Stine Grodal is Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University D'Amore-McKim School of Business in the department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She received her PhD from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering. Grodal has developed and delivered classes globally on innovation, strategy and design thinking to undergraduates, graduate students and executives. Her research examines the emergence and evolution of markets and industries. She is especially interested in how firms can shape and exploit the socio-cognitive elements of markets. Her research has received numerous awards including the EGOS Best Paper Award and the TIM Best Paper Award. Her work has been published in both management and sociology journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal and American Sociological Review. Her work has also been published in practitioner oriented journals such as MIT Sloan Management Review and IESE Insight. Grodal is committed to research methods. She is known for her expertise in using interviews, ethnography and in-depth archival research, which she combines with quantitative analyses and online experiments when appropriate.

Saku Mantere is Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University and Director of the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management. His research focuses on strategic organizations; on questions such as what it is that makes organizations strategic and how strategic management affects organizations. He is particularly interested in strategic change, middle management agency and strategy discourse, as well as in methodological issues in management studies, such as the practice of qualitative research and reasoning in theorizing about organizations. His work has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Organization.

Stefan Timmermans is Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Sociology as well as being a professor at ISG. His research draws from medical sociology and science studies and uses ethnographic and historical methods to address key issues in the for-profit U.S. health care system. He has conducted research on medical technologies, health professions, death and dying, and population health. Timmermans is conducting an ethnographic study of the expansion of newborn screening. Timmermans is the medical sociology editor of the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Iddo Tavory is a Professor at  New York University (NYU), Department of Sociology. He is a sociologist of culture, who is interested in the ways in which people make meaning in everyday life. He is currently working on a project about the advertising industry in New York. He also sustains interests in qualitative methods and the sociology of religion.

David A. Kirsch is Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. From 1996 to 2001, Kirsch held various adjunct and visiting appointments at the Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD in history from Stanford University in 1996. His research interests include industry emergence, technological choice, technological failure and the role of entrepreneurship in the emergence of new industries. In 2000 Rutgers University Press published his revised dissertation, The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. His work on the early history of the automobile industry has also been published in Business History Review and Technology and Culture. In 2003, his co-authored article on the Electric Vehicle Company received the IEEE Life Members Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. Kirsch is also interested in methodological problems associated with historical scholarship in the digital age. With the support of grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Library of Congress, he is currently building a digital archive of the Dot Com Era that will preserve at-risk, born-digital content about business and culture during the late 1990s.

Ann Langley is Emerita Professor at HEC Montréal and Distinguished Research Environment Professor at University of Warwick. Until August 31, 2020. she held the Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings. She completed her Ph.D. at HEC Montréal in 1987 after undergraduate and master’s training in the United Kingdom, and several years working in the private and public sectors as an analyst and consultant. She is author of sixteen books and over one hundred articles. Her research deals with strategic processes and practices in complex organizations, with a particular emphasis on organizational change, decision making, leadership and innovation. She has a special interest in qualitative research methods. Ann Langley was Deputy Editor of Academy of Management Journal for qualitative research from 2022-2025. She is also coeditor with Haridimos Tsoukas of the book series Perspectives on Process Organization Studies, published by Oxford University Press. She was co-editor of the journal  Strategic Organization from 2009 to 2022.

Prof. Kevin Corley is a Professor of Management and Head of the Management & Entrepreneurship department. His expertise lies in understanding how individuals and organisations approach change, and how leaders can use times of uncertainty and ambiguity to the benefit of their organisation and followers. As a teacher and coach, his focus is providing leaders with the tools to effectively implement organisational change utilising strategic thinking, adaptability, power and influence, and negotiations. With both academic and industry experience, and a career-long interest in leading organizational change, Kevin brings value to a broad cross section of industries and organizations. Kevin earned an undergraduate degree in Business from Miami University (Ohio) with a focus on organizational behavior and information technology. Upon graduation in 1993, he joined Ernst & Young as a change management consultant in Chicago. Intrigued by the question as to what happens to people confronted with IT changes, and interested in teaching and research, Kevin left consulting and earned a Ph.D. in Business from the Pennsylvania State University with a focus on Organizational Behavior in 2002.

Kevin began his professorial career at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign as an assistant professor in 2002. He joined the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State Univ in 2005, ultimately achieving the position of Professor in 2014 until his departure in May 2022. Kevin has also been a visiting professor at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He has delivered talks at business schools across Europe and North America, including Oxford, Cass/Bayes, Warwick, Aalto, Hanken, INSEAD, IE, IESE, Bocconi, the Munich School of Management, ESSEC Paris, EPFL, ETH Zurich, HEC Montreal, Yale, Dartmouth, UC-Boulder, Boston University, and Boston College.

Lamar Pierce joined the Olin faculty in 2007 after earning his PhD at UC Berkeley. Lamar's research focuses on economic and psychological factors that impact both productivity and misconduct, and the organizational solutions to jointly address these effects. Lamar is the current Editor-in-Chief at Organization Science.

Anne-Laure Fayard is Chaired Professor in Social Innovation at NOVA School of Business and Economics. She coordinates the DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) Lab @ NOVA SBE. She is also a Visiting Research Faculty at New York University. Prior to joining NOVA SBE, Anne-Laure spent 15 years at New York University, where she created the Design Lab @ NYU Maker Space. Prior NYU, Anne-Laure was faculty at INSEAD in Singapore and France. She has held visiting positions at the Center of Sociology of Innovation at Ecole des Mines in Paris, Imperial College Business School in London and at the London School of Economics. Anne-Laure is an ethnographer of work, whose interests involve collaboration, technology, innovation and design. Her work has been published in several leading academic such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science and Harvard Business Review. She is also the author with Anca Metiu of The Power of Writing in Organizations and has co-edited with Raza Mir The Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business. She is passionate about human-centered design that she teaches, researches, and practices. Her research as well as social innovation projects has been frequently highlighted in major newspapers and magazines such as New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian and Le Monde.

Dr. Christine Beckman is the Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Technology Management Department at UC Santa Barbara. She is also the current Editor in Chief at Administrative Science Quarterly. Professor Beckman has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is known for her research on entrepreneurship, organizational learning, gender inequality, technology and innovation, and interorganizational networks. She has a 2020 ethnographic book, Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age (with M. Mazmanian, Stanford University Press), and edited a 2021 Research in the Sociology of Organizations volume on the legacy of Jim March’s scholarship. She was previously the Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy, with courtesy appointments at the Marshall School of Business and in the Department of Sociology. She has also served on the faculty at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. She is a native Californian and received her B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in Sociology, and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University.

Stine Grodal is Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University D'Amore-McKim School of Business in the department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She received her PhD from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering. Grodal has developed and delivered classes globally on innovation, strategy and design thinking to undergraduates, graduate students and executives. Her research examines the emergence and evolution of markets and industries. She is especially interested in how firms can shape and exploit the socio-cognitive elements of markets. Her research has received numerous awards including the EGOS Best Paper Award and the TIM Best Paper Award. Her work has been published in both management and sociology journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal and American Sociological Review. Her work has also been published in practitioner oriented journals such as MIT Sloan Management Review and IESE Insight. Grodal is committed to research methods. She is known for her expertise in using interviews, ethnography and in-depth archival research, which she combines with quantitative analyses and online experiments when appropriate.