Hakan Ener

Areas of Interest

• Organizational Learning and Capabilities
  
  • Top Management Teams
    
  • Developing Products in New Markets

Hakan Ener is assistant professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship. He does research on top management teams in entrepreneurial firms. One of his main interests is the "management experience pitfall," a theme emerging from his dissertation, which showed that entrepreneurial firms led by the most experienced top executives in their industry do not typically achieve the highest performance. This work has won a worldwide doctoral research award from the Center for Creative Leadership in the US, and was nominated for the Strategic Management Society''s Best Implications for Practice award.

He holds a Ph.D. in management (with a specialization in strategy), which he completed at INSEAD''s two campuses in France and Singapore.

Book, Chapter * Ener, H., & Hoang, H. When Do Biotechnology Ventures Pursue International R&D Alliances?. Academic Entrepreneurship: Translating Discovery to the Marketplace. Edward Elgar (2016) Conference Proceeding * Ener, H. Explaining Failed versus Accomplished Product Market Entry. Academy of Management (2017) Journal Article * Ener, H. Do Prior Experiences of Top Executives Enable or Hinder Product Market Entry?. Journal Of Management Studies 56.7 (2019): 1345-1376. * Ener, H. The Unfulfilled Promise of Biotechnology Firms: A Top Management Team-based Explanation. Industrial And Corporate Change 26.5 (2017): 887-906. * Hoang, H., & Ener, H. Unpacking Experience Effects in Developing Novel Products for New Markets. Strategic Organization 13.4 (2015): 261-283. * Alpay, G., Bodur, M., Ener, H., & Talug, C. Comparing board-level governance at MNEs and local firms: Lessons from Turkey. Journal Of International Management 11.1 (2005): 67-86. Written Case with Instructional Material * Ener, H. A Lean Start-up at Intuit Inc.: What Hypothesis to Test?. Sage Business Cases (2021) * Ener, H. BabySupplies: Entrepreneur-Investor Conflict, parts (A) (B) and (C). Case Study distributed by Harvard Business School Publishing. Originally published by IESE Business School Publishing (2016) * Ener, H. Transformation at Aircraft Corporation Division. Case Study distributed by Harvard Business School Publishing. Originally published by IESE Business School Publishing (2016) Presentations * MBA Teaching: Walk-in Strategy Teaching Clinic. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Academy of Management. (2018) * Explaining failed versus accomplished product market entry. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. (2017)