CURRICULUM VITAE Melissa E. Graebner Department of Management McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin 2110 Speedway, Stop B6300 Austin, Texas 78712-0210 Melissa.Graebner@mccombs.utexas.edu (512) 471-7057 EDUCATION: Ph. D. Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Concentration in Organization and Strategy. M.B.A. Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. M.S. B.S. Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University. Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Industrial Engineering. Industrial Engineering, Stanford University. Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT: 2010 present Associate Professor of Management, University of Texas at Austin Associate Director, Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship 2003 2009 Assistant Professor of Management, University of Texas at Austin RESEARCH INTERESTS: Merger and acquisition decision-making and performance Entrepreneurial resource acquisition Strategy in nascent firms Trust asymmetries in interfirm relationships Entrepreneurial family businesses Comparative case studies and other qualitative research methods Melissa E. Graebner 1
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: Roundy, P.T, and Graebner, M. 2013. Can Stories Shape Strategy? Narrative- Structured Information and Strategic Decision Making. Academy of Management Proceedings. Graebner, M., Martin, J., and Roundy, P., 2012. Qualitative Data: Cooking Without a Recipe. Strategic Organization, 10: 276-284. Graebner, M., Eisenhardt, K., and Roundy, P., 2010. Success and Failure in Technology Acquisitions: Lessons for Buyers and Sellers. Academy of Management Perspectives, 24, 73-92. Westphal, J., and Graebner, M., 2010. A Matter of Appearances: How Corporate Leaders Manage the Impressions of Financial Analysts About the Conduct of Their Boards. Academy of Management Journal, 53: 15-43. ** Lead article ** Press coverage: The Economist Graebner, M., 2009. Caveat Venditor: Trust Asymmetries in Acquisitions of Entrepreneurial Firms. Academy of Management Journal, 52: 435-472. ** Recipient of Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award for 2009 ** Lead article ** Press coverage: New York Times Dealbook, Forbes.com, M&A Journal, Le Monde McDonald, M., Westphal, J., and Graebner, M., 2008. What Do They Know? The Effects of Outside Director Acquisition Experience on Firm Acquisition Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 29: 1155-1177. Eisenhardt, K., and Graebner, M., 2007. Theory Building from Cases: Opportunities and Challenges. Academy of Management Journal, 50: 25-32. Graebner, M., 2004. Momentum and Serendipity: How Acquired Leaders Create Value in the Integration of Technology Firms. Strategic Management Journal, 25: 751-777. ** An earlier version appeared in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings, 2003. Graebner, M., and Eisenhardt, K., 2004. The Seller s Side of the Story: Acquisition as Courtship and Governance as Syndicate in Entrepreneurial Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49: 366-403. ** Reprinted in A. Ginsburg (Ed.), 2010. Strategies for New Venture Development, Cheltenham, UK: Elgar. BOOK CHAPTERS: Kyprianou, C., Graebner, M., and Rindova, V. Strategic Conversations: Methods for Data Collection and Analysis. In Elsbach K. and Kramer R. (Eds.), Handbook of Innovative Melissa E. Graebner 2
Qualitative Research Methods: Pathways to Cool Ideas and Interesting Papers. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, forthcoming. Greenbaum, B., and Graebner, M. Kathleen Eisenhardt. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Forthcoming, 2015. WORKING PAPERS: Graebner, M., Huy, Q., Vaara, E., and Heimeriks, K. Taking Process Dynamics Seriously: A Review and Agenda for Future Research on Post-Merger Integration. Proposal for Academy of Management Annals. Revise and resubmit. Heimeriks K. and Graebner M. Vicarious and Deliberate Learning and Acquisition Integration Performance. Roundy P., Graebner M., and Han S. Can Stories Shape Strategy? Narrative-Structured Information and Strategic Decision Making. Paradoxes of Resource Acquisition in Entrepreneurial Family Firms. (with P. Roundy and S. Han). Business Model Development in Nascent Firms (with V. Rindova and C. Kyprianou). Strange Bedfellows: Power and Politics in Post-Merger Integration. (with K. Heimeriks). Proposal accepted at Organization Science Winter Conference, 2015. REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: The Best of Both Worlds? Paradoxes of Resource Acquisition in a Family-Owned Technology Venture, West Coast Research Symposium, Seattle, 2014. Post-Merger Integration: Research, Practice and Teaching, speaker, Academy of Management meeting, Philadelphia, 2014. Learning to Manage Corporate Development Portfolios, speaker, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Atlanta, 2013. Publishing Strategic Management Research, speaker, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Atlanta, 2013. Post-Merger Integration: Research, Practice & Teaching, speaker, professional development workshop, Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, 2012. Using M&A as a Context to Study Knowledge Transfer & Collaboration across Organizational Boundaries, speaker, professional development workshop, Academy of Management meeting, Montreal, 2010. Melissa E. Graebner 3
Using M&A as a Context to Study Knowledge Transfer, Learning, and Coordination in Organizations, speaker, professional development workshop, Academy of Management meeting, Anaheim, 2008. Substance versus Symbolism in Board Independence: How CEOs Manage Impressions of Financial Analysts, paper (with J. Westphal) presented at Academy of Management meeting, Anaheim, 2008. Using M&A as a Context for Studying Organizations, organizer, professional development workshop, Academy of Management meeting, Atlanta, 2006. Knowledge, Action, and the Public Concern: The Role of Case Studies, symposium panelist, Academy of Management meeting, Atlanta, 2006. The Hidden Dangers of Embeddedness: Trust and Betrayal in Entrepreneurial Acquisitions, paper presented at West Coast Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Seattle, 2005. A Theory of Nascent Organizations?: Contributions of Research in Entrepreneurial Contexts, symposium panelist, Academy of Management meeting, Honolulu, 2005. The Downside of Embeddedness: Social Relationships in Acquisition Negotiations, poster session, Organization Science Winter Conference, Steamboat Springs, 2005. ** Very Interesting Paper Award Momentum and Serendipity: How Acquired Leaders Create Value in the Integration of Technology Firms, paper presented at Academy of Management meeting, Seattle, 2003. ** Finalist, Louis Pondy Award for Best Paper from a Dissertation, Organization and Management Theory Division. ** Selected for Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings Seller Decision-Making in Acquisitions of Entrepreneurial Firms, paper (with K. Eisenhardt) presented at Academy of Management meeting, Washington, D.C., 2001. A Review of Recent Research on Mergers and Acquisitions, paper presented at Academy of Management meeting, Chicago, 1999. INVITED PRESENTATIONS: The Best of Both Worlds? Paradoxes of Resource Acquisition in a Family-Owned Technology Venture, University of California at Irvine, 2014. Qualitative Research Methods (visiting faculty, co-taught doctoral seminar), INSEAD, Singapore, 2013. Melissa E. Graebner 4
Qualitative Data: Cooking Without a Recipe, speaker, Research Panel on Qualitative Methods and Creative Research, International Academy of Chinese Management Research (IACMR) Business Meeting, Boston, 2012. Qualitative Approaches for West Meets East, Idea Development Workshop for Academy of Management Journal Special Research Forum, hosted by International Academy of Chinese Management Research and Guanghua Leadership Institute, Peking University, October 2011. Qualitative Research in Management: Embracing Variety or Anything Goes? George Mason University, April 2011. Working with Qualitative Data and the Comparative Case Method, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, January 2011. Models of Boundary-Spanning Research: The Case of M&A, Sumantra Ghoshal Conference on Managerially-Relevant Research, London Business School, May 2009. Caveat Venditor: Trust Asymmetries in Entrepreneurial Acquisitions, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, June 2008. Images of Entrepreneurship in Mike s World, with John S. Butler, Blanton Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, October 2007. Caveat Venditor: Trust and Seller s Remorse in Entrepreneurial Acquisitions, IESE, Barcelona, Spain, April 2007. Seller s Remorse: Trust and Disillusionment in Entrepreneurial Acquisitions, University of Maryland Smith Entrepreneurship Research Conference, April 2006. Seller s Remorse: Trust and Disillusionment in Entrepreneurial Acquisitions, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2006. Betrayal in Embedded Relationships, BYU-Utah Winter Strategy Conference, February 2006. TEACHING: Introduction to Research Methods PhD. Fall 2014. Strategy for Technology Commercialization MSTC. Fall 2011- Fall 2014. Introduction to Entrepreneurship MBA. Fall 2003 Spring 2014. (formerly Entrepreneurial Management) Entrepreneurial Management Undergraduate. Fall 2004 Fall 2007. Melissa E. Graebner 5
DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY SERVICE: Associate Director, Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, 2010 present. Department Committee Service: Tenure Committees (member, 2012, 2014); Faculty Third- Year Review Committees (member, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013); Ad Hoc Promotion Committee for Lecturer (chair, 2006); Executive Committee (member, 2005-06); Ph.D. Recruiting Committee (member); Doctoral Dissertation Committee (chair (3)); (member (4)); Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Committee (member); Faculty Recruiting Committees (member); Speaker Series Co-Coordinator (2005-2006). College Committee Service: Faculty Research Committee, 2010 2014 (member). University Committee Service: Faculty Panel for Bridging Disciplines Program on Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (member). PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Editorial Review Board: Administrative Science Quarterly, 2015 present Editorial Review Board: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2015 - present. Editorial Review Board: Academy of Management Journal, 2007 present. Editorial Review Board: Strategic Management Journal, 2008 present. Editorial Review Board: Strategic Organization, 2011 present. Editorial Review Board: Oxford Research Reviews, 2012 present. Editorial Board: Strategy Science, 2014 present. Executive Committee Member, Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management, 2012 2014. Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management, 2012 2014. Representative-at-Large, Strategy Process Interest Group, Strategic Management Society, 2014 present. Panelist: What Should I Do With This Paper? professional development workshop, Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, 2012. Research Advisor, Guanghua Leadership Institute, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, 2011 2012. Melissa E. Graebner 6
Reviewer: Organization Science; Academy of Management Review; Management and Organization Review; Management Science; Journal of Management Studies; Research Policy; National Science Foundation; INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award Committee, 2011. Session Chair: Corporate-Level Strategies: The Good, Bad, and Ugly, Academy of Management meeting, Montreal, 2010. Facilitator: Doctoral Consortium, Organization and Management Theory and Managerial and Organizational Cognition Divisions, Academy of Management meeting, Anaheim, 2008. Member: Academy of Management (Business Policy and Strategy, Organization and Management Theory, Technology and Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship Divisions); INFORMS; Strategic Management Society. OTHER EMPLOYMENT: 2001 2003 Associate, Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice, McKinsey & Co., San Francisco, CA Consulted with Fortune 500 clients on merger and acquisition implementation, private equity investing, and growth strategies. 1995-1996 Acquisition and Divestiture Projects, Fibreboard Corporation, Truckee, CA Identified synergies between existing and newly-acquired properties in Resort Group. Worked with operational managers at multiple sites to exploit potential cost savings. 1993-1995 Consultant, Monitor Company, Los Angeles, CA Assisted a variety of Fortune 500 clients with strategic decision-making and operational effectiveness issues. HONORS & AWARDS: Public Voices Fellow, Op-Ed Project, 2014-2015. CBA Foundation Advisory Council Centennial Fellowship, 2012. Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award for 2009 (Awarded 2010). McCombs MBA Applause Award, Fall 2009. Department nominee for McCombs Award for Research Excellence, Spring 2011. Melissa E. Graebner 7
Department nominee for CBA Foundation Advisory Council Award for Teaching Innovation, Spring 2010. Department nominee for CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, Spring 2007, 2009, 2010. Department nominee for Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors, Spring 2005, 2006, 2007. McCombs MBA Faculty Honor Roll, Fall 2003. Very Interesting Paper Award, Organization Science Winter Conference, 2005. Finalist, Louis Pondy Award for Best Paper from a Dissertation, Academy of Management, Organization and Management Theory Division, 2003. Melissa E. Graebner 8