Cross-disciplinary Seminar Series in

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

This seminar series is a joint effort of faculty members from Logistics Business and Public Policy, Management & Organization, and Finance Departments to encourage intellectual exchange across disciplines.  To be included in email announcements of upcoming seminars, send an email to dfox@rhsmith.umd.edu

VMH = Van Munching Hall   DCR = Dean's Conference Room

SPRING 2008  SEMINARS

Thursday, Feb 7
10:30-12:00
2509 VMH
Matthew S. Bothner
The University of Chicago
Primary Status, Complementary Status, and Capital Acquisition in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry
Thursday, Feb 21
10:30-12:00
2509 VMH
Jeff Furman
Boston University
Climbing Atop The Shoulders Of Giants: The Impact Of Institutions On Cumulative Research
Thursday, Mar 27
10:30-12:00
2509 VMH
Francine Lafontaine
University of Michigan
The Geographical Separation of Ownership and Operations in Service and Retail Businesses: Extent and Outcomes
Thursday, Apr 24
10:30-12:00
2509 VMH
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Harvard Business School
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods
Thursday, May 8
10:30-12:00
2509 VMH
Lori Rosenkopf
Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Balance Within and Across Domains: The Performance Implications of Exploration and Exploitation in Alliances

FALL 2007  SEMINARS

Thursday, Sept 20
1:30-3:00
2570 DCR
Brent Goldfarb, Univ of Maryland Are Angels Preferred Venture Investors?
Thursday, Sept 27
10:30-12:00
1518 VMH
Anita McGahan, Univ of Toronto Firm Capabilities and Expectations About How New Firms Will Evolve
Thursday, Oct 11
10:30-12:00
2505 VMH
Juan Alcacer
Harvard Business School
Global Competitors as Next-Door Neighbors:  Competition and Geographic Co-location in the Semiconductor Industry
Thursday, Oct 18
10:30-12:00
2505 VMH
Lori Rosenkopf
Wharton/UPenn

 
This seminar to be rescheduled Spring 2008
Thursday, Nov 1
10:30-12:00
2505 VMH
Mikolaj Jan Pisorski, Harvard I Am Not On The Market, I Am Here With Friends: Using Online Social Networks To Find  A Job Or A Spouse
Thursday, Nov 15
10:30-12:00
2505 VMH
Jeff Furman, Boston University Climbing Atop The Shoulders Of Giants:  The Impact Of Institutions On Cumulative Research
Thursday, Dec 6
10:30-12:00
2505 VMH
Marvin Lieberman
UCLA
Did First-Mover Advantage Survive the Dot-Com Crash?

SPRING 2007 SEMINARS

March 2
1:30-3:00
VMH 1520
Bernard Yeung
NYU
Big Business Stability and Economic Growth:
Is What’s Good for General Motors Good for America?

 
March 9
1:30-3:00
VMH 2505
Brian Uzzi
Northwestern
The Emergence of Self Organizing Networks: Small Worlds
April 6
1:30-3:00
VMH 2505
Iain Cockburn
Boston University
Entry, Exit and Patenting in the Software Industry

FALL 2006 SEMINARS

Date Speaker Paper Title
Sep 15
 
Mark Zbaracki
Wharton
Pricing Structures and Structuring Price
Oct 6
 
Scott Stern
Northwestern
How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry
Oct 20
 
Jan Rivkin
Harvard
Complex, Networks, and
Knowledge Flow: Simulation and Evidence
Nov 3
 
Constance Helfat
Dartmouth
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION AND DECENTRALIZATION OF INNOVATION ACTIVITY
Nov 10
 
Wesley Cohen
Duke
A View from the Bench: Patents, Licensing and Biomedical Research    paper 1   paper 2
Dec 1
 
Harbir Singh
UPenn Wharton
Determining the Tradeoff between Integration and Autonomy in Technology Acquisitions

SPRING 2006 SEMINARS

Date Speaker Paper Title
Feb 3 Emilio Castilla
MIT
 
Bringing Over-Embeddedness Back in: Assessing the Impact of Venture Capital Funding, Syndication Networks, and Regional Diversity on the Success of Start-Up Companies
Feb 24 Belen Villalonga, Harvard Benefits and costs of control-enhancing mechanisms in U.S. family firms
Mar 17 Myles Shaver
Univ of Minnesota
 
The Benefits of Geographic Sales Diversification: Exporting and Capital Investment
 
Apr 28 Josh Lerner Harvard 
 
Specialization and Success:  Evidence from Venture Capital

FALL 2005 SEMINARS

Date Speaker Paper Title
Sep 30 Steve Klepper, Carnegie Mellon
 
Heritage and Agglomeration: The Akron Tire Cluster Revisited
Oct 7 Will Mitchell
Duke
The Janus Face of Intra-Firm Ties: Group-Wide and Affiliate-Level Innovation by Multi-Business Firms in Taiwan
Oct 21 Mary Tripsas
Harvard
Abandoning Innovation in Emerging Industries
Nov 4 Ashish Arora
Carnegie Mellon
Patent Protection, Complementary Assets, and Firms' Incentives for Technology Licensing

SPRING 2005 SEMINARS

Feb 25

Andy Hargadon
UC Davis

When innovations meet institutions: The role of design in technological revolutions

Mar 11

Augustin Landier

NYU

Financial Contracting with Optimistic Entrepreneurs: Theory and Evidence

Apr 8

Gautam Ahuja

Univ of Michigan

When Atlas Shrugged: 
Pre-emption, Complexity and Division of Labor in a Theory of Appropriability

May 6

Dan Levinthal

UPenn Wharton

Intermediate Selection on a Developmental Journey

May 20

David Hsu

UPenn Wharton

Knowledge Bridging by Biotechnology

Start-ups

All seminars held at the R.H. Smith School of Business, Van Munching Hall.

For information about the series contact Dianne Fox at dfox@rhsmith.umd.edu
Other seminars of interest: Finance Department, Marketing and Management & Organization Department