This virtual event offer perspectives from three strategy scholars on how teaching and research interact. You'll hear examples of how teaching sparked a research idea or how research is used in teaching from Rahul Kapoor (Wharton), Olga Hawn (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Jeffrey York (Colorado).

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State-owned firms, regulators, sovereign wealth funds and a range of state agencies have surged in importance over the last decade and strategy research is increasingly tackling this critical and challenging topic.

Five leading scholars will be discussing the how strategy researchers can engage with the many exciting issues that state activity raises around the world:

Aline Gatignon (Wharton): The firm, the State, and Civil Society: a Bermuda Triangle for Nonmarket Strategy?

Anna Grosman (Loughborough U): Strategies for Firm Success in the Face of Government Influence

Pasha Mahmood (NUS Singapore): Strategies for Engaging with Regulators in Nascent Markets

Mike Peng (UT Dallas): Corporate diplomacy and exit strategies

Anthea Zhang (Rice): Asymmetric imitation between state-owned firms and non-state-owned firms in their FDI location choices

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This virtual research symposium will feature cutting-edge research from the field of corporate strategy.

Four scholars, whose research focuses on corporate strategy, will present their latest research paper, and two discussants will share their feedback on the papers, followed by feedback from the audience.

The four scholars presenting their work in this virtual symposium are:

Carolyn Fu, incoming Assistant Professor of Strategy, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Philipp Meyer-Doyle, Associate Professor of Strategy, INSEAD Asia Campus

Paul Nary, Assistant Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Susan Perkins, Visiting Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Stern School of Business, New York University

The two distinguished discussants are:

Juan Alcacer, James J. Hill Chaired Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Aseem Kaul, Professor of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, The Mosaic Company – Kim Prokopanko Chair for Corporate Responsibility, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

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