CURRICULUM VITAE MARIE LOUISE MORS Marts Copenhagen Business School Phone:

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE MARIE LOUISE MORS Marts 2013 Copenhagen Business School Phone: Kilevej Frederiksberg Denmark ACADEMIC POSITIONS Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark Professor with special responsibilities, Strategic Management and Globalization London Business School, London, United Kingdom Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship (formerly Strategic and International Management) Leave of absence, academic year London Business School, London, United Kingdom Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA Post-Doctoral Fellow EDUCATION INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France PhD in Management specializing in Strategy Dissertation: Accessing and Transferring Opportunities and Resources in Global Networks. Committee: Thomas D Aunno; Miklos Sarvary; Herminia Ibarra; Subramanian Rangan Norwegian School of Management, Sandvika, Norway Bachelor and Master of Business and Economics Thesis: Control in Project-Based Organizations Babson College, Boston, MA Exchange on the MBA program RESEARCH INTERESTS - Competition for resources and opportunities in global firms - Innovation and knowledge sharing processes across firm and geographic boundaries

2 - Formal and informal boundaries of the firm - Social networks - Professional services and multinational firms PUBLICATIONS Innovation in a global consulting firm: When the problem is too much diversity. Strategic Management Journal, August 2010, 31(8): The investment of individual resources in professional relationships (with Michelle Rogan). Academy of Management Best Paper Conference Proceedings, Competing for jobs: Labor queues and gender sorting in the hiring process (with Roberto M Fernandez). Social Science Research, December 2008, 37(4): Knowledge sharing in organizations: Multiple networks, multiple phases. (with Morten T Hansen and Bjørn Løvås). Academy of Management Journal, October 2005, 48(5): WORKING PAPERS A Bridge too Far: Spanning different boundaries and the effects on exploration performance. (with Susan Lynch, HBS). Under Review at Journal of Management Ambidextrous managers and their networks (with Michelle Rogan, INSEAD). Under Review at Organization Science. The investment of resources in professional relationships (with Michelle Rogan, INSEAD). Cultural Brokers: How multicultural networks affect job performance. (with Canny Zou, London Business School). Reversing the flow of influence: Networks, power, and resistance to organizational change (with Susan Lynch, INSEAD). WORK IN PROGRESS Collaboration and knowledge flows across firm and geographic boundaries (with Lee Fleming, Harvard Business School and David Waguespack, Robert H. Smith School of Business, U of Maryland) Resource flows and financial performance in a multinational enterprise (with Michelle Rogan, INSEAD) Golden prisons: Do Simmelian ties really torture? (with Miklos Sarvary, INSEAD) Managing your professional network (with Michelle Rogan and Susan Lynch, INSEAD) When are social networks better? Intra-organizational resource transfers in the face of competition. CONFERENCE AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS - Druid Conference, Copenhagen Business School, June Multi- and Micro-Level Issues in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School, October Novak Druce Annual PSF 2

3 Conference, Said Business School, Oxford University, July Ambidextrous managers and their networks. - Norwegian School of Management, December University of Southern Denmark, December Toulouse School of Economics, April Boundary spanning across knowledge domains and the effects on exploration. - Keio University, Tokyo, June, Utilizing networks in global firms. - Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, August Druid Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, June 2009, INSEAD Network Evolution Conference, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, October The investment of individual resources in professional relationships. - London School of Economics, November University of Southern Denmark, November École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, December Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, August Strategy Research Forum, Annapolis, MD, May AIM Workshop on Innovation and Networks, Imperial College London, UK, May SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy, May Druid Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, June MIT Sloan BPS Mini Conference, MIT Cambridge, May A bridge too far: Informal ties across formal boundaries and individual exploration performance. - Druid Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, June Reversing the flow of influence: Networks, power, and resistance to organizational change. - Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, August American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August Boundary spanners and brokers: Effects on individual exploration performance. - London Business School, London, UK, February Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, June Innovation in a global firm: The role of informal networks when the problem is too much diversity. - Carnegie Bosch Institute, 7th Biennial International Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, September Creating new knowledge in a global firm: How managers use networks to integrate diverse information. - American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August Competing for jobs: Queues and gender sorting in the hiring process. - Academy of Management, Honolulu, Hawaii, August Networks and financial performance: The role of internal ties in accessing opportunities. - MIT-Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, March Knowledge creation in a global firm: When the problem is too much diversity. - Academy of Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, August Strategy/OB Seminar Series, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, December HEC School of Management, Paris, December Knowledge creation in global networks. - Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference in Business Research, London Business School, May/June Using global networks to develop new knowledge. - Academy of Management, Denver, Colorado, August Shifting and acquiring resources and opportunities in global networks. - Academy of International Business, Sydney, Australia, November Local resources and global opportunities: The effect of global network ties on managerial performance in different economic environments. 3

4 ACADEMIC AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE London Business School, London, UK MBA/Executive MBA/Sloan elective: Global Strategy and Management (evaluation average: 4.0/5.0) PhD seminar: Strategy Process (evaluation average: 4.8/5.0) EMBA / MBA Core Course: Understanding General Management (evaluation average 4.0/5.0) London Business School, London, UK Graded MBA core strategy exams and assisted with development of teaching materials Paris Graduate School of Management (ESG), France Co-graded MBA theses projects and oral theses defenses INSEAD, Research Assistant, France Developed teaching material for and participated in teaching of executives Center for Baltic Development, Lecturer, Norway & Lithuania Taught, examined and graded four business courses at Vilnius University and University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania to undergraduate business students. OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE Ad-hoc Consulting and Teaching with variety of firms Included teaching global strategy to mid-level managers at global engineering and consulting firm and sessions on strategic networks to senior managers at an engineering company; expert academic participant at Tuck round-table on global digital strategies (included senior executives from BT, BMW, Holcim, KLM, and Nestle) MLM Strategy Consulting Ltd., Independent Consultant Established own consulting firm. Worked on a wide range of consulting projects. The largest projects involved: Advice on Online Strategy of Large Media and Communications Firm, UK Conducted strategic analysis of the online business of a multinational media and communications firm. Administered firm wide survey, interviewed product managers and prepared database for all online products. Presented recommendations for future focus to senior management. Advice on Growth Strategies to Large Industrial Conglomerate, Germany Advised top management of one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Europe ($50 billion in annual revenues) on growth strategies and the role of corporate identity. Annual Planning Conference of Dutch Private Bank, Netherlands Analyzed survey given to senior managers on strategy, structure, processes, and organization. Led multiple focus groups as part of annual planning conference. SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS - London Business School Research and Materials Development Fund ( ) 4

5 - London Business School Chris Ingram Research Fund ( ) - INSEAD PhD Scholarship ( ) - Sasakawa Foundation Young Leaders Fellowship ( and ) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES - Member of Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, American Sociological Association, Strategic Management Society and the Strategy Research Forum. - Reviewer for the AoM meetings OMT division (2012), BPS division ( ), IM division (2005), Druid conference (2009, 2010) - Ad-hoc reviewer for the Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, and The Sociological Quarterly PERSONAL INFORMATION AND INTERESTS Danish citizen, married, two children. Languages: Fluent Danish / English; competent in Norwegian, Swedish, and German; some French. Enjoy the outdoors: Running, horse riding, fly fishing, skiing and rock climbing. 5