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Emilie Feldman, PhD, Michael L. Tarnopol Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Emilie R. Feldman is the Michael L. Tarnopol Professor and professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where she studied Economics and French Literature, and she received her MBA and DBA in Strategy from the Harvard Business School. Her dissertation won the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research at the Harvard Business School and was a finalist for the Wiley-Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management. She received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Strategic Management Society in 2017 and was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants in 2019.

Professor Feldman’s research focuses on corporate strategy and governance, with particular interests in the role that divestitures, spinoffs, and mergers and acquisitions play in corporate reconfiguration; the internal functioning of multi-business firms; and the impact that large shareholders have on strategic decision making and outcomes. Her research has been published in top academic journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review. Her scholarship has been recognized with numerous accolades, including the Best Conference Paper Award from the Strategic Management Society and two Distinguished Paper Awards from the Academy of Management. Her work has been featured extensively in popular press outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and Fortune.

Emilie teaches courses on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate strategy, and corporate governance in the undergraduate, MBA, law, PhD, and executive programs at Wharton and Penn. She received the Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017 and the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award every year since 2018. She has served as an external consultant, expert witness, and collaborator to numerous corporations and professional services companies. Her first book, Divestitures: Creating Value Through Strategy, Structure, and Implementation, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2022.

Matthew Bidwell, PhD, Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Matthew Bidwell is a professor in Wharton’s Management Department. His research uses people analytics to study career patterns and staffing in the new economy. He has conducted detailed research on how firms balance internal mobility and hiring in staffing jobs and what the effects of those different strategies are. He has also studied how highly skilled contractors are used within firms, the effects of their relationships with staffing firms, and who goes into such contracting. His work has been published in academic journals and featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. It has also been recognized with Scholarly Achievement Awards from the Academy of Management Human Resources Division and Administrative Science Quarterly journal, and the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association. He currently serves as a senior editor at Organization Science and is a faculty co-director of the Wharton People Analytics Initiative.

Professor Bidwell holds a PhD from the MIT Sloan School and previously earned an SM in Political Science from MIT and an MChem from Oxford. Prior to Wharton, he taught at INSEAD and worked at McKinsey and Company.

Zeke Hernandez, PhD, Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Professor Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez is the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Assistant Professor. He studies how firms strategically use formal and informal external relationships to internationalize, innovate, and enhance their performance. His research is motivated by a pervasive managerial challenge: firms do not own all the resources they need to be successful and thus have to reach beyond their organizational and national boundaries to get them. This leads firms to establish external relationships with collaborators and rivals, domestically and internationally. Professor Hernandez’s research explores how firms strategically access and manage these external relationships (i.e. their antecedents) and how such relationships affect globalization, innovation, and performance (i.e. their consequences). He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and before joining Wharton, he was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Rahul Kapoor, PhD, David W. Hauck Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Rahul Kapoor is the David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In his research, Rahul focuses on the management of industry disruption and ecosystems related to new technologies and business models. He has published numerous articles on these topics in leading peer-reviewed and practitioner journals from a perspective of both established firms and start-ups. He is the past chairperson of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management. He also serves as an associate editor of the Strategic Management Journal and is on the editorial boards of Organization Science and Strategy Science. At Wharton, Rahul teaches undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and PhD courses on technology and innovation strategy. He is also an active contributor to Wharton Executive Education, teaching in both the customized and open-enrollment programs.

Rahul has received several awards for his research and teaching, including the inaugural Academy of Management (Technology and Innovation Management Division) Emerging Scholar Award, the Strategic Management Journal Best Paper Prize, and Wharton Teaching Excellence Award over multiple years. He has also advised and consulted for several firms with respect to launching new innovation initiatives. Prior to joining academia, he spent more than seven years in the high-tech industry, where he worked for Texas Instruments and was involved with two start-ups, one of which he co-founded.

A. Craig MacKinlay, PhD, Joseph P. Wargrove Professor of Finance, The Wharton School

A former member of the Board of Directors of the American Finance Association and the NASD Economic Advisory Board, MacKinlay has research interests that include empirical implementation and validation of asset pricing models, measuring investment performance, pricing of futures contracts, microstructure of financial markets, assessment of credit risk, and statistical methods in finance. In addition to teaching, he is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. MacKinlay is the co-author of two books, the Econometrics of Financial Markets and A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street.

Mary-Hunter McDonnell, JD, PhD, Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Mary-Hunter (“Mae”) McDonnell is a Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential associate professor and an associate professor of management at the Wharton School. She holds a PhD in Management and Organizations from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management as well as a JD from Harvard Law School. Previously, she has held faculty positions at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and Northwestern University Law School.

Professor McDonnell studies organizational behavior and governance within challenging institutional contexts, such as contentious social environments and uncertain regulatory environments. She has published award-winning research in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological Review, Organization Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science, as well as law reviews including the Cornell Law Review and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and the Academy of Management Journal.