Melissa Graebner

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Management Science and Engineering, Concentration in Organization and Strategy, Stanford University, 2001
• M.B.A., Stanford University, 1998
• M.S., Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, 1996
• B.S., Industrial Engineering, Stanford University, 1993

Companies

• Director INQUIRE Initiative for Qualitative Research in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2019)
• Professor of Business Administration Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2019)
• Co-Editor Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2018)
• Associate Professor University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business (2010 — 2019)
• Associate Director Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship (2010 — 2014)
• Assistant Professor of Management University of Texas at Austin (2003 — 2009)
• Associate Consultant McKinsey & Company (2001 — 2003)

Honors and Awards

• Fellow, Strategic Management Society, 2021 to present
• Robert & Karen May Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois, Gies College of Business, 2019 to present
• President's Distinguished Faculty Recruitment Program Awardee, University of Illinois System, 2019 to present
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, 2020, 2020, 2021

Publications

Articles

• Henderson, A., & Graebner, M. (2020). Entering a Golden Age of Sustained Superiority: Entrepreneurial Creation or Discovery? Organization Science, 31 (6), 1313-1620. link >
• Dushnitsky, G., Graebner, M., & Zott, C. (2020). Entrepreneurial Responses to Crisis. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 14 (4), 537-548. link >
• Graebner, M., Lumineau, F., & Kamal, D. (2020). Unrequited: Asymmetry in Interorganizational Trust. Strategic Organization, 18 (2), 362-374.
• Graebner, M., Heimeriks, K., Huy, Q., & Vaara, E. (2017). The process of postmerger integration: A review and agenda for future research. Academy of Management Annals, Briarcliff Manor, NY, 11 (1), 1--32.
• Eisenhardt, K., Graebner, M., & Sonenshein, S. (2016). Grand challenges and inductive methods: Rigor without rigor mortis. Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Briarcliff Manor, NY.
• Graebner, M., Martin, J., & Roundy, P. (2012). Qualitative Data: Cooking Without a Recipe. Strategic Organization, 10 276-284.
• Graebner, M., Eisenhardt, K., & Roundy, P. (2010). Success and Failure in Technology Acquisitions: Lessons for Buyers and Sellers. Academy of Management Perspectives, 24 73-92.
• Westphal, J., & Graebner, M. (2010). A Matter of Appearances: How Corporate Leaders Manage the Impressions of Financial Analysts About the Conduct of Their Boards. Academy of Management Journal, 53 15-43.
• Graebner, M. (2009). Caveat Venditor: Trust Asymmetries in Acquisitions on Entrepreneurial Firms. Academy of Management Journal, 52 435-472.
• McDonald, M., Westphal, J., & Graebner, M. (2008). What Do They Know? The Effects of Outside Director Acquisition Experience on Firm Acquisition Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 29 1155-1177.
• Eisenhardt, K., & Graebner, M. (2007). Theory Building from Cases: Opportunities and Challenges. Academy of Management Journal, 50 25-32.
• Graebner, M. (2004). Momentum and Serendipity: How Acquired Leaders Create Value in the Integration of Technology Firms. Strategic Management Journal, 25 751-777.
• Graebner, M., & Eisenhardt, K. (2004). The Seller's Side of the Story: Acquisition as Courtship and Governance as Syndicate in Entrepreneurial Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly.

Book Chapters

• Han, S., Lee, S., & Graebner, M., Jeffrey Reuer, Sharon Matusik, Jessica Jones (Ed.) (2019). Family Founding Teams, Internal and External Collaboration, and New Venture Growth. Oxford Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Collaboration Oxford University Press.
• Ozcan, P., Han, S., & Graebner, M., R. Mir and S. Jain (Ed.) (2018). Single Cases: The What, Why, and How. Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies Routledge.
• Kyprianou, C., Graebner, M., & Rindova, V., K. Elsbach and R. Kramer (Ed.) (2016). Strategic Conversations: Methods for Data Collection and Analysis. Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Research Methods: Pathways to Cool Ideas and Interesting Papers Routledge.
• Greenbaum, B., & Graebner, M. (2015). Kathleen Eisenhardt. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management Palgrave.