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Collaboration and Dialogue

As a research institution of The Boston Consulting Group, the Strategy Institute seeks to collaborate with scholars. We encourage dialogue on strategy topics across disciplines. We have deep collaborations with select Academic Fellows as well as looser collaborations with academic research teams.

Simon Levin, Academic Fellow of the Strategy Institute

levin_simon_thumb_sm Simon is the Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, advising the Strategy Institute on translating biological models to business strategy. Simon’s research interests have been in complexity, and in understanding how macroscopic patterns and processes are maintained at the level of ecosystems and the biosphere, in terms of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that operate primarily at the level of organisms.

In recent years, he has turned his attention to the parallels between ecological systems and financial and economic systems, particularly with regard to what makes them vulnerable to collapse, and to the evolution and development of structure and organization. Much of his ecological research is concerned with the evolution of diversification, the mechanisms sustaining biological diversity in natural systems, and the implications for ecosystem structure and functioning.

The work integrates empirical studies and mathematical modeling, with emphasis upon how to extrapolate across scales of space, time and organizational complexity. The essential mathematical challenge is the development of macroscopic descriptions for the collective behavior of large and heterogeneous ensembles that are subject to continual evolutionary modification.

Specific attention is directed to the evolution and ecology of collective behavior, from the movements of flocks of birds and schools of fish to human decision-making. Current ecological systems of study include plant communities, as well as marine open-ocean and intertidal systems. He has been particularly interested in the management of public goods and common-pool resources.

In related work, Simon has been interested in the dynamics of infectious diseases and in particular in the self-organization of strain structure in influenza A. In addition, he has been involved in issues of sustainable development, with emphasis and on the linkages between environmental and socio-economic systems. His book, “Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons,” is an accessible introduction to the issues underlying the dynamics and management of ecological systems, with broad analogies to socioeconomic systems.

Research Team Collaboration: Can Uslay, Kate Karniouchina, and Ayca Altintig

Drs. Can Uslay, Kate Karniouchina, and Ayca Altintig focus their research on the performance implications of the complex interplay between strategy and market structure. Their current research supported by the Strategy Institute builds upon the “Rule of Three”, which can be can be traced back to a 1976 white paper by Bruce Henderson, the founder of BCG, who first observed that: “[a] stable competitive market never has more than three significant competitors...”.

Uslay_can_thumb_sm Can Uslay is Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. Dr. Uslay’s research interests lie broadly within marketing strategy and theory construction. His research has been published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, European Business Review, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Journal of Research in Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Marketing Education Review, and the Review of Marketing Research. He is a coauthor of Deregulation and Competition: Lessons from the Airline Industry (2007, Sage Publications) and editor of two book volumes.

Karniouchina_Ekaterina_thumb_sm Kate Karniouchina is Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. Her research concentrates on interdisciplinary issues, in particular she aims to improve managerial decision making by synthesizing insights from marketing, finance and strategy domains. Her research has been published or accepted for publication in various academic journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Marketing Letters, and the European Journal of Operational Research.

Altinig_Ayca_thumb_sm Z. Ayca Altintig is Assistant Professor of Finance in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. Dr. Altintig’s primary research interests are in the areas of corporate and international finance, primarily agency theory and industrial organization. Her research has been published in various journals, including the Journal of Business, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Industrial Economics.

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