Jay Barney is currently a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and holds the Lassonde Chair in Social Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and his master¡¯s and PhD degrees from Yale University. Previously, he served on the faculties at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University, and as the Chase Chair for Excellence in Strategic Management at the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. He has also served as a visiting scholar at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and as a visiting professor at the Said Business School at Oxford University, United Kingdom. Most of Professor Barney¡¯s research focuses on how firms can gain and sustain competitive advantages. He has published over 100 articles in a variety of outlets, including the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, the Strategic Management Journal,the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, and has published six books, including a novel titled What I Didn¡¯t Learn at Business School: How Strategy Works in the Real World (with Trish Gorman). He has published some of the most widely cited papers in the field of strategic management. William Hesterly is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and the Dumke Family Presidential Chair of Strategic Management in the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. After studying at Louisiana State University, he received bachelor's and master¡¯s degrees from Brigham Young University and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Hesterly¡¯s research was recognized with the Western Academy of Management¡¯s Ascendant Scholar Award in 1999. Dr. Hesterly has also received best paper awards from the Western Academy of Management and the Academy of Management. Professor Hesterly has served on the editorial boards of Strategic Organization, OrganizationScience and the Journal of Management. He also served as the Senior Editor of Long Range Planning, the leading European journal in strategy. |