Lia Sheer
Assistant Professor of Managerial Strategy at Coller School of Management
Schools
- Coller School of Management
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Biography
Coller School of Management
Dr. Lia Sheer is an Assistant Professor of Managerial Strategy (Senior Lecturer, Tenure-Track) at the Coller School of Management of Tel-Aviv University. Her research focuses on organizing scientific discovery for innovation inside R&D firms. More specifically, she examines the interplay between corporate science, innovation, markets for technology, knowledge spillovers, as well as their aggregated effect on firm-level outcomes. As part of her research initiatives, she compiles open-source large-scale firm-level datasets. Her research has been featured in top academic journals, including American Economic Review, and Research Policy. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration (Strategy) from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. She was the 2020-2021 recipient of Fuqua's School of Business Best Dissertation Award. She earned an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a B.A. in Economics from Tel-Aviv University. Prior to academia, she worked in the Banking Industry and was an Economic Consultant in the Ministry of Defense Budget Department, Israel.
Fields of research
Managerial strategy, corporate research, technology and innovation, organizing for innovation, patents, markets for technology.
Education
- Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business, USA 2021
Ph.D. in Business Administration (Strategy)
Dissertation: Essays on Corporate Investment in Scientific Research
Committee: A. Arora (Co-Chair), S. Belenzon (Co-Chair), W. Cohen, A. Brav - Hebrew University, The Jerusalem School of Business, Israel 2015
MBA, Magna Cum Laude, Concentrations: Strategy & Entrepreneurship; East Asian Markets
Exchange student, Yonsei University Global MBA (Seoul)
Thesis Advisor: N. Hashai - Tel Aviv University, Berglas School of Economics, Israel 2005
B.A. in Economics, Dean’s List
Grants, Fellowships, Awards, And Honors
- The Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel - Research Grant (2021-2022)
- The Jeremy Coller Foundation - Research Grant (2021-2023)
- The Fuqua School of Business Best Dissertation Award (2020-2021)
- Doctoral Fellowship, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (2015 -2020)
- Best Instructor Award, “X-Culture” MBA consulting project, Hebrew U. (2014-2015)
- Dean’s List: Hebrew University (2013); Tel-Aviv University (2003)
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