ABRI Lunch Seminar Paolo Aversa

Paolo Aversa is Professor of Strategy at King’s Business School, King’s College London, where he serves as Research Lead for the Department of Strategy, International Management and Entrepreneurship. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where he teaches at the Global EMBA and the Jonas Person Visiting Professor of Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses on innovation and the evolution of industries and ecosystems. His investigations concentrate on technology-intensive settings to explore radical solutions, digital transformation and business models.  He is globally known as the leading academic expert in the motorsport and Formula 1 industry. Through the years he emerged as one of the leading scholars in the use of sport data to advance management theories, and the use of historical methods in management research. His work is published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, and practice-oriented outlets such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Paolo serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Management Studies, on the editorial review board at Organization Science and Academy of Management Discoveries, for which he also served as guest editor. Within the Academy of Management he is the Director of Communications and an appointed officer of the Strategic Management (STR) Division and Elected Representative at Large of the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division. He is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education. His research was funded by various public and private institutions including EPSRC and the European Commission (Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship) and received several awards and accolades internationally for his research and teaching, among which the Knighthood of the Start of Italy (OSI) from the Presidency of Italy.