ABOUT \
Conference overview and organization
The Israel Strategy Conference (ISC) is a voluntary initiative, not affiliated with any institution, aimed at promoting aca
demic excellence and advancing the field of strategic management in Israel. Towards this end, ISC invites highly prestigious keynote speakers, subjects paper proposal submissions to a very strict double-blind review process, and offers the prestigious ISC Best Paper Award which carries a $1,000 cash value.
ISC provides an opportunity for scholars to exchange ideas and advance their research in strategic management and related fields such as entrepreneurship and international business. ISC is held every two years and is hosted by different Israeli universities on a rotating basis.
ISC was founded by Niron Hashai, Dovev Lavie, and Ithai Stern, with the help and advice of Avi Meshulach, Zur Shapira, and the late Avi Fiegenbaum. The first conference was held December 2007 in Jerusalem, with more than a hundred participants from all over the world. Over the years, the conference has grown to over 160 attendees.
ISC offers a variety of opportunities to get involved, including special session organizers, keynote speakers, panelists, presenters, discussants, volunteers, and sponsors.
Email us at [email protected] for more information about these opportunities.
AHARON COHEN MOHLIVER
LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL
GIL AVNIMELECH
ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE
NATALIE SHEFER
REICHMAN UNIVERSITY
DOVEV LAVIE
BOCCONI UNIVERSITY
ITHAI STERN
INSEAD
NIRON HASHAI
REICHMAN UNIVERSITY
GARY DUSHNITSKY
LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL
SHARON BELENZON
DUKE
ZUR SHAPIRA
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
GABRIEL SZULANSKI
INSEAD
SHARON KLEIN-RAZ
CONFERENCE PRODUCER
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS \
Distinguished scholars speaking at ISC 2022
BRUCE KOGUT
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
RUSS COFF
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He teaches courses on Governance and on Governance on Ethics. He has taught in executive programs in the US, Europe, and China.
His current research focuses on governance and corporate compensation, social capital markets and social metrics , and the ‘political color of boards,’ financed by the National Science Foundation in the area of sociology and computational social science. In cooperation with IFMR in Chennai, colleagues and he have completed a study on the prosocial attitudes of employees and incentives on the productivity of microfinance institutions. His research has 70,000 Google citations and has been published in leading journals in economics, management, sociology, and computer science.
His most recent book is The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance, published by MIT Press in 2012. A collection of his past articles on real options and foreign investment and knowledge of the firm was published by Oxford University Press in 2008 under the title Knowledge, Options, and Institutions.
He has been a member of the academic advisory board to the chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and is or has been a director in corporate and academic boards in Europe, Russia, and India. He received his PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management and holds an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has been an academic visitor at several research institutes, including Science Center Berlin (where
he was the Karl Deutsch Professor), Ecole Polytechnique, Santa Fe Institute, and Tsinghua University.
He directed the strategy and emerging-economy research cent
ers and was the associate vice dean for the PhD program at Wharton and was the founder of the social entrepreneurship program at INSEAD. At Columbia University, he collaborated with Cambridge University to co-direct the Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program that identified and trained social entrepreneurs with an interest in fostering a culture of mutual respect and dialogue among Jewi
sh and Muslim communities.
In 2012-2013, he was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin and is currently a member of its external board.
Russ Coff is the Thomas J. Falk Distinguished Chair in Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the role of human assets in innovation, creativity, and, ultimately in competitive advantage. For example, he studies management dilemmas associated with human capital including: 1) the management of strategic investments in knowledge-based assets under great uncertainty 2) appropriating value (rent) from competitive advantages, 3) creativity & innovation under conditions of asymmetric information and uncertainty, and 4) how buyers cope in mergers and acquisitions that involve human assets. Coff received his Ph.D. from UCLA and has previously been a faculty member at Emory and Washington Universities.
Russ has served the research community through his participation on a variety of editorial boards including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization (where he was a Co-Editor). He also chaired the Business Policy and Strategic Division of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. He is a Past President of the Strategic Management Society.
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
ISC will be holding its annual Doctoral Consortium (18/12/2022). The world of research is all about communicating with a community of scholars with overlapping interests. Doctoral consortia are most valuable in providing an intimate setting for a cohort of doctoral students to get to know each other and meet senior scholars in the field. The ISC Doctoral Consortium aims to offer such a setting for Ph.D. students interested in conducting cutting-edge research in strategy and related areas.
The consortium is organized by Adam Kleinbaum (Dartmouth) and Annamaria Conti (University of Lausanne) and features an international panel of senior faculty members.
The Consortium is comprised of three components:
- Current and future themes in Strategy: panelists will present their views of emerging “hot” topics in the general management field, and students will be invited to suggest ideas and jointly speculate how they may play in the wider audience of strategy research.
- Getting published in top journals: a panel discussions aimed at conveying to students some proven techniques of (1) framing research questions, (2) research design, (3) packaging, (4) dealing with editors and reviewers.
- Thesis Development workshop: a select group of doctoral students will have an opportunity to present their research and receive guidance and commentary from senior faculty. Selection for this workshop is highly competitive. Students admitted to this program will receive a 50% discount on the ISC registration fee (the doctoral consortium will be offered at no charge to all attending students).
If you have questions regarding the doctoral consortium, please contact Adam Kleinbaum ( [email protected] ) and Annamaria Conti ( [email protected] ).
ADAM KLEINBAUM
TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT DARTMOUTH
ANNAMARIA CONTI
HEC UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE
CONFERENCE LOCATION \
Reichman University, Herzliya
About Arison School of Business
The Arison School of Business strives to prepare future business leaders and executives for the modern business world and it’s constantly shifting challenges. The program is innovative and is continually updated to reflect new developments in business education and the global arena. It is designed and taught by experienced and internationally regarded faculty members who have lectured at the world’s top universities. They bring the best and latest in international education and a strong commitment to teaching excellence.
About Reichman University
Reichman University offers undergraduate and graduate programs, including PhD programs in social sciences and computer science, with a strong research output. Our interdisciplinary research is renowned world-wide in both competitive grants and publications. We have over 150 tenure-track researchers across 10 schools with more than 30 research centers, labs and institutes, working on over 100 active grants and projects annually.
Reichman University is an active member of various international research consortia, for example the Law Schools Global League, which brings together 25 leading law schools from around the globe; the ALEUESS consortium of leading European social science universities; and the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, which includes universities from 19 countries that are committed to excellence in education and research and to international collaboration to encourage groundbreaking research projects.
Over the last five years, Reichman University has participated in more than 40 consortia – numerous national funding agencies, Horizon2020 research groups, ERC projects, and COST Actions.
Herzliya is an affluent city in the central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture.
PAST CONFERENCES
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2007
Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2008
Ben Gurion University, Be’er Scheva , 2009
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2010
Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2012
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2015
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2017
AOM Tel Aviv (ISC + IOBC), Tel Aviv, 2018
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