2024 Utah Strategy Summit
August 5-8, 2024
By invitation only – Hosted by the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy
The 2024 Utah Strategy Summit builds on a history of strategy summits dating back to its launch in May 1977, bringing together leaders in the field, and featuring ten plenary panel sessions.
Venue
The 2024 Utah Strategy Summit will take place at the Stein Eriksen Lodge at the Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah – a 35-minute drive from Salt Lake City International Airport.
Watch Live
Although in-person attendance is by invitation only, we encourage others worldwide to view a livestream of the conference. A link will be available on August 3.
Sponsors
Ten Panel Sessions
What does the new industrial strategy mean for strategy?
PANEL LEADER: Ronnie Chatterji
Rajshree Agarwal
Exequiel Hernandez
Subi Rangan
Some would argue that the core strategy course has not fundamentally changed in decades. What needs to change?
PANEL LEADER: Juan Alcacer
Adam Brandenburger
Jan Rivkin
Jesper Sorensen
Ithai Stern
What would strategic management look like if it took stakeholders seriously?
PANEL LEADER: Anita McGahan
Sinzi Dorobantu
Claudine Gartenberg
Sergio Lazzarini
What should strategic management’s dependent variable be?
PANEL LEADER: Connie Helfat
Ron Adner
Bruce Kogut
Dan Levinthal
What does strategic management have to say about grand social problems?
PANEL LEADER: Michael Lenox
Vanessa Burbano
Olga Hawn
Vit Henisz
How will artificial intelligence reshape the practice of strategic management?
PANEL LEADER: Rob Seamans
Felipe Csaszar
Nan Jia
Raj Choudhury
The firm, the transaction, the business model, resources, the network, the ecosystem, the platform—is the proliferation of units of analysis healthy or unhealthy for the field?
PANEL LEADER: Myles Shaver
Mary Benner
Rahul Kapoor
Sampsa Samilla
How do we link theory and practice in strategy?
PANEL LEADER: Martin Reeves
JT Clark
Richard Whittington
Zia Yusuf
How far can we push toward causal identification in a field focused on novelty, uniqueness and complementarity?
PANEL LEADER: Victor Bennett
Brent Goldfarb
Hong Luo
Tim Simcoe
How is strategic management useful in a world of Knightian uncertainty?
PANEL LEADER: Nicolai Foss
Alfonso Gambardella
Michael Leiblein
Violina Rindova
At Large Delegates
At Large Delegates in the gray box below are from the University of Utah.
- Ruth Aguilera
- Gautum Ahuja
- Sharon Alvarez
- Nick Argyres
- Africa Ariño
- Flore Bridoux
- Arnaldo Camuffo
- Laurence Capron
- Olivier Chatain
- Guoli Chen
- Raj Choudhury
- Russ Coff
- David Collis
- Mark DesJardine
- Giada Di Stefano
- Gary Dushnitsky
- JP Eggers
- Kathy Eisenhardt
- Daniel Elfenbein
- Teppo Felin
- Tim Folta
- Vibha Gaba
- Giovanni Gavetti
- Javier Gimeno
- Melissa Graebner
- Michael Jacobides
- Riitta Katila
- Aseem Kaul
- Peter Klein
- Anne Marie Knott
- Tobias Kretschmer
- Rich Langlois
- Gwendolyn Lee
- Jin Li
- Marvin Lieberman
- Jiao Luo
- Jeff Macher
- Richard Makadok
- Anpu Mahalingam
- Costas Markides
- Kyle Mayer
- Kristina McElheran
- Jackson Nickerson
- Tomasz Obloj
- Kate Odziemkowska
- Lamar Pierce
- Francisco Polidoro
- Chris Poliquin
- Leo Pongeluppe
- Elizabeth Pontikes
- Laura Poppo
- Joe Porac
- Hart Posen
- Jeff Reuer
- Frank Rothaermel
- Michael Ryall
- Melissa Schilling
- Raffaella Sadun
- Sonali Shah
- Deepak Somaya
- Olav Sorenson
- Scott Stern
- J.W. Stoelhorst
- Gabriel Szulanski
- Tony Tong
- Thomaz Teodorovicz
- Mary Tripsas
- Eric Van den Steen
- Heli Wang
- Libby Weber
- Margarethe Wiersema
- Brian Wu
- Dennis Yao
- Thomas Zellweger
- Peter Zemsky
- Anthea Zhang
- Minyuan Zhao
- Maggie Zhou
Panel Leaders

Juan Alcacer
James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School
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Victor Bennett
Professor, Entrepreneurship & Strategy, David Eccles School of Business
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Ronnie Chatterji
Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor, Duke University
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Nicolai Foss
Professor of Strategy,
Copenhagen Business School
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Constance Helfat
J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy,
Tuck School of Business
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Michael Lenox
Professor of Business, Senior Faculty Fellow UVA Miller Center, Senior Advisor to Dean,
University of Virginia
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Anita McGahan
Professor, Strategic Management, George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society, University of Toronto
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Martin Reeves
Managing Director & Senior Partner, Chairman,
BCG Henderson Institute
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Rob Seamans
Professor, Management and Organizations, Director, Center for the Future of Management,
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Myles Shaver
Professor, Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Corporate Strategy,
Carlson School of Management
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