Maurizio Zollo holds a Ph.D. degree in management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a laurea degree in monetary economics from Bocconi University. He is currently the Director of the Center for Research in Organization and Management and the Bocconi Dean’s Chaired Professor in Strategy and Corporate Responsibility at Bocconi University. Maurizio Zollo serves on the Executive Committee of the European Academy of Management and of the European Academy of Business in Society, of which he is one of the co-founders. He also serves as associate editor or on the editorial board of five leading academic journals in the strategy and organization studies fields. Before joining Bocconi University in September 2007, he served for 10 years on the faculty of INSEAD in the strategy department. Maurizio Zollo served as one of the Program Chairs for the 2010 SMS Annual International conference in Rome.

Jay Barney is a Professor of Management and holds the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the relationship between costly-to-copy firm skills and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Management and senior editor for Organization Science and has been published in numerous leading publications. In addition to his teaching and research, he presents executive training programs throughout the US and Europe. His consulting work focuses on large-scale organizational change and strategic analysis. Jay Barney is an SMS Fellow as well as a fellow of the Academy of Management. In 1997 he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Lund, and has honorary visiting professor positions in New Zealand and China.

Russell Coff is the Wisconsin Naming Partners Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the role of knowledge-based assets in creating and sustaining competitive advantage. For example, he studies management dilemmas associated with human assets including how buyers cope in mergers and acquisitions that involve human assets, rent appropriation in the context of a knowledge-based advantage, and organizational design under conditions of asymmetric information and uncertainty. Professor Coff received his Ph.D. from UCLA and has previously been a faculty member at Emory and Washington Universities. He 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. He also chaired the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society.

R. Edward Freeman is University Professor and Olsson Professor at the Darden School, University of Virginia. He is also Academic Director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, housed at Darden. His latest book, Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Managing for Stakeholders was published by Yale University Press in 2007. Freeman's Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach in 1984 traced the genesis of the stakeholder idea and offered a new way to conceptualize business and business strategy.

Rajendra Sisodia is Professor of Marketing at Bentley University and co-founder and Chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Institute. He has a Ph. D. in Marketing & Business Policy from Columbia University. In 2003, Rajendra Sisodia was cited as one of “50 Leading Marketing Thinkers” by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Bentley University honored him with the Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2007 and the Innovation in Teaching Award in 2008. Rajendra Sisodia’s book The Rule of Three: How Competition Shapes Markets was a finalist for the 2004 Best Marketing Book Award from the American Marketing Association. His book Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose was named one of the best business books of 2007 by several organizations, including Amazon.com. Rajendra Sisodia has published seven books and over 100 academic articles. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNBC and numerous other media outlets. He has consulted and taught executive programs for numerous companies, including AT&T, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Price Waterhouse, Ernst & Young, and Southern California Edison.

Emma Marcegaglia is the President of Confindustria, the Association of Italian Manufacturers, the first woman and the youngest person to be elected to this high-level institutional role in Italy. In addition, she is Board member and co-CEO (with her brother Antonio ) of Marcegaglia S.p.A., one of the leading manufacturers of steel products in Europe. Before her current role at Confindustria, she was Vice-President in charge of the Association’s energy and industrial policy. Earlier roles include serving as President for the Young Entrepreneurs for Europe (YES) and as President of the Italian Association of Young Entrepreneurs. She holds a Laurea degree in Management from Bocconi University and completed MBA studies at the New York University’s Stern Business School.

Mario Monti was a member of the European Commission in charge of Competition from 1999 to 2005. From 1995 - 1999 he was in charge of the Single Market, Financial Services and Tax Policy of the previous Commission. He received a degree in Economics from Bocconi University and pursued graduate studies at Yale University; in 1994, he was appointed President of Bocconi University. He also taught at the Universities of Trento and Turin before returning to his alma mater. At Bocconi, Mario Monti was also a professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Economics. He has been a member of the board of directors of several companies and is the author of many publications, in particular on monetary and financial economics, fiscal policy and European integration.

Constance E. Helfat is J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Constance Helfat’s research focuses on firm capabilities, including technological innovation and firm adaptation and change. She also has conducted research on corporate executives, including women executives. Constance Helfat has published widely in leading academic journals, and has written and edited three academic books. She is a member of the SMS Fellows Group, serves as an associate editor of the Strategic Management Journal and the forthcoming Palgrave Dictionary of Strategic Management, and is on the editorial boards of several other journals. Constance Helfat received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Yale University.

Kathleen M. Eisenhardt is the S. W. Ascherman M.D. Professor and Co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University. She is the coauthor of Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos, which won the George R. Terry Book Award. Kathleen Eisenhardt conducts research at the nexus of strategy and organization theory with particular emphasis on entrepreneurial firms and high velocity markets. Among her awards are the Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize from SMS, and the Scholarly Contribution to Management award from AOM. She is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and Academy of Management, and has served as a Fellow of the World Economic Forum (Davos) and the Clinton Global Initiative.

Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He has authored or co-authored many journal articles published in leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, among others. Mike Hitt is a Founding Editor of the SEJ, a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal, and former president of the Academy of Management. His involvement in the SMS runs deep with recently serving as the President of the SMS. He is a member of the SMS Fellows and is the former Deputy Dean of this organization. He has received awards from the American Society of Competitiveness for Outstanding Academic Contributions (1996) and Outstanding Intellectual Contributions (1999) to Competitiveness.

Margaret Peteraf is the Leon E. Williams Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She is a member of the SMS Fellows Group and has served as Chair of the Competitive Strategy Interest Group. She has also served on the Academy of Management’s Board of Governors, is a past Chair of the BPS Division of the Academy, and is presently on 9 editorial boards, including the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, and Organization Science. She is best known for her work on strategic group identity, the resource-based view, and dynamic capabilities. Her 1993 SMJ paper, “The Cornerstones of Competitive Advantage: A Resource-Based View”, won the The Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize in 1999 for its contribution toward the development of the strategic management field.

David J Teece's research interests include the theory of the firm and strategic management, the economics of technological change, knowledge management, technology transfer, and antitrust economics and innovation. He is the Thomas W. Tusher Chair at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University, and has also received four honorary doctorates. He is the author of more than 200 books and articles, and is the co-editor of Industrial & Corporate Change. He is one of the top 10 cited scholars in economics and business for the decade, and has been recognized by Accenture as one of the world's top 50 business intellectuals. He is the co-founder of the Berkeley Research Group, a professional services firm focusing on economics, finance, and data analytics. David Teece has also been elected to the SMS Fellows Group.

Sidney G. Winter is the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management, Emeritus, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During his career he has held regular or visiting appointments at seven universities, served on the staffs of the U.S. General Accounting Office, the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, been a consultant for various governmental and non-profit organizations, and appeared as an expert witness in antitrust and other litigation. With Richard Nelson, he co-authored An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982). His recent research focus has been on the study of management problems from the viewpoint of evolutionary economics. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Sidney Winter is a graduate of Swarthmore College, and received his doctorate in economics from Yale University. He is also a member of the SMS Fellows Group.

Gabriel Szulanski is Professor of Strategy at INSEAD Singapore. His research focuses on the exploitation of knowledge assets, such as the transfer of best practices, and on the making of strategy. He is best known for his work on Stickiness and Replication. Gabriel Szulanski has served on the editorial board of leading academic journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Long Range Planning and the Journal of International Business Studies. He is currently Area Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. He received his doctorate in management from INSEAD.

Sergio Bertolucci serves as Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN. Before his time at CERN, he chaired the LHC committee and was a member of DESY’s physics research committee. He was also vice-president and a member of the Board of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). A former Pisa scholar, Sergio Bertolucci has worked at DESY, Fermilab and Frascati. He was a member of the group that founded Fermilab’s CDF experiment and has been involved in the design, construction and running of the CDF detector. Sergio Bertolucci has been technical coordinator of the team responsible for the design and construction of the KLOE detector at the DAFNE storage ring at the Frascati National Laboratories (LNF). He was appointed head of the LNF accelerator division and the DAFNE project, becoming Director in 2002.

Timo J. Santalainen's career concept is a combination of academia, business and consulting. His previous academic positions include professorships at Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management, Texas Tech University and Management Centre Europe. He has held senior executive positions in retailing, banking and world sports organizations. Currently he is President of STRATNET, a Geneva-based network of strategy advisors, and Adjunct Professor of Strategy and International Management at Aalto University Business School and at Lappeenranta University of Technology. His most recent field of interest is strategic management and thinking in transformational and parastatal organizations such as telecommunications, energy, sports, public service and research. He has been a strategy adviser and Board member for many of these organizations throughout the world. Timo Santalainen is Founding Member of Strategic Management Society. He is the author or co-author of ten books, numerous chapters in books and articles in leading international publications.