strategic Management (M.B.A. core)
Advanced Concepts in Strategic Management (M.B.A. core)
Cooperative Strategy (M.B.A. elective)
Venture Capital Strategy (M.B.A. elective)
Management of Technological Innovation (M.B.A. elective)
Commercializing Technological Innovation (M.B.A. elective)
Strategy and Economics (Ph.D. course)
Competition and Strategy (M.B.A. core)
Technology and Competitive Strategy (M.B.A. elective)
St. Mary’s College of California [Lecturer]
Business Policy and Competitive Strategy (M.B.A.)
Social and Political Environment of Business (Undergraduate)
Dean Hennessy, Strategic Management, Dissertation Chair, 2007, Tilburg University
Barak Aharonson, Strategic Management, Dissertation Chair, 2008, Tel Aviv University
Xuesong Geng, Strategic Management, Dissertation Chair, 2009, Singapore Management University
Paul Seaborn, Strategic Management, Dissertation Chair, 2011, University of Denver
Maria Fonseca, Center for Industrial Relations, Dissertation Committee, 2004, EGADE, Tec de Monterey (Dean)
Eytan Lasry, Strategic Management, Dissertation Committee, 2005, York University
Giovanni Valentini, IESE, Dissertation Committee External Member, 2006, Bocconi University
Daniel Tzabbar, Organizational Behavior, Dissertation Committee, 2006, Drexel University
Herman van den Berg, Faculty of Information Systems, Dissertation Co-Chair, 2008, Lakehead University
2008, SSHRC Operating Grant, for “Strategic Dynamics in Segmented Industries.” 3 years, $142,968 CDN. John de Figueiredo of UCLA is collaborator.
2006, SSHRC Operating Grant, for
“Interfirm Alliances, Learning, and Competition.” 3 years, $62,860
CDN. Joanne E. Oxley of
2003, SSHRC Operating Grant, for “R&D,
Organization Structure, and the Development of Corporate Technological
Knowledge,” 3 years, $113,444 CDN. Nicholas S. Argyres of
1997, SSHRC Operating Grant, for “Diversification and Joint Venture Formation as Alternative Mechanisms for Accessing and Exploiting Resources: Implications for the Theory of the Firm,” 3 years, $62,200 CDN.
1997, U.S. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technologies Program, for “Evaluating ATP-Sponsored Consortia,” 9 months, $69,050 US, with D.C. Mowery and J.E. Oxley.
1996,
Industry Experience
1995-2000 ICM Group
Founder and Affiliate, management consulting firm specializing in intellectual capital management.
1991-1995 Law and Economics Consulting Group
Research Associate, economic and litigation consulting firm.
summer 1991 EconomInc
Research Associate, economic consulting firm.
summer 1989 Dunlop Tire Corporation
1990-1991 Marketing intern, special projects. Subsequently performed intermittent consulting services in marketing strategy.
1986-1988 Temple, Barker & Sloane, Inc.
Research Associate, strategic and general management consulting firm.
[Note: Now part of Oliver Wyman]
1985-1986 Nutter, McClennen
and Fish, P.C.
Legal Assistant, corporate practice division.
Awards and Honors
2010 Most Impactful Paper, Journal of Business Venturing (given for article published in 2004)
2005-2010 Excellence in Teaching Award, Rotman School of Management
2003 Professor
of the Year,
2002 Runner-up,
Best Professor,
2001 Named
“Noted
2000 Two papers nominated for McKinsey/Strategic Management Society Best
Conference Paper Prize
1999 Best Paper Award of Excellence, Technology and Innovation Management
Division, Administrative Sciences
Association of
1998 Honourable Mention Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division,
Administrative Sciences Association of
1997 Best Paper Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division,
Adminstrative
Sciences Association of
1997 Honourable Mention Award of Excellence, Policy Division, Administrative
Sciences Association of
1997 Finalist, Best Dissertation, Business Policy & Strategy Division, Academy of
Management
1997 Best
Professor,
1996 Best Paper Award of Excellence, Policy Division, Administrative Sciences
Association of
1994 Henry
K. Hayase Award, Haas
1992 Outstanding Graduate Student
Instructor Award,
1991 Bradley
Fellowship,
1982-85 Dean’s List,
1982-84 Harvard
Honorary Scholarship,
Activities and
Associations
Series Editor, Advances in Strategic Management, annual publication (Emerald Insight), 2011-
Member, Scientific Council, “Economics of PPP” Chair, Université de Paris I Sorbonne, 2010-
Advisory Board, Israel Strategy Conference, 2009-
Board, Strategy Research Initiative, 2008-Board member, International Society of New Institutional Economics, 2007-
Editorial Board, Organization Science, 2006-
Editorial Board, Strategic Organization, 2001-
Advisory Editor, Research Policy, 2006-
Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2005-2009
Departmental Editor, Journal of International Business Studies, 2002-2006
Editorial Board,
Editorial Board, Business and Politics, 1999-2002
Co-chair, Business, Policy & Strategy division doctoral consortium, 2002-2003
Executive committee member at large, Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, 1999-2001
Division Chair, Technology and
Innovation Management Group of the Administrative Sciences Association of
Program Chair, Administrative Sciences Association of
Technology and Innovation Management special interest group
Academic Reviewer, Administrative Sciences Association of
Technology and Innovation Management special interest group
Member,
Member, American Economic Association
Member, International Society for New Institutional Economics
Member, Strategic Management Society
Co-founder and member, Strategy Research Forum
Ad Hoc Reviewer, various journals.
Reviewer, SSHRC Grant Proposals