David J. Teece is an authority on subjects including 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 in Global Business and director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization (IMIO) at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. In 1988 he co-founded LECG, a global expert services firm that provides independent expert testimony and analysis, original authoritative studies, and strategic consulting services. He has served many years as Chairman and since 2007 Vice Chairman of the board. 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 three 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.

Tina Dacin is the E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behavior at Queen's University’s School of Business. Her research interests include organizational and institutional change, social entrepreneurship, and strategic collaboration with an emphasis on partner selection in alliances. Her work has been widely published and she sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Management & Governance, the SMJ and as Section Editor for Journal of Management Inquiry and Senior Editor for Organization Science. She has previously served as a Senior Editor and a Consulting Editor for Journal of International Business Studies and for multiple terms on the Editorial Review Boards of other leading journals. She is currently Incoming Chair of the College of Organization Science at Informs and is the recent past Chair of the Corporate Strategy and Governance IG of the SMS as well as recent past Chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the AoM.

Nicolai Foss is a Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Copenhagen Business School, the Norwegian School of Economics, and the University of Warwick, and the Head of Department of CBS' Department of Strategic Management and Globalization. His research interests lie within the foundations of strategic management, the theory of the firm and strategic entrepreneurship. Nicolai Foss has served as a member of the Senate of the CBS, is a panel member of the European Research Council, and a member of Academia Europaea.Educated as an economist from the Copenhagen University (1989), Nicolai Foss his received his PhD degree from the Copenhagen Business School in 1993, where he has been Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. His work has appeared in SMJ, AMJ, AMR, Organization Science and other journals, as well as in numerous books.

Marjorie Lyles is OneAmerica Chair in Business Administration and Professor of International Strategic Management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Marjorie Lyles’ research addresses organizational learning and innovation, international strategies, joint ventures, and alliances, particularly in emerging economies. She has over 100 articles and chapters. Her work has appeared in top academic journals such as SMJ, SEJ, ASQ, JIBS, OSci, AMR, JMS and AMJ. She is a SMS and AIB Fellow. Lyles & Salk (1996) on learning in IJVs won the JIBS Decade Award 2006. She has also received two NSF grants. She has consulted with USIA, World Bank, USAID, UNDP and private firms in Malaysia, Hungary, Vietnam, Poland, China and Indonesia on international strategies, educational projects, and needs assessment for management. Marjorie Lyles has served SMS in many roles: 2009 Program Co-Chair of the Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., Board of Trustees of the Strategic Management Foundation; Consulting Editor for Global Strategy Journal; co-founder and Chair for the Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group, and over twenty years of attending and reviewing for the Annual Conference and the Strategic Management Journal.

Gabriel Szulanski is Professor of Strategy at INSEAD Singapore, where he is currently the area chair. 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, where he also served as Area Editor. A member of the Strategic Management Society since 1994, Gabriel Szulanski currently serves as a board member, and has served in the leadership of the Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group. In 2012 he co-chaired the SMS special conference in Singapore and in 2013 he served as track chair for the SMS special conference in Geneva. He received his doctorate in management from INSEAD.

Wulf H Bernotat was appointed Chairman of the Board of Management and Chief Executive Officer of E.ON in 2003. E.ON, based in Duesseldorf, Germany, is one of the major public utility companies in Europe and member of the DAX stock index of major German companies. It came into existence through the 2000 merger of VEBA and VIAG, two energy companies. Wulf Bernotat had joined VEBA in 1996 and became a member of the Board in 1998. Wulf H. Bernotat received a doctorate in law from the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen. His first position was as a corporate attorney in the legal department of Shell AG in Hamburg. In 1981 Wulf Bernotat went to Shell's headquarter in London to become business development manager for Eastern Europe. He remained with Shell until 1996, working in various European offices with increasing amounts of responsibility: In London, he became Shell's coordinator of business interests in Africa, as well as of coal-business interests in the entire Southern Hemisphere; later in Lisbon, he was general manager for Shell in Portugal; and in France, he became a member of Shell Paris's Board of Management, responsible for downstream activities.

Philip Evans is a Senior Vice President in the Boston Office of the Boston Consulting Group. He founded BCG’s media and then multimedia practices and has consulted to corporations worldwide in the consumer goods, media and high technology industries. Blown to Bits, his book on the new economics of information was the best-selling book worldwide on technology and strategy in 2000. Philip Evans graduated with Double First Class Honors in economics from Cambridge University. He was a Harkness Fellow in the Economics Department at Harvard and also obtained an M.B.A with honors from the Harvard Business School.

Ulrike Bentlage has been Director for Corporate HR Strategy and Controlling at the Bertelsmann AG since 2007. She studied Mathematics and Literature in Muenster, Germany and Nantes, France. She started her career as a Director for Media and Education at the Bertelsmann Foundation in 1998. In 2001, she joined The Boston Consulting Group as General Management and Strategy Consultant with a focus on HR and Organization.

Steve David has been a Senior Advisor for Boston Consulting Group since 2005. He previously spent 34 years with Proctor & Gamble, where he held the roles of Chief Information Officer as well as Chief Business to Business Officer. He serves as Chairman of the Board for Iomega Corporation, and on the Boards of Institute for the Future and Kovio. As board members for Transora and the Uniform Code Council, he has helped develop data synchronization standards and the new world of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and its potential uses in business. He was recently named one of the twenty-five most influential executives by Consumer Goods Technology. Steve David has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska

Marion Horstmann is Head of Global Learning & Leadership Development with Siemens. She is also head of Leadership Excellence Program where she is responsible for developing and implementing executive learning program, which enables and strengthens Siemens global talent pool. She is also head of Learning Campus and head of Talent Acquisition. Marion Horstmann received her degree in Mathematics from the Technical University of Braunschweig, and attended INSEAD for her executive education in Strategic Management Tools & Systems.

Alexis von Hoensbroech is heading the department for strategy and investment management in the passenger airline division of Lufthansa German Airlines. Prior to joining Lufthansa in 2005, Alexis worked for The Boston Consulting Group in Munich and Tokyo. Alexis has an academic background, holding a PhD in Physics (Astrophysics) from the University of Bonn.

Peter F. Tropschuh currently serves as as Head of AutoUni with Vokswagen, Wolfsburg. He has developed academic and research input into the Group, with the focus on its practical operational relevance. Peter Tropschuh has held appointments with Audi which have included Senior Supervisor of Equipment Engineering and Body Testing, Head of Vehicle Concepts, Development Management. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Munich Technical University, specializing in "Engineering and development". His doctoral thesis dealt with "Computer-aided projection assisted by a knowledge-based system". Supported by his practical experience in automotive engineering.

René Obermann has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of its Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG since November 2006 and a Member of its Board of Management since 2002. Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading telecommunications and information technology service providers, more than half of the revenues are generated outside of Germany. René Obermann joined the Group in 1998 as the Managing Director Sales for T-Mobile Deutschland. In April 2000, he became Chief Executive Officer of T-Mobile Deutschland. From the end of 2002 to December 2006, he was CEO of T-Mobile International and the Deutsche Telekom Board Member for Mobile Communications. In this period, T-Mobile continued its growth course as one of the leading mobile operators in the world with more than 100 million customers, successfully introducing the T-Mobile brand in eleven countries. René Obermann's career began with a business traineeship at BMW in Munich. Following that, he set up his own business ABC Telekom in Münster in 1986. He became Managing Partner of Hutchison Mobilfunk GmbH, the successor of ABC Telekom, in 1991. From 1994 to 1998, Obermann was Chairman of the company's Management Board.

Philip Evans is a Senior Vice President in the Boston Office of the Boston Consulting Group. He founded BCG’s media and then multimedia practices and has consulted to corporations worldwide in the consumer goods, media and high technology industries. Blown to Bits, his book on the new economics of information was the best-selling book worldwide on technology and strategy in 2000. Philip Evans graduated with Double First Class Honors in economics from Cambridge University. He was a Harkness Fellow in the Economics Department at Harvard and also obtained an M.B.A with honors from the Harvard Business School.

Ramon Bacardit is Corporate Senior Vice President of Adhesives Technologies Research for Henkel AG & Co. KGaA in Duesseldorf. He joined Henkel Iberica in 1981 and has occupied different functions including R& D for Surface Technologies and Adhesives, Manufacturing, Commercial Management Adhesives, Business Management for Industrial Adhesives, Consumer Adhesives and Surface Treatment until 1997. He was the general manager of Henkel Mexico and responsible for the Latin America sector for Surface Treatment until the end of 2001. Since 2002 he has been a member of the board of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA. Ramon Bacardit holds a PhD in chemistry, business education from IESE.

Harald Borner is currently Senior Vice President of the Global Head Top Talent Management of SAP. As a part of the office of the CEO, he is responsible for driving strategy execution among senior executives. He previously served as Vice President in the senior leadership team of SAP’s corporate strategy group. Harald Borner maintained a variety of roles working with The Boston Consulting Group for ten years before joining SAP. He received his Doctoral degree in experimental particle physics from Oxford University.

Thorsten Huebschen is currently Manager of Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI) with Microsoft Germany. With an academic background in math and computer science, he has worked five years as a strategy consultant with McKinsey. In 2006, Thorsten Huebschen moved to Microsoft, where he now co-leads the Business Group Information Worker and is responsible for Office, Exchange, OCS and the whole Business Productivity Infrastructure.

Andreas Mueller is the founding Head of ERSTE University, the corporate university of Erste Group Bank AG, one of the major banks in Central and Eastern Europe. He previously held positions with Volkswagen AutoUni where he assisted in the establishment of the School of Science and Technology, and was responsible for the master's degree concept on "Sustainable Mobility" and for delivery of various learning content, ranging from Management of Technology to Mobile Aging. With Volkswagen AG, he was responsible for AutoUni's activities in Latin America and for the collaboration with the MIT. Andreas Mueller received his PhD in Geometry at the University of Karlsruhe.

Jay B. Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah. He previously served as the Professor of Management and held the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. His research focuses on how firms can gain and sustain competitive advantages. He has been an associate editor for the Journal of Management, a senior editor for Organization Science, a co-editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 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. Jay Barney is an SMS Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Lund, the Copenhagen Business School, and Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid), and has had honorary visiting professor positions in New Zealand and China.

Rich Bettis is the Ellison Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business of the University of North Carolina. He has won the SMJ Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper prize and been elected to the Fellows of SMS. He has served on the Academy of Management Board and on the Strategic Management Society Board, where he also served a 3-year term as President. He has been a Consulting Editor of the Academy of Management Review, and an Associate Editor of Management Science. In 1995 he became an SMJ Associate Editor and in 2007 became an SMJ Co-Editor where his term will expire at the end of 2015.

Rudi Bresser is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Prior to joining the Free University, he was a faculty member of the City University of New York at Baruch College. He has been a committed member of the SMS since 1984. Rudi has been a Conference Co-Chair of the 1999 Strategic Management Society Conference in Berlin, and he served as a member of several SMS-Conference Review Committees. Dr. Bresser is an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has been a member of the Journal’s Editorial Board for 13 years. He is a founding member of the European Management Review, and an ad hoc reviewer to a dozen scholarly management journals. He has published many scholarly articles in American and European refereed journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Omega, Organization Studies, European Management Review, Administration & Society, Zeitschrift fuer Betriebswirtschaft, Schmalenbach Business Review, and Die Betriebswirtschaft. He has authored or co-authored several books on management and strategic management topics. Professor Bresser maintains intensive contacts to the business and consulting communities. He is a former Managing Director of the business administration faculty at the Free University of Berlin.

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.

Will Mitchell is Professor of Business Administration in Strategy and the J. Rex Fuqua Professor of International Management at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He is a faculty associate of Duke’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Health Sector Management Program, and Global Health Initiative. Will Mitchell teaches corporate strategy, business dynamics, and health sector strategy in the MBA, MMS, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs at Duke, as well as in partnership programs in Africa and elsewhere. He studies business dynamics, focusing on how businesses in developed and emerging markets change as the competitive environments change and, in turn, how the business changes contribute to ongoing corporate success or failure. Will Mitchell is a former SMS board member, a member of the SMS Fellows Group, a co-editor of SMJ, an editorial board member of several strategy-related journals in North America, Asia, and Europe, and a board member of Neuland Laboratories, Ltd.

Dan Schendel is the Blake Family Endowed Chair Emeritus in Strategic Management at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University. His research work was the first to take new empirical directions in the strategy field away from traditional case methods by developing and testing mathematical performance models of strategy in the early 1970s. He has also done work on turnaround strategies, strategy across the life cycle, generic strategies, strategic groups, and planning systems. He is the author of a number of articles and cases in these and other related topic areas that have appeared in numerous leading publications. Dan Schendel is a fellow of the Academy of Management and is the former Dean of the SMS Fellows. He is also the founding president of the SMS. He received his doctorate from Stanford University.

Ed Zajac is the James F. Beré Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is an elected Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. Ed Zajac's research, teaching, and consulting focuses on strategic change, alliances, and corporate governance. He has been recognized as one of the “most highly cited researchers” worldwide in the Institute of Scientific Information’s yearly list of highly cited researchers (representing less than one-half of one percent of all published researchers). This year he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, and he was also recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. He served for many years as Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.