Impact
Awards & Honors
- Mark DesJardine: Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor, Poets&Quants (2024); Emerging Scholar Award, Strategic Management Society; Emerging Scholar Award, Academy of Management, ONE Division; Emerging Scholar Award, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability; Governor General’s Gold Medal Award, Office of the Governor General of Canada; Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award, Academy of Management
- Giovanni Gavetti: Best Paper Award, Strategy Science (2022); Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize, Strategic Management Journal (2015); Tuck Class of 2011 Award for Teaching Excellence (2014)
- Vijay Govindarajan: HBR McKinsey Award for Best Article Published in Harvard Business Review (2010, 2015); Best Article Award, Strategic Management Society (2017); Strategic Management Society Fellow (2015); Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame for Lifetime Contribution to Management Theory and Practice (2019); Thinkers 50 Innovation Award (2019); Thinkers 50 Breakthrough Innovation Award (2011)
- Constance Helfat: Distinguished Scholar Award, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management; Fellow of the Academy of Management; Fellow of the Strategic Management Society; Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize, Strategic Management Journal (20220
Academic Leadership
- Mark DesJardine: Chair, Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group of SMS; Treasurer and Director, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability; Senior Fellow, Wharton ESG Analytics Lab
- Giovanni Gavetti: Senior Editor, Strategy Science (2014–2022); Special Issue Co-editor, Strategy Science, “Where Do Great Strategies Come From?”; Senior Editor, Organization Science (2012–2020); Associate Editor, Industrial and Corporate Change (2005–present)
- Constance Helfat: Board of Directors, Strategic Management Society (2022–2024); Consulting Editor, Strategic Management Journal (2021–present); Co-editor, Strategic Management Journal (2013–2020); Special Issue Co-editor, Strategic Management Journal, Special Issue on the Resource-Based View of the Firm (2023)
- Hart Posen: Associate Editor, Strategic Management Journal (2021–present); Associate Editor, Management Science (2014–2018)
Recent Papers
- Mark DesJardine: “How to Respond to Shareholder Activism”, Harvard Business Review (2024); “Shareholder Activism Research: A System-Level View”, with Kevin Chuah, Maria Goranova, and Witold Henisz, Academy of Management Annals (2023); “The Downside of Displaying Agentic Values: Evidence from Shareholder Activism”, with Wei Shi, Organization Science (2023); “Different Horizons: The Effects of Hedge Fund Activism versus Corporate Shareholder Activism on Strategic Actions”, with Wei Shi and Zhihui Sun, Journal of Management (2022)
- Giovanni Gavetti: “Pankaj Ghemawat’s Commitment and the Job of the Strategist”, with Joe Porac, Strategy Science (2022); “Bias Busters: Don’t Steer Your Strategy by the Wrong Star”, with Dan Lovallo, Martin Huber, and Magdalena Smith, McKinsey Quarterly (2021); “A Neo-Carnegie Approach to the Agency Question: Bridging the Evolutionary and Cognitive Views of Strategy”, with Ramon Lecuona Torras, Strategy Science (2021)
- Vijay Govindarajan: Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI will Power the Industrial Future, HBR Press (2024); “When Heavy Machinery Meets AI”, Harvard Business Review(2024); “Products That Grow”, Harvard Business Review (2024); “The Next Great Digital Advantage”, Harvard Business Review (2022); “Becoming a Better Corporate Citizen: How PepsiCo Moved Toward A Healthier Future”, with Indra Nooyi, Harvard Business Review(2020)
- Constance Helfat: “Resource Allocation Capability and Routines in Multibusiness Firms”, with Catherine Maritan, Organization Science (2024); “Renewing the Resource-based View: New Contexts, New Concepts, and New Methods”, with Aseem Kaul, David Ketchen, Jay Barney, Olivier Chatain, and Harbir Singh, Strategic Management Journal (2023); “Strategic Organization, Dynamic Capabilities, and the External Environment”, Strategic Organization (2022); “Transferring Knowledge by Transferring Individuals: Innovative Technology Use and Organizational Performance in Multiunit Firms”, with Christian Stadler and Gianmario Verona, Organization Science (2022); “What Does Firm Shaping of Markets Really Mean?”, Strategy Science (2021); “The Economic View of Strategic Management”, Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its Future (2021)
- Hart Posen: “In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches” with Ming zhu Wang, John Chen, and Daniel Elfenbein, Posen, Academy of Management Review (2024); “Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs”, with John Chen, Daniel Elgenbein, and Ming zhu Wang, Academy of Management Review (2024); “Aspirations, Beliefs and a New Idea: Building on March’s Other Model of Performance Feedback”, with Thomas Keil and Maciej Workiewicz, Academy of Management Review (2023); “When Does the Pre-entry Experience of New Entrants Improve Their Performance? A Meta-Analytical Investigation of Critical Moderators”, with Zhi Cao, Organization Science(2023); “Reconceptualizing Imitation: Implications for Dynamic Capabilities, Innovation, and Competitive Advantage”, with Jan-Michael Ross, Brian Wu, Stefano Benigni, and Zhi Cao, Academy of Management Annals (2023)