IAM Colleagues,
INSEAD and IESE, in collaboration with the European Doctoral Education Network (EDEN) are organising a Doctoral Seminar on Advanced Strategic Management at INSEAD Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France (just outside Paris). The seminar will take place on October 19-23. It is open to doctoral students from all over the world.
The seminar, delivered by internationally renowned scholars, will emphasise some advanced methods, including formal models of competitive advantage and statistical techniques for causal inference, as well as frontier ideas on topics such as competitive dynamics, business models, industry evolution, strategy in platform markets and ecosystems, innovation and productivity. Please see below for the list of faculty and more detail on the topics covered.
We think this seminar will be very useful for doctoral students in strategy, innovation, and strategic entrepreneurship at their mid-stage (preferably 2nd or 3rd year, but could be later) who want to develop skills at the frontier of the field.
The deadline for application is September 15. We still have some available seats. If you think that some students in your PhD programme could benefit from this, please don't hesitate to share this opportunity with them.
Thank you!
Javier
EDEN ADVANCED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT DOCTORAL SEMINAR
WHEN: OCTOBER 19-23, 2015
WHERE: INSEAD Europe campus, Fontainebleau, France
APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 15th
The EDEN Advanced Strategic Management Doctoral Seminar is co-organized by INSEAD and IESE and will take place from October 19-23, 2015 in Fontainebleau at INSEAD's Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France (just outside Paris).
Internationally renowned scholars in the Management and Strategy field from Europe and North America will teach this intensive weeklong doctoral seminar. Topics covered in the Seminar will range from formal theoretical modeling of competitive advantage to latest empirical methodologies for strategy research, and a particular focus on innovation and competition within industries. The seminar will have a multi-disciplinary focus, with strong links to economics and entrepreneurship.
The target audience is doctoral students from all over the world, preferably in their second or third year of study, who have covered the basic Management and Strategy courses at their institution and are actively developing their own research questions in the Strategy field.
The week will consist of lectures, discussions, and presentations and aims at bringing the participants up to speed regarding the state of the art in Strategic Management research.
Faculty Panelists:
Rajshree Agarwal (University of Maryland, USA)
Victor Bennett (Duke University, USA)
Bruno Cassiman (IESE, Barcelona, Spain)
Olivier Chatain (HEC, France)
Javier Gimeno (INSEAD, France)
Tobias Kretschmer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany)
Govert Vroom (IESE, Barcelona, Spain)
Monday, October 19 morning: Javier Gimeno (INSEAD)
Topic: "Frontiers of Competitive Dynamics"
Theoretical traditions of competitive dynamics: long- vs. short-run competitive interactions
Strategic and organizational antecedents of competitive behavior
Methodological issues on competitive dynamics research
Monday, October 19 afternoon: Govert Vroom (IESE)
Topic: "Competing through Business Models"
Defining the Business Model concept
Competition among business models
Business Model diversification
Tuesday, October 20: Victor Bennett (Duke University)
Topic: "Topics on Inference (Causal and Otherwise)"
In this session we will explore the relationships between some familiar econometric techniques and discuss their role in inferring the usefulness of our models; whether those models predict causal relationships or simply behaviors appearing together. The session is geared towards students who have seen the techniques before, but are looking to get a deeper understanding of their functions and relatedness. We will likely cover Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT), Matching and re-weighting models, OLS with controls, fixed and random effects, differences-in-differences, regression discontinuity, and instrumental variables. The Importance and Challenges of Causal Inference
Wednesday, October 21: Olivier Chatain (HEC)
Topic: "Value-Based Strategy"
1. Foundations
o Background: different meanings of "competition"
o Basic coalitional games results
2. Key results of the value-based approach
o Added value and profitability
o Buyer-supplier relationships
4. Empirical applications
Thursday, October 22 morning: Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich)
Topic: "Strategy and Outcomes in Platform Markets and Ecosystems"
Thursday, October 22 afternoon: Rajshree Agarwal (U. of Maryland)
Topic: "Industry Evolution: Implications for Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
Industries evolution is characterized by entry and exit of heterogeneous firms. Innovation and entrepreneurship is a critical driver of which types of firms enter, what capabilities they bring with them and how they evolve and perform. These entrepreneurial processes also shape industry dynamics and regional advantage. To understand these issues, the session is organized around four questions:
What are the systematic trends and patterns of key variables over the industry life cycle?
Where do capabilities come from, and why does it matter for industry evolution?
What are the consequences of capability differentials for performance over the industry life cycle?
How does the knowledge context from which new ventures originate shape firm formation, relationship with established firms, and performance, with implications for industry evolution?
Friday, October 23: Bruno Cassiman (IESE)
Topic: "Innovation Strategy and Productivity"
Firm Decisions and Productivity
o In these sessions I propose to explore the connection between the enormous "productivity literature" in the area of economics and interesting applications and extensions of this knowledge and body of work relevant to the field of the management and strategy. I believe there are interesting bridges between these two fields to be built.
Profiting from Innovation
o Innovation is becoming central to the strategy of firms in order to secure a sustainable competitive advantage. In these sessions we attempt to uncover fundamental drivers of a firm's incentive to innovate. The readings for this session present some empirical regularities on this relation while the theoretical papers present a formal theory (or contrast different theories) of what might be underlying this incentive. The seminar consists in understanding the potential drivers of innovation, learning the existing theories and discussing how well these theories match the empirical findings of this multifaceted phenomenon.
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Javier Gimeno
Aon Dirk Verbeek Chair in International Risk and Strategic Management
Professor of Strategy
INSEAD
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