International research summer@Arison“Managerial Agility and Innovation”

Managerial Agility and Innovation

Change has always been a central element in management, yet there is growing evidence that recently changes are both more frequent and more fundamental. Managers and businesses operate in a turbulent, unstable and uncertain environment that may call for flexible and innovative managing.

In order to stimulate research in the field of “managerial agility and innovation” Arison School of Business will hold a series of international research events on the subject starting in the summer of 2013.

Summer of International Research in the Arison School of Business

The summer events (including a conference, a workshop and a Ph.D. school) are a combination of one of the hottest topics today in management - managerial agility and innovation, an Israeli school which has become an international center of research and practical activities and a rare list of researchers and experts from around the world, coming from leading universities such as: INSEAD, Wharton, Columbia, NYU, UCLA, Duke, Northwestern, London Business School etc. Furthermore, the activities will include presentation of case studies by companies like Google and IBM.

The Activities*

1. Academic-practitioners workshop with focus on strategic agility and innovation - June 16 and 17, 2013

2. Research conference with focus on managing change - June 30 and July 1, 2013

3. Ph.D. summer school - July 2 through July 10, 2013

4. Ph.D. proposal competition - June 30, 2013. The winner of the competition will receive an award of $7,000 and the runner-up will get $3,000. The awards are sponsored by the U.S.-Israel Center on Innovation and Economic Sustainability at the University of California-San Diego.

For further details & registration, see: www.idc.ac.il/summeratarison

* All activities will be held in English. There might be small changes in the final program.

Strategic Agility and Innovation WorkshopJune 16 and 17, 2013

The workshop will bring together leading scholars and executives to discuss the multi-facet consequences of strategic management in a business environment, where changes become both more frequent and more fundamental.

The workshop will deal with matters such as the strategic planning of businesses, the structure of organizations, effective management of innovation processes and leadership styles of upper echelon management.

The Aim

To create a meaningful interaction between academics and executives on the subject matters of strategic agility and innovation.

Location

IDC Herzliya, Israel.

Audience

A selected group of executives whose daily job involves relevant agility dilemmas (CEOs, VPs business development, VPs marketing) as well as strategy and entrepreneurship scholars from Israel and abroad.

Lecturers

Prof. Yves Doz, INSEAD

Prof. Gary Dushnitsky, London Business School

Prof. Brent Goldfarb, University of Maryland

Prof. Ithai Stern, Northwestern University

Prof. Steve Tadelis, Berkeley and ebay Research Labs

Mr. Eze Vidra, Google Campus, London

Mr. Erez Vigodman, Makhteshim Group

Prof. Jerry Wind, Wharton

Managing Change Research ConferenceJune 30 and July 1, 2013

Although “Managerial Agility and Innovation” isn’t yet an established research subject, related topics have received considerable attention. These include: curiosity, creativity, and innovation; resistance to change; organizational structure; strategic planning and leadership; and proactive and reactive management.

In order to stimulate research of these specific topics and the broader topic of “Managerial Agility and Innovation” Arison School of Business will hold a summer conference and a Ph.D. summer workshop.

The aim

The two conference days will include research activity in rich formats - including theme talks, presentations of Specific research articles and brainstorming discussions - in order to identify new research questions relating to the conference topic. A video clip showing various participators suggesting new questions, in the presentations, discussions, and brainstorming sessions, will be edited in a TED format and distributed online in an effort to stimulate research and discussion into these issues.

Location

IDC Herzliya, Israel.

Audience

About hundred scholars and academic researchers in the fields of management and strategy.

Lecturers

Prof. Ap Dijksterhuis, Radboud UniversityProf. Ido Erev, Technion and IDC Prof. Ayelet Fishbach, University of ChicagoProf. Craig Fox, UCLAProf. Adam Galinsky, Columbia University Prof. Uri Gneezy, UCSDProf. Tory Higgins, Columbia UniversityProf. Aaron Kay, Duke University

“Managerial Agility & Innovation” -Ph.D. Candidates Summer School

2.7.13 - 10.7.13

The Aim

Its mission is to provide rigorous and high quality training for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral students in selected areas of the behavioral science that bear on change and innovation. The participants, individually or in small teams, would prepare and present a research proposal on the topic of the seminar

Location

IDC Herzliya, Israel.

Participants

The school will be open to fifteen students selected on the basis of their qualifications and background.

Workshop’s Moderators

Prof. Ido Erev, Technion and IDC Herzliya

Prof. Adam Galinsky, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Prof. Tory Higgins, Columbia University

Prof. Yaacov Trope, NYU and IDC Herzliya

Doctoral Dissertation Competition onManagerial Agility & Innovation

June 30, 2013

In effort to stimulate research of “Managerial Agility and Innovation” and other topics that can be convincingly relate to it, Arison School of Business held a competition among doctoral dissertation proposals in these topics. The winning dissertations will be announced during the conference.

Selection Procedure

Since “Managerial Agility and Innovation” is an interdisciplinary topic that crosses various disciplines such as social psychology, judgment and decision making, management, strategy, organizational behavior, behavioral economics etc. The proposals were reviewed by a diverse group of scholars.

The proposals were judged based on their potential contribution (be it conceptual, empirical or practical), the fit between the research question and the suggested method of exploration, and its feasibility.

The Award

The winner of the competition will receive an award of $7,000 and the runner-up will get $3,000. Both (winner and runner-up) will be also invited to the Managerial Agility & Innovation Summer School (June 30 through July 10, 2013).

The awards are sponsored by the U.S.-Israel Center on Innovation and Economic Sustainability at the University of California-San Diego.

Location

IDC Herzliya, Israel.

Strategic Agility and Innovation Workshop16.6.13-17.6.13

Prof. Yves Doz, INSEAD

Prof. Doz is a professor of Business Strategy and the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD. Yves has taught at Harvard, Stanford, and Gakuin University in Tokyo. He is

a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and serves on the boards or advisory committees of various academic institutes and professional associations. His research on the strategy and organization of multinational companies led to numerous publications, including several books, in particular The Multinational Mission, co-authored with C.K Prahalad. He consulted and taught at many major multinational corporations.

Prof. Gary Dushnitsky, London Business School

Prof. Dushnitsky is an Associate Pro fessor o f S t ra tegy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, and Academic Director of the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Wharton

School (University of Pennsylvania), where he was previously a faculty member. He received his Ph.D. from NYU. Gary Dushnitsky serves as a Senior Editor at Organization Science and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and is a member of several editorial review boards. Gary Dushnitsky’s research focuses on the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation and has been published in leading academic journals. His work received several academic distinctions including the inaugural Kauffmann Junior Faculty Fellowship (2009), and several best dissertation prizes.

Dr. Brent Goldfarb, University of Maryland

Dr. Goldfarb is an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Goldfarb’s research focuses on how the production and

exchange of technology differs from more traditional economic goods, with a focus on the implications on the role of startups in the economy. Brent gained a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Copies of Dr. Goldfarb’s publications and working papers have been downloaded over 1200 times.

Prof. Ithai Stern, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Prof. Stern is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Professor Stern’s research has been published in leading journals including Administrative Science Quarterly,

Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal. He received his PhD in strategic management from the University of Texas at Austin. Stern has been a member of the Strategic Management Society since 2002. He has co-founded and co-organized several strategy conferences including the Israel Strategy Conference and the Midwest Strategy Meeting (MSM).

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Prof. Steve Tadelis, Berkeley and ebay Research Labs

Prof. Tadelis is Chief Strategy Officer, HAAS School of Business, University of California Berkeley and a Distinguished Economist at eBay Research Labs. Dr. Tadelis earned his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University, Masters of

Science at Technion Israel Institute of Technology and BA in economics at University of Haifa, Israel. He currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.

Mr. Eze Vidra, Google

Mr. Eze is an entrepreneur at heart who founded the VC in 2005, which reviews Israeli startups and venture capital deal flow with a spotlight on Israel. Eze holds an MBA from London Business School and a B.A. in Business and

IT Management with distinction from IDC herzliya in Israel. Currently, Eze is the Head of Campus, Google’s dedicated space for technology startups in East London. Before joining Google, Eze held leadership positions in product management at Shopping.com in Israel, Gerson Lehrman Group in New York, Ask.com in Silicon Valley and at AOL in London, where he was the Principal Product Manager for Search for Europe. On his ‘spare’ time, Eze participated on the steering committees of various professional groups including Under the Radar, The Israel web tour and the New York Hedge fund roundtable.

Mr. Erez Vigodman, Makhteshim Agan Group

Mr. Vigodman is the President & Chief Executive Officer in Makhteshim Agan Group since January 2010. Prior to this role, Erez served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Strauss Group Ltd.; Chief

Executive officer of Elite Israel; and a partner at KPMG Somekh Chaikin. Mr. Vigodman is a member of the Advisory committee to the National Economic Council, a member of the Teva Pharmaceutical Industries board, and a chairman of the Be’atzmi fellowship association. He is a certified public accountant, holds a B.A in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University and is a graduate of the program of Management Development at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Prof. Jerry Wind, Wharton

Prof. Wind is the Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), and one of the most cited authors in marketing with 22 books and more than 250 research papers and articles. He is

the Director for the SEI center for Advanced Studies in Management and an editor for Wharton School Publishing. Professor Wind is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the three major marketing awards.

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Strategic Agility and Innovation Workshop16.6.13-17.6.13

Prof. Ap Dijksterhuis, Radboud University

Prof. Dijksterhuis investigates the psychological aspects of unconsciousness. He has won many academic awards (among them the PA Award for Early Career contributions and the EAESP Kurt Lewin Award) and published in the top journals of

his field. His book ‘Het slimme onbewuste’ (‘The smart unconscious’) became a bestseller in the Netherlands, opening the secrets of unconsciousness to the average reader. Prof. Dijksterhuis was also nominated as one of the top 100 of most influential Dutch people by HP / De Tijd (conventionally considered to be one of the four most influential weekly magazines in the Netherlands).

Prof. Ido Erev, Technion and IDC

Prof. Erev is an experimental psychologist focusing in the effect of the economic environment on human behavior. After graduating from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Prof. Erev went to do a post-doc under the

supervision of future Nobel laureate Alvin E. Roth at the University of Pittsburgh and proceeded to publish many cited papers with him since. Currently Prof. Erev examines the decisions to solve Math problems, Gentle rule enforcement and the economics of small decisions (with Alvin E. Roth).

Prof. Ayelet Fishbach, University of Chicago

Prof. Fishbach research interest lies in the study of self-control. Specifically, Prof. Fishbach studies how people protect their long-term goals from the influence of short-term motives or temptations. After finishing her undergraduate and graduate studies in Tel-Aviv University (with distinction), Prof.

Fishbach was offered a position at the University of Chicago. Prof. Fishbach has won many awards and honors, such as the Fulbright fellowship, the Landau Foundation award and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation of the year award. She is also a member of the editorial board at several leading papers as well as the top grant panels in her field.

Prof. Craig Fox, UCLA

Prof. Fox studies behavioral decision theory. While doing his B.A. in Berkeley, he received an honors thesis while working under future Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, and proceeded to do his M.A. and PhD under Amos Tversky. Prof. Fox proceeded

towards a prolific academic career starting at Duke University and proceeding to UCLA, where he resides today. Prof. Fox is known for forming (along with another presenter, Michael Morris) the “dream team”, a group of behavioral economists that consulted President Obama in his election campaigns in 2008 and 2012, providing ideas such as how to counter false rumors and or how to mobilize voters.

Appendix B

Academic Research Conference on“Managerial Agility & Innovation”: Lecturers

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Prof. Adam Galinsky, Columbia University

Prof. Galinsky is a Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Social Psychology and his B.A from Harvard University. Professor Galinsky is frequently cited in the

media, his research and insights have appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune. His work on auctions was featured in the 2006 Ideas of the Year by the New York Times Magazine. He has consulted with and conducted executive workshops for hundreds of clients across the globe, including Fortune 100 firms, non-profits, and local and national governments.

Prof. Uri Gneezy, UCSD

Prof. Gneezy is the Chair in Behavioral Economics at USCD; his focus is on putting behavioral economics to work in the real world, where theory can meet application. In addition to the traditional laboratory and field

studies, Prof. Gneezy is the editor of behavioral economics in the leading management journal, Management Science. He is currently working with several firms; conducting experiments in which basic findings from behavioral economics can help companies achieve their traditional goals in non-traditional ways. In 2010, he was selected as one of the Seven Most Powerful New Economists by Forbes magazine for repeatedly demonstrating the many ways rational economic theory crashes when it encounters actual data.

Prof. Tory Higgins, Columbia University

Prof. Higgins is the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology and Business at Columbia University. His works are positioned at the intersection of motivation and cognition, and he is best known for developing the Self-Discrepancy

Theory. Among his many awards are the William James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society and the Distinguished Scientist Award from several of the top psychological societies, he was also the recipient of the Presidential Teaching Award. Prof. Higgins has served as an advisor and consultant to many governmental and academic organizations.

Prof. Aaron Kay, Duke University

Prof. Kay’s research focuses on the relation between motivation, implicit social cognition, and social issues. Only 6 years post-PhD, Dr. Kay has been endowed with more than $600,000 in academic grants, published over

30 empirical papers and has published 2 edited books. Aaron Kay has been awarded the Rising Star award, the SAGE Young Scholar Early Career Contribution Award and many others. His research has appeared in many media outlets, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Financial Times, among others.

Appendix B

Academic Research Conference on“Managerial Agility & Innovation”: Lecturers

30.6.13 - 1.7.13

Prof. Michael Morris, Columbia University

Prof. Morris is a Professor of Leadership and Psychology at Columbia University. Prof. Morris is highly regarded for his research on social judgment, the study of how people make sense of events observed in their environment.

He designed and runs Columbia’s Program on Social Intelligence, which translates emerging research insights into new forms of leadership training. Prof. Morris is known for forming (along with another presenter, Craig Fox) the “dream team”, consulting President Obama in his election campaigns in 2008 and 2012. Outside of academia, his consulting and training work brings him into contact with many private and public sector leaders from around the world.

Prof. Yaacov Trope, NYU

Prof. Trope is a Professor of Psychology at New York University. Prof. Trope’s research focuses on the cognitive, motivational and affective mechanisms underlying social judgments and decisions. In his researches he is best known for his

Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance, e.g.: why when revenues are projected to expand like a chain reaction into the future, investors get caught up in the excitement and overlook any warning signs. He has won numerous research awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship and the American Psychological Society Fellowship. Recently, Prof. Trope was elected to be a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the world.

Prof. Wendy Wood, USC

Prof. Wood is the Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California. Prof. Wood is a social psychologist, and her research addresses the ways that habits guide behavior - and why

they are so difficult to break, as well as evolutionary models of gender differences in behavior. Prof. Wood’s research has been endowed with more than 2 million USD in academic grants, funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.

Appendix B

Academic Research Conference on“Managerial Agility & Innovation”: Lecturers

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