Conference

Prof Tima Bansal

Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability , Ivey Business School, Western University

Dr. Bansal is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School at Western University (Ontario). She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Hamburg and University of Montreal. She researches the nexus of time (short-termism), space (globalization) and scale (size) in business strategy, in order to advance sustainable development. Her contributions to research and practice have garnered several awards and honours, including Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada and the Academy of Management.

Dr. Bansal has published over 60 peer-reviewed academic journal articles and 2 books on Business and the Natural Environment.  She served as a Deputy Editor (2016-2019), handling the qualitative research portfolio, and as an Associate Editor (2010-2013) for the Academy of Management Journal. She has also sat previously on 10 editorial review boards, including the Academy of Management Review and Strategic Management Journal.

She founded the Network for Business Sustainability (nbs.net) and Ivey’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value, each of which she led for over 15 years. She also founded and continues to lead Innovation North. All of these efforts aim to strengthen research and its ties with practice. She also writes a column for Forbes.com and her research has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, Globe and Mail and The Independent. She has been researching business sustainability since she completed her doctorate in 1996 at the University of Oxford.

Prof Anita M. McGahan

George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society , University of Toronto

Anita M. McGahan is University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society at the University of Toronto.  Professor McGahan is also a Faculty Member and Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University; Senior Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University; and a past President of the Academy of Management.  From 2014 to 2019, she was a faculty member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance.  McGahan’s credits include five books and over 200 articles, case studies, notes and other published material on competitive advantage, industry evolution, and global health. Her current research emphasizes entrepreneurship in the public interest and innovative collaboration between public and private organizations.  She is also pursuing a long-standing interest in how firms overcome industry disruption to achieve breakthrough performance.  The Academy of Management conferred on McGahan its Career Distinguished Educator Award in 2010 for her championship of reform in the core curriculum of Business Schools, and its Career Distinguished Service Award in 2021 for leadership in the Academy and other organizations.  In 2018, McGahan was awarded both the Inaugural Educational Impact Award and, with Michael E. Porter, the Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize from the Strategic Management Society.  With doctoral student Leandro Pongeluppe, she was awarded the Glueck Best Paper Award in 2021 from the Academy of Management.  With former doctoral student Keyvan Vakili, she was awarded the Academy of Management Journal’s Impact Award in 2022.   In 2012 she was elected a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, and in 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. 

Prof David Teece

Professor, Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley

David J. Teece is a Professor at the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the faculty director of the school’s Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital. He has authored over 30 books and 200 scholarly papers, and he is co-editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, and Industrial and Corporate Change, an Oxford University Press Journal. Dr. Teece has received eight honorary doctorates and has been recognized by Royal Honors.

In 2020, Teece was rated #1 worldwide in management by London-based Clarivate and was given “Clarivate Laureate” status in economics (for innovation, entrepreneurship, and competition) in 2021 based on the citations he has received in the scientific literature. In the same year he was saluted as a ‘Distinguished Management Thinker’ by Thinkers50. Google Scholar indicates that he has been cited over 180,000 times.

Teece is identified as the originator (with two of his grad students) of the dynamic capabilities perspective in strategic management. He is also known for the “Teece model,” a framework he developed to assist companies with their technology commercialization strategies and business models. He has a companion framework on Dynamic Competition which is advanced as a better way to shape competition (antitrust) policy around issues of market power and M&A activity.

Dr. Teece in 2010 co-founded Berkeley Research Group, a research and expert services firm with top talent in domains ranging from intellectual property to competition policy to health care analysis and transaction advisory. In 2020 he co-founded Pilatus Capital, a venture capital firm with a technology focus.

Dr. Teece has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University.

Prof Richard Whittington

Professor of Strategic Management, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Richard Whittington is Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is a leader in the field of Strategy-as-Practice and is currently exploring the ‘opening up’ of strategy.  He has recently co-edited with Violetta Splitter and colleagues a special issue of Organization Studies (2023) on Openness as Organizing Principle and is currently co-editing with Julia Hautz and colleagues a special issue of Academy of Management Perspectives on Openness in the Context of Crises. His recent books include Opening Strategy (OUP, 2019), the Handbook of Open Strategy (with David Seidl and Georg von Krogh, CUP, 2019) and Exploring Strategy (with Patrick Regnér, Duncan Angwin, Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes, 13^th edition, Pearson, 2023). Richard has also published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy and the Strategic Management Journal, amongst other journals. He is currently head of the Strategy, Innovation and Marketing group at the Saïd Business School.