Representative Publications
(with C. Zott)
Designing your Future Business Model: An activity System Perspective Long Range Planning.
(forthcoming 2009)
(with B. Villalonga)
How Are US Family Firms Controlled? Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming 2008).
(with C. Zott)
The Fit Between Product Market Strategy and Business Model: Implications for firm Performance Strategic Management Journal 29(1): 1-26 (January 2008).
(with C. Zott)
"Business Model Design and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms.” Organization Science 18(2) pp181-199 (March-April 2007).
(with B. Villalonga)
"How Do Family Ownership, Control and Management Affect Firm Value?" Journal of Financial Economics (May 2006).
(with S. Thornhill)
"Learning from Failure: Bankruptcy, Firm Age and the Resource-based View." Organizational Science 14.5: 497-509 (September/October 2003).
(with J. Brander and W. Antweiler)
"Venture Capital Syndication: Improved Venture Selection versus the Value Added Hypothesis."
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 11.3: 423-452 (Fall 2002).
(with C. Zott)
"Value Creation in e-Business."
Strategic Management Journal 22: 493-520 (2001).
(with P. Schoemaker)
"Strategic Assets and Organizational Rent."
Strategic Management Journal 14.1: 33-46 (1993).
Education
PhD, Northwestern University, 1977; MA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), 1975; BA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), 1973
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
The Greif Entrepreneurship Research Impact Award, 2007; European Corporate Governance Institute for best paper in Finance prize “Benefits and costs of control: Enhancing Mechanisms in U.S. Family Firms 2007; Strategic Management Journal Best Paper Prize "Strategic Assets and Organization Rents" (with Paul Schoemaker, Volume 14 Number 1, January 1993), 2000; McKinsey & Company/Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize Honorable Mention; 20th Annual International Conference October 2000, Vancouver, Canada, for "Value Drivers of e-Commerce Business Models" (with C. Zott), 2000; Ascendant Scholar Award, Western Academy of Management, 1993
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1999-present (named Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship, 1999; Academic Director, The Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs, 1999-present; Director, Wharton Electronic Business Initiative (WeBI), 2000-2004; Founder and Academic Director, The Wharton Global Family Alliance, 2004-present). Previous appointments: University of British Columbia; Northwestern University; Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Other Positions
Director, Personal Computer Products and Services, Data Resources, Inc., Lexington, MA, 1977-82; Senior Energy Economist and Director, Coal Service, 1980-82 (part-time basis)
Professional Leadership 2005-2009
Editorial Board, Strategic Management Journal, 1987-2007; Editorial Board, Organization Science, 1992-2002; Editorial Board, Journal of Business Venturing, 1994-2005; Editorial Board, European Management Journal, 2001-2007
Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009
Chairman, Board of Directors, Creo Products Inc. (NASDAQ symbol: CREO), 1996-2001; Board Member, Alvarion (NASDAQ symbol: ALVR), 2003-present
