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Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting
Business Policy & Strategy Division
August 5, 2000
Toronto, Ontario
Present: Bill Bogner, Bert Cannella, Ming-Jer Chen, Russ Coff, Diana L. Day, Avi Fiegenbaum, Javier Gimeno, Ranjay Gulati, Dawn Harris, David Ketchen, Bruce T. Lamont, Bente R. Lowendahl, Peter Lane, Anita M. McGahan, Steve Phelan, and Jim Westphal. (Gabriel Szulanski and Aks Zaheer were absent.)
The meeting began at 1:15 pm.
- Reports
- Opening Remarks – Diana Day welcomed the executive committee members to the meeting and briefly described the agenda.
- Treasurer’s Report – Bill Bogner reported that the division’s finances are in excellent shape. Our surplus is slated to be $900 over the maximum allowed by the Academy. Discussion ensued about expenses that could be pre-paid for 2001 in order to eliminate this problem.
- Approval of Minutes from Winter Executive Committee Meeting – Bruce Lamont noted that the minutes from the Winter Meeting had been distributed electronically. The minutes were approved.
- Electronic Newsletter - Diana Day asked if the division members happy with the electronic newsletter. The group replied that members are indeed happy with it. Bill Bogner noted that the division is saving substantial funds because of the new format.
- The Position of Program Chair – Ranjay Gulati presented ideas designed to make the program chair position more effective and more attractive to potential candidates. These included using a contractor to manage the processing of Academy submissions and moving to an electronic submission process. There was consensus that these ideas are worthy of in-depth consideration. Subsequent discussion of posting accepted Academy papers on the division website raised concerns about whether it would preclude journal publication. Javier Gimeno noted that if the journals object, perhaps a system could be created where a person requests a paper via the web and it is e-mailed to them. (Note: in the fall, we found out that some editors might consider web posting to preclude publication in their journals).
- 2000 Program Update – Bert Cannella went through a handout explaining the excellent program lined up for the meeting. Of 783 people asked to serve as reviewers, 357 agreed to do so. 308 paper submissions and 37 symposia proposals were received. There are 443 separate people who are participating in this year’s program. 40% are non-U.S. scholars. Eight well-known, senior scholars were enlisted to facilitate interactive paper sessions in order to raise awareness of those sessions. Diana Day noted that program chairs are scheduling good sessions on Wednesday to encourage conference attendees to stay for the whole conference.
- Ph.D. Consortium – Anita McGahan reported that there are 50 attendees from 49 universities. 11 attendees are from overseas. This year’s consortium has a distinguished faculty panel.
- New Faculty Consortium - Ranjay Gulati noted that this year’s consortium has 40 participants. More broadly, Bert noted that we should encourage the creation of new Professional Development Workshops. PDWs are popular among participants and there seems to be plenty of available program time on Saturdays.
- Website Task Force – Rita McGrath noted that the task force has five foci:
- Policies – should we sell ads?, allow links?, etc.
- New features and functions – what should the site do? We would like to concentrate on “high impact” improvements. We also need to recognize that potentially powerful tools such as discussion boards require human resources.
- Metrics – how do we measure site success?
- Buzz – get members to use the site
- Operational – budgeting, domain names, adding sections
- Extensive discussion ensued of web issues. There was consensus that we should not at present accept advertising but that we should investigate possibly posting accepted Academy papers as well as creating discussion boards and chat rooms. Bill Bogner noted that we have ample resources to spend on the website. Diana Day suggested that we allocate $5000 for web maintenance and development. Bruce Lamont made a motion to do so. The motion passed. Rita offered a motion to register the domain names of strategyprof.org, strategyprof.com, bpshome.org, and bpshome.com. This motion also passed.
- Teaching Award Committee – Bert Cannella noted that the committee would pick the winner by January so that the winner can be listed in the program for the Academy meeting
The meeting was adjourned at 4:45 pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Dave Ketchen
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