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CRES - Fourth Annual Foundations of Business Strategy Conference
Friday & Saturday, May 9-10, 2008

Friday, May 9

8:30-9:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:15-9:30 Welcome: Glenn MacDonald and Anne Marie Knott

(Names in bold are conference attendees.)

9:30 - 11:00 "Are All Managers Created Equal?"
Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto-Rotman School of Management) and
Botao Yang (University of Toronto-Rotman School of Management)
Discussant: Amitay Alter (Washington University-Olin Business School)
Paper (*PDF)

11:00 - 1:15 Lunch at "I Fratellini" Trasportation provided.

1:15 - 2:45 "The Organization of Search for Innovations,"
Tracy R. Lewis (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business) and
Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern University-Kellogg School of Management)
Discussant: Jeroen Swinkels (Washington University-Olin Business School)
Paper (*PDF)

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:30 "Completing Complements"
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, (Harvard Business School),
Barry Nalebuff (Yale School of Management) and
David Yoffie(Harvard Business School)
Discussant: Ignatius Horstmann (University of Toronto-Rotman School of Management)
Paper (*PDF)

6:00 Shuttle Pickup at both Simon Hall and Crowne Plaza St. Louis-Clayton Hotel for dinner at Missouri Botanical Garden.

Saturday, May 10

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast.

9:00 - 10:30 "Trust and Social Collateral"
Markus Mobius (Harvard University) and
Adam Szeidl (University of California-Berkeley)
Discussant: Rachel Croson
Paper (*PDF)

10:30- 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:15 "Does Interdependency Affect Industry Profitability? An Empirical Test"
Michael Lenox, (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business).
Scott Rockart (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business) and
Arie Lewin (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
Discussant: April Franco (University of Toronto-Rotman School of Managment )
Paper (*PDF)

12:15 Boxed Lunch in Simon Hall 241 or to go.