Meet the Team

Nicholas Bacon

Nicholas is a third-year PhD student at King's Business School (King's College London), in the Department of Strategy, International Management and Entrepreneurship. His research examines the feedback loop between geopolitical tensions and firm strategy, covering how tensions shape firm-level behaviour and how, in turn, such behaviour may shape geopolitical relations.

Julian Corj

Julian Corj is a PhD Student in Management at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School. His research explores social evaluations and discourse in the context of emerging technology. In his dissertation, he applies qualitative and computational methods to trace the discursive legitimation dynamics surrounding the governance and regulation of Artificial Intelligence. One of his studies examines how new ventures legitimate the emerging category of AI assurance.

Youngbeom (YB) Kim

Youngbeom (YB) Kim is a PhD student at UCL School of Management in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship group. His research examines corporate strategy in digital platform markets, with a current emphasis on how platform firms expand their scope into new products and markets.

Esme Palaganas

Esme Palaganas is a PhD student at Bayes Business School examining AI, agency, and creative work. A Chevening Scholar, her research investigates socio-technical systems, with work presented at EGOS and co-authored in Technovation. Her industry experience spans design entrepreneurship, digital transformation, and IP venture strategy, complemented by guest lecturing at Ateneo, DLSU, and UCL.

Hannah Sun

Hannah is a third-year PhD student in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. Using mixed methods, her research examines how firms adapt their strategies and communication as their competitive and institutional environments evolve, with recent work studying contexts such as geopolitical tensions and technological disruption.

Domenika Uskova

Domenika is a Cotutelle PhD candidate in Strategy at Warwick BS and Nova SBE. Using large-scale panel and archival data on cyber breaches, she examines their strategic antecedents and consequences, including executives' disclosure delays, non-breached firms' differentiation strategy within the industry, and strategic renewal of resources into innovation post-breach.

Jamie Jie Zheng

Jamie is a PhD student in Management and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School, where she studies corporate governance, female leadership, and social evaluation, particularly how gendered expectations shape the behavior and evaluation of senior executives.

Former Team Members

Elaine Siu

Elaine is a PhD student in Strategy and Organisational Theory at King's College London, where she researches the intersection of social movement and industry emergence. Her previous industry roles range from lawyer to entrepreneur and executive in the finance, alternative proteins, and non-profit sectors.

Grace Headinger

Grace is a PhD student in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, where she researches the nonmarket strategy of family enterprises, particularly how family offices and family foundations influence family firm behavior and shape their competitive environments.

Khodr Badih

Khodr is a PhD student in Management researching institutional approaches to industry and market emergence, employing mixed methods including qualitative analysis with natural language processing and machine learning techniques.

Priyal Singh

Priyal is a PhD researcher at Imperial College Business School and is a part of the Leonardo Centre on Business for Society. She studies how organizations can alter and adapt their strategy and governance to be more sustainable. She holds a Masters in Management degree from HEC Paris.

Sara Estevez Cores

Sara is a PhD researcher in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship group at the UCL School of Management, researching how hybrid work transforms the accomplishment of work in organizations and how workspace design shapes organizational and individual outcomes.

Alireza Eshraghi

Alireza is a PhD Candidate in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship department at UCL School of Management, University College London. His research centers on the intersection of competitive positioning and value-based strategy, particularly in the context of artificial intelligence (AI).

Chiara Pia D'Ambrosio

Chiara is a Ph.D. researcher at the London Business School. Her research interests include behavioral strategy, intertemporal preferences and group identification. She holds an MSc in Accounting, Financial Management and Control from Bocconi University.

Konstantin Scheuermann

Konstantin is a Ph.D. researcher at the UCL School of Management and a Visiting Researcher at the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. He studies the emergence, diffusion, and impact of novel organizational forms and practices.

Matteo Devigili, Ph.D.

Matteo is a postdoctoral researcher at INSEAD, studying the organizing of online communities. He holds a PhD in Management from Bayes Business School.

Nicole Krämer

Nicole is a PhD in Management at Bayes Business School, researching business models in the automotive industry and their influence on performance. She holds an MSc in Strategy and International Business and a BSc in Information Management Automotive.

Patrick Hallila

Patrick is a postdoctoral researcher at the Imperial College Business School. He studies internal competition, the common enemy effect, and its effects on firm performance. He holds a PhD in Management from Bayes Business School.

Yunus Isik

Yunus Isik is a Doctoral Candidate in Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is also a researcher at Oxford Future of Finance and Technology Initiative. Yunus' research focuses on social business hybrids that create social and economic value simultaneously.