Brian S. Silverman

 

J.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair in Management

University of Toronto

Rotman School of Management

105 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5S 3E6

(416) 946-7811 (phone)

(416) 978-4629 (fax)

silverman@rotman.utoronto.ca

 

 

Academic Positions

 

2001-present   University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

                        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

 

March 2009     Université de Paris I

                        Visiting Professor

 

June 2005        Université de Paris XI

                        Visiting Professor

 

2004                University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

                        Senior Fellow

 

2003                Columbia Business School

                        Visiting Scholar

 

1998-2001       Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration

                        Assistant Professor

 

1995-1998       University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

                        Assistant Professor

 

 

Education

 

1996                University of California, Berkeley

                        Walter A. Haas School of Business

                        Ph.D. degree in Business Administration

                        Concentrations: Business and Public Policy

                       

1992                M.A. degree in Economics

                        Concentration:  Industrial Organization

 

1990                                Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alfred P. Sloan School of Management

S.M. degree in Management

Concentrations: Corporate Strategy; Applied Economics; Marketing

 

1985                Harvard College

                        A.B. degree magna cum laude in Economics

 

 

 

Journal Articles

 

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.

 

Argyres, N.S. and B.S. Silverman (2004), “R&D, Organization Structure, and the Development of Corporate Technological Knowledge,” Strategic Management Journal, 25(8-9): 929-958.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 U.S. Trucking Industry,” Strategic Management Journal 18(Summer), pp. 31-52.

 

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 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers).

 

 

Books and Book Chapters

 

Oxley, J.E. and B.S. Silverman (2007), “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).

 

Silverman, B.S. (2002), Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification (London: Taylor & Francis Books Ltd.).

 

Ingram, P. and B.S. Silverman (co-editors) (2002), The New Institutionalism in Strategic Management - Advances in Strategic Management, (Oxford UK: JAI 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 (London: Elsevier Science).

 

Silverman, B.S. (2001), “Organizational Economics,” in J.A.C. Baum (editor), Blackwell Companion to Organizations (Boston MA: Blackwell Publishing).

 

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 (Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

 

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 (New York: Quorum Press).

 

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

 

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 Canada.

 

1999, “Don’t Go it Alone: Alliances, Networks, and Startup Performance in Canadian Biotechnology,” in Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (Saint John, NB), June, with J.A.C. Baum and T. Calabrese.

 

1998, “Economic Performance, Strategic Position, and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressure among U.S. Interstate Motor Carriers,” in Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (Saskatoon, SK: ASAC), June, with J.A. Nickerson.  Honourable Mention Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

 

1998, “Alliances, Patents, and Competitive Dynamics in Canadian Biotechnology,” in Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (Saskatoon, SK: ASAC), June, with J.A.C. Baum.

 

1997, “Profitability, Transactional Alignment, and Organizational Mortality in the U.S. Trucking Industry,” in Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (St. Johns, NF: ASAC), June, with J.A. Nickerson and J. Freeman.  Best Paper Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

 

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 Canada (St. Johns, NF: ASAC), June, with J.A. Nickerson.  Honourable Mention Award of Excellence, Policy Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

 

1997, “Diversification, Mode of Entry, and Survival for Foreign vs. Domestic Expansion:  Are There Really Differences?” in Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (St. Johns, NF: ASAC), June. 

 

1996, “Exploitation of Technical Assets and the Direction of Corporate Diversification,” in Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (Montreal: ASAC), May.  Best Paper Award of Excellence, Policy Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

 

1996, “Technological Complementarity, Technological Overlap, and Interfirm Cooperation,” in Proceedings, Conference on Management of Intellectual Capital, McMaster University (Hamilton: McMaster University), January, with D.C. Mowery and J.E. Oxley.

 

1996, “Technical Resources and the Direction of Corporate Diversification,” in Proceedings, Conference on Management of Intellectual Capital, McMaster University (Hamilton: McMaster University), January.

 

 

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,” Academy of Management Review, 27(2): 311-313.

 

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 (Toronto: Contact International).

 

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.

 

 

Cases

 

“Accrue Software, Inc.” Harvard Business School Case #9-701-057.

 

“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,” Harvard Business School Case #9-701-056, with B. Huntsberger.

 

Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (A),” Harvard Business School Case #9-701-124, with B. Huntsberger.

 

Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (B),” Harvard Business School Case #9-701-125, with B. Huntsberger.

 

Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (C),” Harvard Business School Case #9-701-126, with B. Huntsberger.

 

“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 .

 

 

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.

 

Tzabbar, D.A., B.S. Silverman, and B.S. Aharonson, “Learning By Hiring or Hiring to Avoid Learning? Organizational Exploration via Individuals’ Exploitation,” Working Paper, University of Toronto.

 

McGahan, A.M. and B.S. Silverman, “Corporate Strategy and the Value of Innovation:  The Stock Market’s Valuation of Patents as a Function of Appropriability and Corporate Scope.”

 

Argyres, N.S. and B.S. Silverman, “Formal R&D Organization, Informal R&D Organization, and the Evolution of Corporate Technological Knowledge.”

 

 

Academic Presentations

 

2006, “Lateral Dominance and Fringe Benefits: Strategic Dynamics between Dominant and Fringe Firms” (with J.M. de Figueiredo)

            Presented at the DRUID Summer Conference, Copenhagen, June.

            Presented at the Conference to honor Michael Gort, St. Louis, June.

            Presented at INSEAD Singapore, March.

            Presented at National University Singapore, March.

            Presented at University of Minnesota, March.

 

2005, “Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Devalued – Alliance Announcements and Abnormal Returns Experienced by Allying Firms’

Rivals” (with J.E. Oxley)

            Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual meetings, Barcelona, September.

Presented at the Alliance Edge Conference, Toronto, September.

            Presented at the Academy of Management annual meeting, Honolulu, August.

 

2005, “Learning By Hiring or Hiring to Avoid Learning? Organizational Exploration via Individuals’ Exploitation.” (with D.A. Tzabbar and B.S. Aharonson).

            Presented at the Academy of Management annual meeting, Honolulu, August.

            Presented at H.E.C., Paris, May.

            Presented at Université de Paris XI, May.

            Presented at the University of Texas, Austin, April.

            Presented at the Wharton School, March.

 

2005, “Firm Value Depends on Innovation by Competitors” (with A.M. McGahan).

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.

Presented at the American Law and Economics Association annual meeting, Toronto, September 2003.

Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual meeting, Cambridge MA, September 2002.

Presented at the NBER Summer Institute meetings, Cambridge MA, July 2002.

Presented at the Strategy Research Forum, Baltimore, May 2002.

Presented at the IIB Roundtable, University of Toronto, November 2001.

Presented at the Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, November 2001.

 

2004, “Endogenous Cost Lobbying with Retrospective Voters.” (with J.M. de Figueiredo)

            Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual meetings, Tucson AZ, October.

 

2004, “Research Consortia and the Diffusion of Technological Knowledge: Insights from SEMATECH.” (with A.Ziedonis and R.H. Ziedonis)

            Presented at the International Society of New Institutional Economics annual meetings, Tuscon AZ, October.

 

2003, “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 University of California, Los Angeles, November.

Presented at University of Southern California, November.

Presented at Tilburg University, October.

Presented at INSEAD, March. 

Presented at ATOM - Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, March. 

Presented at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, February. 

Presented at the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, January.

 

2003, “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.

 

2002, “R&D, Organization Structure, and the Development of Corporate Technological Knowledge.” (with N.S. Argyres)

Presented at the SMJ Special Issue Conference, Pittsburgh, October.

 

2002, “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, Paris, September.

 

2001, “An Economist’s Confusion About Status: Partner Selection and Rent Seeking in Interorganizational Relationships.”

Presented at the Academy of Management national meetings, Washington DC, August.

 

2001, “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 the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, April.

Presented at the Goizueta School of Business, Emory University, November 2000.

Presented at the Stern School of Business, New York University, October 2000.

Presented at the Boston University School of Management, October 2000.

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, San Diego, CA, July 2000.

Presented at the Strategy Research Forum, Cohasset MA, May 2000.

 

2001, “Core Technology, Peripheral Technology, and Corporate Diversification.”

Presented at the American Economic Association annual conference, New Orleans, January.

Presented at the Academy of Management national meetings, Toronto, August 2000.

 

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. Nominated for McKinsey/SMS 

     Best Conference Paper Prize.

 

2000, “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. Nominated for McKinsey/SMS

Best Conference Paper Prize.

Presented at the International Society for New Institutional Economics annual meeting, Wash DC, September 1999.

Presented at the Academy of Management national meetings, Chicago, August 1999 (with J.A. Nickerson).

 

2000, “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.

Presented at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, May 1999. 

Presented at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, December 1998.

 

1999, “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, “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 John, NB, June. 

 

1999, “The Impact of Incumbents’ Patenting and Technological Alliances on the Founding of Canadian Biotech Firms, 1991-1997.” (with T. Calabrese and J.A.C. Baum)

Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, Saint John, NB, June.

 

1998, “Alliance- and Patent-based Competitive Dynamics in the Canadian Biotechnology Industry.” (with J.A.C. Baum)

Presented at the Academy of Management, San Diego, August.

Presented at the Strategic Management Society, Ft. Lauderdale, November.

 

1998, “Economic Performance, Strategic Position, and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressures among U.S. Interstate Motor Carriers.” (with J.A. Nickerson)

Presented at the Academy of Management, San Diego, August.

Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, Saskatoon, SK, June.

 

1998, “Alliances, Patents, and Competitive Dynamics in Canadian Biotechnology.” (with J.A.C. Baum)

Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, Saskatoon, SK, June.

Presented at the INFORMS Spring Conference, Organization Science session, Montreal, April.

 

1997, “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. 

Presented at the University of Michigan Business School, April.

 

1997, “Integrating Competitive Strategy and Transaction Cost Economics: An Operationalization of Fit in the Interstate Trucking Industry.” (with J.A. Nickerson)

Presented at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, November.

Presented at the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, November.

Presented at the University of Michigan Business School, November. 

Presented at the Academy of Management, Boston, August.

 

1997, “Transaction Interdependence:  Firm Heterogeneity within Transaction Cost Economics.” (with J.A. Nickerson)

Presented at the INFORMS Fall Conference, Organization Science session, Dallas, October. 

Presented at the Academy of Management, Boston, August.

 

1997, “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, Montreal, August. 

Presented at the Academy of Management, Boston, August.

 

1997, “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.

Presented at the Strategic Management Journal Special Issue Conference, October 1996.

 

1997, “Strategy and Structure: The Choice of the Employment Relation in the Interstate For-Hire Trucking Industry.” (with J.A. Nickerson)  

Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada national meetings, St. Johns, NF, June.

 

1997, “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, “Interorganizational Technology Transfer: Evidence from SEMATECH.” (with D.C. Mowery)

Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference, St. Johns, NF, June.

 

1996, “Transactional Interdependencies and the Employment Relation: The Case of For-Hire Trucking.” (with J.A. Nickerson)

Presented at the Southern Economic Association, Washington DC, November.

 

1996, “Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer.” (with D.C. Mowery and J.E. Oxley)

Presented at the Strategic Management Society Conference, Phoenix, AZ, November.

Presented at the HEC Conference on Transatlantic Management, Montreal, QU, November.

 

1996, “Exploitation of Technical Assets and the Direction of Corporate Diversification.”

Presented at the Academy of Management, Cincinnati, OH, August.

Presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Montreal, QU, May.

Presented at the McMaster Conference on Management of Intellectual Capital, Hamilton, ON, January.

 

1996, “Estimating the Effects of Research Consortia: The Case of SEMATECH.” (with D.C. Mowery)

Presented at the Academy of Management, Cincinnati, OH, August 1996.

 

1996, “Domestic vs. International Expansion: Are They Really Different?”

Presented at the CIBER Conference on Longitudinal Research on Foreign Market Entry, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, April.

 

1996, “Technological Complementarity, Technological Overlap, and Interfirm Cooperation.” (with D.C. Mowery and J.E. Oxley)

Presented at the McMaster Conference on Management of Intellectual Capital, Hamilton, ON, January.

 

 

Teaching Experience: Courses Taught

 

            University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

                        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)

                        Received “Best Professor” award from 1st-year M.B.A. class, 1997

                        Received “Best Professor” award from 2nd-year M.B.A. class, 2003

            Runner-up, “Best Professor” award from 2nd-year M.B.A. class, 2002

 

            Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration

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.)

 

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School [Graduate Student Instructor]

                        Social and Political Environment of Business (Undergraduate)

                        Received “Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor” award, 1992

 

 

Doctoral Student Supervision

 

Dean Hennessy, Strategic Management, Dissertation Chair

Barak Aharonson, Strategic Management, Dissertation Chair

 

Maria Fonseca, Center for Industrial Relations, Dissertation Committee

Eytan Lasry, Strategic Management, Dissertation Committee

Ranjita Singh, Strategic Management, Dissertation Committee

Daniel Tzabbar, Organizational Behavior, Dissertation Committee

Herman van den Berg, Faculty of Information Systems, Dissertation Committee

 

 

Grants Received

 

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 Boston University is co-investigator.

 

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, Connaught Competitive Grant, for “Diversification and Joint Venture Formation as Alternative Mechanisms for Accessing and Exploiting Resources,” 1 year, $10,000 CDN

 

 

Industry Experience

 

1995-2000       ICM Group                                                                               Menlo Park, CA

Founder and Affiliate, management consulting firm specializing in intellectual capital management.

 

1991-1995       Law and Economics Consulting Group                                      Berkeley, CA

                        Research Associate, economic and litigation consulting firm.

 

summer 1991   EconomInc                                                                                      Berkeley, CA

                        Research Associate, economic consulting firm.

 

summer 1989   Dunlop Tire Corporation                                                       Grand Island, NY

1990-1991       Marketing intern, special projects.  Subsequently performed intermittent consulting services in marketing strategy.

 

1986-1988       Temple, Barker & Sloane, Inc.                                                  Lexington, MA

                        Research Associate, strategic and general management consulting firm.

                        [Note:  Now called Mercer Management Consulting]

 

1985-1986       Nutter, McClennen and Fish, P.C.                                                 Boston, MA

                        Legal Assistant, corporate practice division.

 

 

Awards and Honors

 

2003                Professor of the Year, University of Toronto, 2nd-year M.B.A. class

2002                Runner-up, Best Professor, University of Toronto, 2nd-year M.B.A. class

2001                Named “Noted Alliance Expert” by Corporate Strategy Board, Washington DC

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 Canada

1998                Honourable Mention Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division,

   Administrative Sciences Association of Canada

1997                Best Paper Award of Excellence, Organization Theory Division,

                           Adminstrative Sciences Association of Canada

1997                Honourable Mention Award of Excellence, Policy Division, Administrative

   Sciences Association of Canada

1997                Finalist, Best Dissertation, Business Policy & Strategy Division, Academy of

   Management

1997                Best Professor, University of Toronto 1st-Year MBA class

1996                Best Paper Award of Excellence, Policy Division, Administrative Sciences

   Association of Canada

1994                Henry K. Hayase Award, Haas School of Business, University of California,

   Berkeley

1992                Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Haas School of Business,  

   University of California, Berkeley

1991                Bradley Fellowship, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

1982-85           Dean’s List, Harvard University

1982-84           Harvard Honorary Scholarship, Harvard University

 

 

Activities and Associations

 

Board member, International Society of New Institutional Economics, 2007-

Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2005-

Editorial Board, Organization Science, 2006-

Editorial Board, Strategic Organization, 2001-

Advisory Editor, Research Policy, 2006-

Departmental Editor, Journal of International Business Studies, 2002-2006

Editorial Board, Academy of Management Review, 2002-2005

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 Canada, 2000

Program Chair, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 1999 National Meeting:

Technology and Innovation Management special interest group

Academic Reviewer, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 1998 National Meeting:

Technology and Innovation Management special interest group

 

Member, Academy of Management: Business Policy & Strategy, Technology & Innovation Management, and Organization Management & Theory subdivisions

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, Academy of Management Journal

      Administrative Science Quarterly

      California Management Review

      Economics of Innovation and Technological Change

      Industrial and Corporate Change

      Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

                              Journal of Economics, Behavior and Organization

      Journal of Law, Economics and Organization

      Management Science

                  Research Policy

      Strategic Management Journal

 

Reviewer, SSHRC Grant Proposals