Cognition & Strategic Mental Models
How managers' cognitive representations of competitive landscapes shape strategic decisions, and what happens when those mental models diverge from reality.
Research
For two decades I've studied cognition in strategy, competitive dynamics, and how organizations navigate uncertainty. That work asks how mental models shape strategic choice, how assumptions harden into institutions, and what happens when those foundations shift.
Peer-reviewed work in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Strategy Science, and Research Policy, including the inaugural Strategy Science Best Paper Award and the Academy of Management STR Division's Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award, alongside a current program on AI in education.
Strategic Foresight & Competitive Dynamics
How firms anticipate competitive moves and navigate uncertainty, and why prediction falters when the underlying premises change.
Rationalizing Outcomes: Interdependent Learning in Competitive Markets
View publication →Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions
Evolution Cum Agency: Toward a Model of Strategic Foresight
Networks, Innovation & Corporate Strategy
How the structure of relationships between firms evolves, how those networks shape innovation, and the strategic implications of corporate actions.
Corporate Strategy and Network Change
View publication →Using Machine Learning to Revisit the Diversification–Performance Relationship
View publication →Breakthrough Recognition: Bias against Novelty and Competition for Attention
Acquisitions, Node Collapse, and Network Revolution
Education and AI
How education professionals engage with AI, and why cognitive and institutional boundaries affect its use in inclusive education. A joint research program with Roberta Besozzi (University of Fribourg).
Odyssée professionnelle : Les enseignant·e·s face à l’inclusion scolaire
AI in One Hand, Inclusive Education in the Other: Why Mainstream Teachers Who Use AI Do Not Use It for Inclusive Education
The Architecture of the Institutional Gap in Swiss Inclusive Education: What the System Does Not Count
Lost in Transition: How Inclusion Support Fragments Across Switzerland’s Vocational Education Pipeline
Ce que former, enseigner et accompagner coûte : le travail vivant des professionnel·le·s de la formation professionnelle suisse auprès des jeunes à besoins particuliers
Enseignants, formateurs en entreprise et directeurs d’école professionnelle soumis à des contraintes — Stress et burnout: comment l’IA pourrait aider
View publication →Awards & Recognition
Strategy Science Best Paper Award
Strategy Science (INFORMS), 2022
The inaugural award, chosen from every paper the journal had published up to that point.
Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award
Strategy (STR) Division, Academy of Management, 2022
The STR Division's award for work that advances research while deriving important implications for practice.
Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research
Harvard Business School, 2012
Recognizing exceptional doctoral dissertation research.
Full citation record on Google Scholar.
This work on cognition in strategy (how mental models shape competitive choice, how assumptions layer into institutions) now grounds a larger question I'm chasing. What happens to those foundations when AI shifts the premises beneath them?