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Michelle Rogan

Professor of Strategy

Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP

Profile

Michelle is a leader in the field of strategic management research. Her research informs managers’ decisions regarding choices of strategic partners and their understanding of how organisational and individual networks affect performance. Michelle’s research has been published in the top management journals, and she is a sought-after keynote speaker and faculty on executive education programmes internationally.

Before joining Oxford, Michelle was a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the MSc in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management at Imperial College Business School. She also served as faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Michelle was a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University.

Michelle holds a PhD in Strategy and International Management from London Business School and a BA in Psychology from Yale. She serves as a senior editor at Organisation Science and was formerly an Associate Editor at Management Science. She is on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Strategy Science.

Expertise:

  • innovation
  • entrepreneurship
  • social capital
  • networks

Read Michelle's CV or visit her Google Scholar page.

Research

Michelle studies how social networks affect entrepreneurship and innovation. Her research has provided insights into how acquisitions of valuable relationships affect firm performance, how competitive overlap in networks affects strategic partner choice, and the importance of 'network ownership' for individual innovation performance.

She is exploring networking behaviours of female entrepreneurs and the strategic human capital benefits and liabilities of corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects. Her recent research projects examine employees’ judgments of the firm’s CSR authenticity and implications of AI for the value of social capital in decision making.

She has published in top journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organisation Science and Strategic Management Journal.

Publications

Competitive overlap as a signal in expert partner choice: evidence from patent law firm selection

  • Journal article
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Geoff Borchhardt,
  • Balazs Kovacs,
  • Michelle Rogan

Up to no good? Gender, social impact work, and employee promotions

  • Journal article
  • Administrative Science Quarterly
  • Christiane Bode,
  • Michelle Rogan,
  • Jasjit Singh

Capability Reputation, Character Reputation, and Exchange Partners’ Reactions to Adverse Events

  • Journal article
  • Academy of Management Journal
  • Brian Park,
  • Michelle Rogan

Coordinating Complex Work: Knowledge Networks, Partner Departures, and Client Relationship Performance in a Law Firm

  • Journal article
  • Management Science
  • Forrest Briscoe,
  • Michelle Rogan

Too Close for Comfort? The Effect of Embeddedness and Competitive Overlap on Client Relationship Retention Following an Acquisition

  • Journal article
  • Organization Science
  • Michelle Rogan
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Engagement

Michelle has directed and taught executive programmes globally, including in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. At INSEAD, she was the co-director of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship programme which provided business education to founders of impact ventures.

She also served as the director of a leadership development programme for high potential women in Saudi Arabia. Michelle has delivered keynote addresses to audiences internationally and is regularly invited to serve on expert panels in academic conferences.

Teaching

Michelle teaches strategy, innovation management, corporate entrepreneurship and networks in graduate, undergraduate and executive education. She has written two award winning cases - The transformation of BP, the overall winner in the Case Centre’s annual case competition and Accenture development partnerships, winner of the EFMD case writing competition.

She has been recognised for her teaching, receiving the Teaching All-Star award at the University of North Carolina, best online teaching at Imperial College Business School and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Imperial College London.

Current programmes include:

  • Executive MBA
  • DPhil in Management
  • High Performance Leadership Programme
  • Oxford Executive Diploma in Strategy and Innovation
  • Oxford Executive Diploma in Organisational Leadership