Governance

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.

Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS, is Associate Dean for Health Services Research, Distinguished Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and Executive Director of CATALYST, the Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking in Health Services and Implementation Science Research in the College of Medicine (COM) at The Ohio State University (OSU).. She has over 30 years of health services research experience during which she has been actively involved in both performing research and disseminating research results to academic and practitioner audiences. Dr. McAlearney is internationally known for her expertise in both qualitative and mixed methods analyses, and has been continuously funded for over 25 years. She has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, 11 books/edited books and over 100 book chapters.

Her ongoing research focuses on information technology innovations in health care, leadership and organizational development, healthcare delivery improvement, and management and implementation science. Dr. McAlearney strongly believes that developing others is a primary goal of her role as a senior faculty member and has recruited and trained more than 20 postdoctoral fellows as well as over 50 junior faculty in health services and management science research. The vast majority of these fellows have gone on to successful careers in academic positions, while the faculty have consistently developed and advanced their teaching and independent research programs as well as obtained extramural funding for their work.

Dr. McAlearney received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University’s School of Public Health.

dt ogilvie (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin) is a Research Fellow at the Center for Black Entrepreneurship at Morehouse College. She is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emerita at Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, and former Distinguished Professor of Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development. Prior to RIT, she was Professor of Business Strategy & Urban Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School and Associate Provost and CIO of Rutgers-Newark. She is a Fellow of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development at Rutgers, an IC2 Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, and a Thought Leader Advisor at the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University.

ogilvie has published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Cities, Leadership Quarterly, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Journal of Business Research, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, among other journals. She received research awards for both her published and conference papers. She co-authored the book, Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process.

ogilvie has reviewed for STR, DEI, TIMS, MOC, ENT, AFAM, and OB, served on AOM’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Leadership in Management Education for the 21st Century, served two non-consecutive terms on the Executive Board of GDO, served on several AOM committees: Initiative for the Advancement of Civic Engagement and Community-based Learning, People of Color, OBNews Redesign, and International Programs. She was President of the AOM Council and President of the Eastern Academy of Management.

Rebecca R. Kehoe (PhD, Cornell University) is a Professor and Department Chair in Human Resource Studies at the ILR School at Cornell University. She previously served on the faculty of Rutgers University. She teaches courses in human resource management and business strategy.
Kehoe’s research focuses on questions related to human resource-based competitive advantage. Within the realm of strategic human resource management, she studies strategic alignment in firms’ HR investments and the role of line managers in the design, adaptation, and delivery of HR practices. In her research focusing on human capital, she studies the impacts of star performers on their peers and organizations and the conditions that shape employee transitions between jobs and organizations in an era of increased mobility. Kehoe’s research has appeared in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, ILR Review, and Academy of Management Perspectives. Her work has been covered in media outlets such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes. She has won several awards for her scholarship, including the Journal of Management Impact Award, Emerald Citations of Excellence, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence.
Outside of her teaching and research, Kehoe has served on the leadership track and executive committee of the Human Resource Division of the Academy of Management (AOM). She has also served on the leadership track and as a representative-at-large for the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). She is a former Associate Editor at Personnel Psychology.

Fernando F. Suarez is the Jean C. Tempel Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, and the former Chair of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Department (2016-2023). .Prior to this, founded the Strategy and Innovation Department at Boston University and served as its Chair from 2008 to 2013. He has also held faculty positions at the London Business School (UK), MIT Sloan School (USA), Hitotsubashi University (Japan), SKEMA Business School (France), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and ESE Business School (Chile). Prof. Suarez holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Master’s in Regional Planning from MIT, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chile.

His widely cited research (10,000+ Google Scholar citations) spans the areas of innovation and technology strategy, entry timing strategies, standards & dominant designs, industry evolution, categorical dynamics, platform competition, entrepreneurship, and the role of services in product firms. His publications have appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Management, and others, as well as in top practitioner-oriented publications such as Harvard Business Review. He serves in the Editorial Boards of Academy of Management Review and Organization Science. Prof. Suarez’ teaches at the master’s and doctoral levels on topics directly related to his research and business experience. He regularly conducts executive education programs for C-suite executives of major corporations. Prof. Suarez has also been active in both institutional and private entrepreneurial activities.

Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Chair of Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Carson College of Business, Washington State University, USA. Professor Suddaby also holds adjunct positions at IAE Business School, Argentina, Ritsumeikan University, Japan and the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. His research focuses on the critical role of symbolic resources—legitimacy, authenticity, identity and history—in processes of entrepreneurial change and innovation. Roy is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and is a past Editor of the Academy of Management Review.

Laszlo Tihanyi is the William Alexander Kirkland Professor of Strategic Management in the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, where he serves as the Coordinator and Ph.D. Advisor of the Strategy and Environment Area. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. Prior to joining Rice, he was the Roberts Chair in Business at Texas A&M University. He held visiting positions at Duke University, Indiana University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the University of Groningen, and the University of Melbourne.

Laszlo’s current research explores the involvement of institutional investors in foreign direct investment, the institutional environment of internationalization decisions, and the effects of social movements on multinational firms. His papers have been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and others.

Laszlo has been active in the International Management, Organization and Management Theory, and Strategic Management Divisions. He served as Associate Editor (2014-2016) and Editor (2020-2022) of the Academy of Management Journal. Following his AMJ editorial service, he joined the Content Portfolio Committee of the AOM Board of Governors, as Editor Liaison.

In addition to his involvement with the AOM divisions and AMJ, Laszlo has volunteered to serve the field in different roles. He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Studies (2008-2010) and Co-Editor of the Advances of International Management series (2009-2017). In the Strategic Management Society, he is currently Co-Director of the SMS Annual Conference Best Paper Prize competition. Previously, he served as Co-Director of the Annual Conference Ph.D. Paper Prize competition and Chair of the Corporate Strategy Interest Group.