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Strategic Management News and Events

As one of the nation’s preeminent hubs for strategic management, the Strategic Management Department proudly offers a seminar series, alumni conference, and other exceptional events for students, faculty, and professionals working in the field. The menus below showcase upcoming events as well as a sample of those that have recently occurred.

News

Upcoming

9Nov
Strategic Management Seminar Speaker featuring Libby Weber
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Recent Activity

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Oct
Strategic Management Seminar Speaker featuring Marco Testoni
Marco Testoni is an assistant professor of strategy at Miami Herbert Business School. Before joining the University of Miami, he was an assistant professor at Tilburg University. He received his Ph.D. in Strategy from UCLA Anderson School of Management, a MSc from Bocconi University, a MSc from Copenhagen Business School, and a B.S. from Bocconi University. His research focuses on corporate strategy, with particular interest in mergers and acquisitions, and investigates factors that affect firms’ ability to appropriate value from acquisitions. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal and has received scholarly awards, including the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Strategic Management and the Best Corporate Strategy Interest Group Proposal Award at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference.
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11
Sep
Strategic Management Seminar Speaker featuring Andy Wu
Andy Wu is the Arjan and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers on competing in and adapting to technology at the cutting edge. He received the HBS Wyss Award, HBS Williams Award, HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award, Poets & Quants 40 Under 40, and Penn Prize in recognition of commitment and excellence in teaching and mentoring. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Strategy Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals.
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Aug
Strategic Management Seminar Speaker featuring Mike Withers
Mike Withers is professor in the Department of Management & Organization at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. He received his Ph.D. in strategic management from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research interests are focused on how organizations manage external dependencies and adapt to changing competitive environments through strategic decision-making, executive leadership transitions, and corporate governance mechanisms. His research has been published in several journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, and Journal of Applied Psychology.
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10
Apr
Mgmt 331 Speaker Series featuring Thomas Payne
Attorney and Purdue Alum Thomas Payne will speak in Mgmt 331 regarding global employment law issues
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Apr
Mgmt 331 Speaker Series featuring Cory Christian Voight
Assistant Chief Deputy Attorney General, Indiana Attorney General's Office, Cory Christian Voight will speak in Mgmt 331 regarding civil rights violations in both employment and housing.
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26
Feb
Strategic Management Seminar Series featuring Aneel Karnani
Professor Aneel Karnani is a faculty member of the Strategy group at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Professor Karnani's interests are focused on three topics: strategies for growth, global competition, and the role of business in society. He is interested in global competition, particularly in the context of emerging economies. His recent research has focused on poverty reduction and the appropriate roles for the private sector, the state and civil society. He is also interested in how society can strike the appropriate balance between private profits and public welfare in tackling major societal challenges. Karnani is the author of the book Fighting Poverty Together. Dr. Karnani will present "Corporate Purpose in a World with Governments" on Friday, February 26, 2026 at 10:30 am.
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23
Feb
Mgmt 331 Speaker Series featuring ACLU attorney
Employment law speakers from across Indiana have been invited to speak in Mgmt 331 Employment Discrimination Law course. ACLU attorney will speak on speech rights in employment.
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20
Feb
Strategic Management Seminar Speaker featuring Kannan (Sri) Srikanth
Kannan Srikanth is a Professor of Strategy at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. Prior to joining Fisher, he was faculty of Strategy and Organization at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and at the Indian School of Business, and a visiting professor of Strategic Organization Design at the University of Southern Denmark. Broadly, his research investigates how to design organizations and inter-organizational relationships to be more effective and more innovative. He has studied mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, outsourcing and offshoring relationships and global product development. He regularly consults and teaches with companies across Asia, Europe and North America. He is a member of the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science, and an associate editor at the Journal of Organization Design, the official journal of the Organization Design Community. His research has been published in business press (including the Wall Street Journal), academic journals (including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Strategy Science), and has been widely presented at research conferences around the world.
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Oct
Strategic Management Seminar Series featuring Helge Klapper
Helge Klapper is an assistant professor of Strategic Management at Purdue University. His research interests include organizational decision making and novel forms of organizing. More specifically, his work examines how technology, such as blockchain or artificial intelligence, helps or hinders effective organizational decision making. Helge is also interested how hierarchies or lack of hierarchies affect organizational decisions. Helge Klapper will present "Vicarious learning in innovation contests: Epistemic crowding and emergent coordination" on October 31, 2025.
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