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.

Panel Leaders

Juan Alcacer

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

Constance Helfat
J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy,
Tuck School of Business
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Michael Lenox

Michael Lenox
Professor of Business, Senior Faculty Fellow UVA Miller Center, Senior Advisor to Dean,
University of Virginia
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Anita McGahan

Anita McGahan
Professor, Strategic Management, George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society, University of Toronto
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Martin Reeves

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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