Join the SMS Corporate Strategy Interest Group for their tenth Masterclass! Professors Constance Helfat of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Daniel Levinthal of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania will join the series to discuss the topic of Corporate Renewal, moderated by Teresa Dickler.
Constance (Connie) Helfat is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She studies strategic change and has written extensively on the (dynamic) capabilities of firms and managers, technological innovation, and the dynamics of diversification and vertical integration. Connie served as a Co-editor and an Associate Editor of SMJ, where she is currently a Consulting Editor and is co-editing a special issue on the Resource-based View. Connie is a Fellow of the SMS and a Foundations Scholar of the Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group. She is also a Fellow of the AOM and received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the TIM Division. She was a Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Scholar in 2019 and 2020, and was awarded the Viipuri Prize for outstanding achievements in strategy research and an honorary doctorate from Lappeenranta University of Technology.
Daniel Levinthal is the Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dan Levinthal has published extensively on questions of organizational adaptation and industry evolution, particularly in the context of technological change with 70 articles and book chapters that have received some 20,000 citations. He is a Fellow of both the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. In addition, he is a past winner of the Strategic Management Society’s Best Paper prize and has received the Distinguished Scholar from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy, as well as the Outstanding Educator Award from the Business Policy Division of the Academy. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Strategy Science and has previously served as Editor-in-chief of Organization Science. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Southern Denmark, Tilburg University, and the University of Warwick and has held visiting professorships at the Harvard Business School (Bower Fellow), the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, University of Pisa (Philip Morris Visiting Professor), and the University of New South Wales (Michael Crouch Visiting Professor).
