Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor of Management and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He has over 200 publications and coauthored or coedited 26 books. He has served on the editorial review boards of multiple journals and a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal. He is currently the co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He is a Fellow in the Strategic Management Society and in the Academy of Management, and a Research Fellow in the National Entrepreneurship Consortium. He is a former President of the Academy of Management, the current Past President of the Strategic Management Society. He received awards for the best article published in the Academy of Management Executive (1999), Academy of Management Journal (2000) and the Journal of Management (2006). In 2001, he received the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management.

Yasemin Y. Kor is an Associate Professor of Management in the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Kor received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on three topics in the field of strategy: (1) development and renewal of firm resources and capabilities, (2) top management teams, and (3) corporate governance. The first stream of her research examines how firms develop and deploy their technology and human assets to generate entrepreneurial rents and competitive advantage. The second research area deals with how entrepreneurial skills, experiences, and interactions of top managers shape firms’ strategic choices including opportunity recognition and team entrepreneurship. Third stream of her research focuses on human and social capital of board directors, and interactions between board outside directors and executives. Dr. Kor’s research was published in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Management and Governance, and International Journal of Strategic Change Management.

Jeffrey J. Reuer is the Blake Family Endowed Chair in Strategic Management and Governance at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, where he is also the Area Coordinator. Before joining Purdue, he was the Boyd W. Harris, Jr. Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Strategic Management at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina. He has also served on the faculties of INSEAD and Ohio State University. He was the first recipient of the Strategic Management Society’s Emerging Scholar Award for research, education, and related academic activities.

Professor Reuer has led courses and seminars on business and corporate strategy, strategic investment decisions, and strategic alliances in MBA and Ph.D. programs as well as for organizations such as Areva, Eli Lilly, Ernst and Young, Euroforum, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, LG, NEC, Owens Corning, Pfizer, Philips International BV, and the World Bank. He has taught in executive education programs at Harvard Business School, Duke University, INSEAD, and the Indian School of Business. He is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, for the best core course in the weekend executive MBA program.

Professor Reuer’s research is in the area of corporate strategy, and his current work uses information economics and options theory to examine firms’ external corporate development activities. Recent projects are on the design and performance of alliances and M&A, alliance governance, the roles IPOs play in acquisition markets, and the performance implications of firms’ growth options. His research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Organization, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Managerial and Decision Economics. He has presented papers at more than fifty universities throughout the world. The results of his work have also appeared as practice-oriented articles and research briefings in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Financial Times, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and Long Range Planning. His books are entitled Strategic Alliances: Theory and Evidence (Oxford), Handbook of Strategic Alliances (Sage), Strategic Alliances: Governance and Contracts (Palgrave Macmillan), and Real Options Theory (Elsevier).

Professor Reuer serves as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. He also serves or has served in the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Business Venturing. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award from the Strategic Management Journal and the Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of International Business Studies as well as the Journal of Management Studies. He is a program chair of the Strategic Management Society’s international conference in Washington, DC. He has also been active in the profession by serving on the executive committee and research committee of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, leading developmental workshops and consortia for faculty and doctoral students, and organizing several conferences in the US and Europe.