NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Strategic Alliances Conference

February 28 - March 2, 2002

Josh Lerner and Raghuram G. Rajan, Organizers

Cheeca Lodge

Islamorada, FL

PROGRAM



THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2002



7:30 PM Welcome Reception and Dinner



FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2002



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University

JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER

International Joint Ventures and the Boundaries of the Firm



Discussant: RAY FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER



10:00 AM GEORGE BAKER, Harvard University and NBER

ROBERT GIBBONS, MIT and NBER

KEVIN MURPHY, University of Southern California

Relational Contracts in Strategic Alliances

Discussant: OLIVER HART, Harvard University and NBER



11:00 AM Break



11:15 AM MICHAEL RYALL, University of Rochester

RACHELLE SAMPSON, New York University

Formal and Informal Governance in Technology Alliance Contracts

Discussant: PER STROMBERG, University of Chicago



Alliance

Page Two



12:15 PM Lunch



1:15 PM Panel 1: Key Issues Facing Practitioners in Structuring and Managing Alliances



DOUGLAS BIRDSALL, Northwest Airlines

GREGORY GARDINER, Yale University Office of Cooperative Research

KEVIN OYE, Sycamore Networks



2:30 PM BEN GOMES-CASSERES, Brandeis University

JOHN HAGEDOON, University of Maastricht

ADAM JAFFE, Brandeis University and NBER

Knowledge Flows in Technology Alliances

Discussant: GORDON PHILLIPS, University of Maryland



3:30 PM Adjourn



7:00 PM Reception and Dinner



SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2002



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM Panel 2: Legal Perspectives on Strategic Alliances



BERNARD BLACK, Stanford University

MICHAEL LEVINE, Harvard University

RONALD MANN, University of Michigan



10:15 AM JOE PEEK, University of Kentucky

ERIC ROSENGREN, Federal Reserve Bank - Boston

Corporate Affiliations and the (Mis)Allocation of Credit

Discussant: JEREMY STEIN, Harvard University and NBER



11:15 AM Break



Alliance

Page Three



11:30 AM DAVID ROBINSON, Columbia University

TOBY STUART, University of Chicago

Financial Contracting in Biotech Strategic Alliances



Discussant: BENGT HOLMSTROM, MIT and NBER



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn



2/19/02