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| Managing Emerging Technologies |
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Sponsor: William and Phyllis Mack Center for Technological Innovation of the Wharton School Moderator: Harbir Singh, The Mack Professor; Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovation Panelists: Adam Kalish, Nicolaj Siggelkow , Gregory L. Summe |
| Friday, April 13 - 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m :: Full Summit Schedule |
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Emerging technologies can create new industries or disrupt existing industries. In the context of emerging technologies, a major problem faced by managers is making strategic decisions in the face of high uncertainty. In addition, firms need to develop adaptive capabilities to deal with the opportunities and challenges posed by such technologies. This panel features research on emerging technologies conducted at Wharton's Mack Center for Technological Innovation. In one of this panel's research presentations, we discuss how firms adapt to changing environments. Uncertain environments require firms to search for new, valuable configurations of activities and adapt their existing business models. Our research sheds light on the role played by organizational structure in guiding and hindering firms' attempts to explore and adapt. Another part of the panel discussion addresses the capabilities needed by firms to effectively work in alliances and networks. |
| Panelists |
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:: Adam Kalish
PartnerLux Capital Management Adam Kalish is a partner at Lux Capital Management, an investment firm focused on de novo, seed and early stage investments in the physical and life sciences. Before joining Lux, he served as a director of Everest Capital, a several billion dollar hedge fund with a multi-strategy, globally opportunistic approach. Prior to Everest, he spent more than three years with Quellos Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar alternative investment firm. He also worked at DreamWorks SKG in Los Angeles, where he reported directly to the president of the Studio. Mr. Kalish holds dual degrees in Economics and Communications from the University of Miami. He also studied Economics and Finance at the University of Westminster in London, England. Mr. Kalish has previously spoken at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Miami Business School, where he was later featured in the alumni magazine. He was invited as an honoree to help open the NASDAQ market. Mr. Kalish has been a coach for the Special Olympics and is an avid supporter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. |
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:: Nicolaj Siggelkow
Associate Professor of ManagementThe Wharton School Nicolaj Siggelkow is an associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the strategy area coordinator of Wharton's Management Department. His current research focuses on the strategic and organizational implications of interactions among a firm's choices of activities and resources. His recent papers study the evolution of activity systems and the strategic consequences of contextual interactions among activities. Other research projects include agent-based simulation models of organizational design and a large-scale study of developmental growth trajectories in the mutual fund industry. Professor Siggelkow has been the recipient of multiple MBA and Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Awards, including the Class of 1984 Award presented to the faculty member with the highest teaching rating in the MBA classroom, the Wharton Award, and the Wharton Graduate Association Student Choice Award. His research has been published in the leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Industrial Economics, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization. In 2000, he received the Best Conference Paper Prize of the Strategic Management Society Meeting. Professor Siggelkow is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Academy of Management Perspectives. Professor Siggelkow studied Economics at Stanford University and earned an MA in Economics from Harvard University. He received a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. |
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:: Gregory L. Summe , WG'83
Chairman, CEO, and PresidentPerkinElmer, Inc. Gregory L. Summe is the chairman, CEO and president of PerkinElmer, Inc. He joined the company in January 1998 in the role of president and COO and in 1999 was elected CEO and chairman of the Board. Mr. Summe has led PerkinElmer, Inc. for nine years. During his tenure at PerkinElmer, he has transformed the company from a diversified defense contractor to a global technology leader in Health Sciences and Photonics. The company is the world leader in many of its markets, including neonatal testing for inherited diseases, digital x-ray detectors for medical imaging, and scientific research instruments for drug discovery and development. Prior to joining PerkinElmer, Mr. Summe was with AlliedSignal, now Honeywell International, serving successively as the president of General Aviation Avionics, president of Aerospace Engines, and president of the Automotive Products Group. Before joining AlliedSignal, he was the general manager of Commercial Motors at General Electric and became a partner with the consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., Inc. Mr. Summe holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky and the University of Cincinnati, and an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published a number of articles in the Harvard Business Review, Electronic Business, and various technical journals. Mr. Summe is active with a variety of charitable and educational institutions, and was the 2004 Massachusetts recipient of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Humanitarian Award. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the State Street Corporation, and is a former director of the TRW Corporation. |
