Governance

Peter A. Bamberger (PhD Cornell University) is the Domberger Professor of Management at the Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University and Research Director of Cornell University’s Smithers institute. His research examines compensation strategy, interpersonal behavior in teams, and employee wellbeing. Author of several books including Human Resource Strategy (Sage, 2000; Routledge, 2014), Mutual Aid and Union Renewal (Cornell Univ. Press, 2001), and Exposing Pay: How Pay Transparency and Disclosure Impacts Employees, Employers and the Societies in Which We Live (Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming), Bamberger has published over 120 refereed journal articles.

An elected fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management, he served as an associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal (2007-2010) and founding associate editor and then editor-in-chief of Academy of Management Discoveries (2012-2020). He currently serves as an officer of the Academy of Management’s Board of Governors.

Christopher L. Tucci is Professor of Digital Strategy & Innovation at Imperial College Business School, where he directs the Centre for Digital Transformation and is co-Director of I-X, a new campus concept for Imperial College London on AI, data, and digital topics.  Professor Tucci held the Chair in Corporate Strategy and Innovation from 2003-2020 at EPFL and was Dean of the College of Management there from 2013-2018. In 2018, he was Visiting Thought Leader at CEIBS in Shanghai, China.  He received the degrees of Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, MIT; SM (Technology & Policy) from MIT; and BS (Mathematical Sciences), AB (Music), and MS (Computer Science) from Stanford University. He was an industrial computer scientist involved in developing Internet protocols and applying artificial intelligence tools in the 1980s. Professor Tucci teaches courses in Co-Creation in AI, Deep Tech Acceleration, Design Thinking, Digital Strategy, AI Ventures, and Innovation Management. His primary area of interest is in how organizations of all kinds make transitions to new business models, technologies, and organizational forms. He also studies crowdsourcing and digital innovations.  He has published articles in, among others, Academy of Management Review (AMR), SMJ, Management Science, Research Policy, Communications of the ACM, SEJ, Academy of Management Annals, and JPIM.  His article with Allan Afuah, “Crowdsourcing as solution to distant search,” won the Best Paper of 2012, Best Practice Implications Award of 2019, and the Decade Award of 2022 for AMR.  He has served in leadership positions in the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. Full CV is available here.

Deanne N. Den Hartog is Full professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Amsterdam Business School (ABS). She also is the director of the Research Institute and heads the Leadership and Management section at the Amsterdam Business School. She holds a PhD from VU university in Amsterdam. Deanne is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.

Her research and publications focus on Leadership, e.g., cross-cultural, (un)ethical and charismatic leadership, and Organizational Behavior (OB), e.g., individuals’ proactive, innovative, and cooperative behavior at work. She also studies HRM, (the dark side of) personality, culture, trust, proactivity, well-being, and teams. Results of her research have been published in high quality academic journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and The Leadership Quarterly. Deanne served on the editorial committee for Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior and was associate editor of among others Applied Psychology: An International Review and member of many editorial boards.

Deanne previously served as elected Representative-at-Large of the Board of Governors for the Academy of Management and of the Academy of Management’s OB Division Executive Committee. Among other roles, she also served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), she was member of the Board of Governors or the GLOBE foundation and, she also served on the Societal Impact taskforce for European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, and she served on program and advisory committees for large international conferences. She also served on boards of Dutch associations such as the Dutch HRM network and the board of the Netherlands foundation for Management Development.

Javier Gimeno is Professor of Strategy and the Aon Dirk Verbeek Chair in International Risk and Strategic Management at INSEAD’s Europe campus in France.. A Spanish national and a cosmopolitan, he earned a Licentiate degree from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a PhD in strategic management from Purdue University. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M and at INSEAD since 2001, where he teaches strategy in degree and executive programs. He has also been a visiting scholar at Wharton, HBS, and CEIBS.

Javier’s research focuses on competitive strategy, competitive dynamics, and entrepreneurship, and has been published in management journals such as AMJ, ASQ, OS and SMJ. His research won the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the AOM’s Strategy division, the IDEA Foundational Paper Award from the Entrepreneurship division, and the Blackrock/NACD Best Paper Award, among other research awards. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and has served as Senior Editor of Organization Science and Strategy Science.

Javier has a long track record of school and professional service. At INSEAD, he has served as Dean of Faculty, Academic Director of the PhD program, Dean of the Executive MBA, Area Chair, and other roles. At the Academy of Management, Javier served as program and division chair at STR in the early 2000s, as a member of the AOM Board of Governors in the late 2000s, and has been on multiple award committees. At the Strategic Management Society, he chaired the SMS annual conference, was a member of the SMS Board of Directors during the 2010s, most recently serving as President of the Society.

Janet Bercovitz joined the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder in Fall 2017 as Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and was named the Deming Professor of Entrepreneurship in 2019. She previously taught at the Geis College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Professor Bercovitz’s research program consists of two main research streams. The first concentrates on extending understanding of academic entrepreneurship, university-industry technology transfer and technology commercialization. The second stream focuses on issues of organizational structure and inter-organizational contractual relationships. Her research has been published in major journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Strategy Science, and Research Policy.

Professor Bercovitz served on the 5-year leadership team for the TIM (Technology and Innovation Management) Division of the Academy of Management completing her term in August 2023. She has also served on the SMS Cooperative Strategies Interest Group and as Treasurer for the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE). She currently serves on the editorial review boards of Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science and Research Policy and has previously served terms on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Organization Science.

Janet holds a B.S. degree in chemistry, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Russell Coff is the Thomas J. Falk Distinguished Chair in Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has over 25 refereed journal articles and more than 11,000 citations. His research explores the role of human capital in innovation, creativity, and ultimately, in competitive advantage. Coff’s work spans micro and macro topics ranging from workers’ perceptions of their knowledge and skills to the structure of M&A deals where people are the target’s most valuable resource. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA and has previously been a faculty member at Emory and Washington Universities.

Professor Coff has also served the scholarly community in a variety of leadership roles. He is currently a Senior Editor at Strategy Science and has served on multiple editorial boards including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization (where he was also a Co-Editor).

Coff has been very active in the leadership of professional associations. At the Academy of Management, he chaired the Business Policy and Strategy Division (now STR) and was a member of the AoM Division and Interest Group Review committee (DIGR). He is a Past President of the Strategic Management Society and the founding chair of the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group.

At his home institution, Professor Coff currently chairs the Management and Human Resources Department and is Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration. Previously he was Acting Dean, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, and Director of the INSITE Entrepreneurship center.

Peer C. Fiss is the Jill and Frank Fertitta Chair and Professor of Management & Organization and Sociology (by courtesy) at the University of Southern California. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of organization theory, strategy, and methodology, but he has also published in sociology, political science, and information systems. His early work focused the diffusion and adaptation of organizational innovations and how accounts that “frame” and justify such innovations are constructed. More recently, his research has examined how social categorization, including categorization based on race and gender, affects and shapes markets and life outcomes. Peer has also been working for almost two decades on the use of set-analytic methods in the social sciences, and specifically on the use of set-fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). His work has been published in book form and in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Strategic Organization, and the Strategic Management Journal, among others. Peer is a former chair of the OMT Division and has served as Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and as Senior Editor for Organization Science. At USC he has received multiple teaching and mentoring awards, including the 2020 Marshall PhD Mentoring award. Peer received his PhD jointly in Management & Organization and Sociology from Northwestern University in 2003.