2025 Agenda
Sunday, May 4, 2025
| Time | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | Social Dinner | Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, 280 S Mangum St #100, Durham, NC 27701 |
Monday, May 5, 2025
The conference will take place in the Esbenshade Meeting Room of the Fuqua School of Business, 100 Fuqua Dr, Durham, NC 27708.
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:05 a.m. | Welcome (Sharon Belenzon, Duke Strategy Area Chair) |
| 9:05-9:15 a.m. | Introductions, Conference Overview |
| 9:15-10:00 a.m. | Keynote Speech (Sharique Hasan, Associate Professor of Strategy) |
| 10:00-10:15 a.m. | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Xizhao Wang (Kellogg, Northwestern) - Patenting and Information Disclosure Discussant: Katarzyna Swiech Lorenz Gschwent (Mercator, Duisburg-Essen) - Examining Examiner Leniency: Low Quality Patents, Their Causes, and Their Consequences Discussant: Qiujie Qiu Yuxuan Zhao (Tsinghua and Olin, WUSTL) - Why the Rush? Understanding the Timing of PCT National Entry from a Real Options Perspective Discussant: Yongyi Lin Seungmin Yoo (Questrom, Boston) - The Impact of Temporary Student Visa Extensions on Patenting: Evidence from STEM OPT Discussant: Ben Norton |
| 12:15-1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 p.m. | Sahiba Chopra (Haas, UC Berkeley) - When AI Obscures Effort: The Impact of AI on Social Exchange Dynamics in Organizations Discussant: Xizhao Wang Andy Buschmann (Ross, UMich) - When Does Hedging Backfire? How Corporate Political Connections to Opposing Political Parties Affect Firm Survival After Democratic Backsliding, Insights from the 2021 Coup in Myanmar Discussant: Lorenz Gschwent Ben Norton (Dyson, Cornell) - Learning to Compete: Experimental Evidence from Price Cuts in Urban Tanzania Discussant: Seungmin Yoo |
| 3:00-3:15 p.m. | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 3:15-4:45 p.m. | Katarzyna Swiech (Scheller, Georgia Tech) - Time Zone Penalty or Premium? The Impact of Temporal Distance on Collaboration Discussant: Andy Buschmann Qiujie Qiu (HOI,SSE) - Renewing Success or Inviting Pushback? The Effect of Novel Product Change on Product Quality Discussant: Sahiba Chopra Yongyi Lin (Rober H. Smith, Maryland) - Mandatory Disclosure and Firms’ R&D Decisions: Evidence from the FDA Amendments Act of 2007 Discussant: Yuxuan Zhao |
| 4:45-5:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |