Stelios Kavadias

Cambridge Judge Business School

Margaret Thatcher Professor

Trumpington Street

Cambridge, CB2 1AG

United Kingdom

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1.

A Framework for Managing Innovation

INFORMS TutORials in Operations Research
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2020
Stelios Kavadias and Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat
Cambridge Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Downloads 1,007 (39,238)
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Innovation, Innovation Process, Idea generation, Portfolio Selection, Project Execution, Project Management

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Strategic Resource Allocation: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and the Value of Strategic Buckets

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2016
Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat and Stelios Kavadias
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 774 (56,452)
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Resource Allocation Processes, Strategic Buckets, Empowerment, Resource Bundles, New Product Development Strategy, Corporate Culture

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Service Design for a Holistic Customer Experience: A Process Framework

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Ioannis Bellos and Stelios Kavadias
George Mason University - Department of Information Systems and Operations Management and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 717 (62,401)
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customer experience, customer journey, design thinking, service design, service process, service provider, touchpoints

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The Limits of Planned Obsolescence for Conspicuous Durable Goods

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Vishal Agrawal, Stelios Kavadias and L. Beril Toktay
Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Cambridge Judge Business School and Georgia Institute of Technology - Sustainability
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durable products, product obsolescence, exclusivity-seeking consumers, demand externalities

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A Theoretical Framework for Managing the NPD Portfolio: When and How to Use Strategic Buckets

Management Science, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 907-921, 2008
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2014
Raul O. Chao and Stelios Kavadias
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and Cambridge Judge Business School
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New Product Development, NPD Portfolio Strategy, Incremental and Radical Innovation, Strategic Buckets, Complexity Theory

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Product Selling Versus Pay-Per-Use Services: A Strategic Analysis of Competing Business Models

Forthcoming in Management Science
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 12 May 2021
Kostas Ladas, Stelios Kavadias and Christoph H. Loch
Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School and Judge Business School
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Pricing strategy, Business model, Pay-per-usage (PPU), Usage based pricing

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R&D Intensity and the NPD Portfolio

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 01 May 2013
Raul O. Chao and Stelios Kavadias
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and Cambridge Judge Business School
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Research and Development, New Product Development, R&D Intensity, Innovation, Portfolio Management

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Task Interdependence, Uncertainty, and Incentive Metrics for Team Projects

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 May 2010 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2016
Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat and Stelios Kavadias
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 477 (103,857)
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incentives, metrics, interdependence, project management

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How to Hit Home Runs: Portfolio Strategies and Returns in Formal and Informal Venture Capital

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Feb 2020
Andre Retterath and Stelios Kavadias
Technical University Munich and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 436 (115,417)
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Venture Capital, Business Angels, Returns, Diversification, Entrepreneurial Finance

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Rival Signals and Project Selection: Insights from the Drug Discovery Process

Markou, P., Kavadias, S., & Oraiopoulos, N. (2023). Rival signals and project selection: Insights from the drug development process. Management Science.
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 16 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2023
Panos Markou, Stelios Kavadias and Nektarios Oraiopoulos
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Cambridge Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Downloads 421 (120,265)
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project selection, new product development, spillovers, competition, R&D management, pharmaceutical industry, empirical

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Making Strategy Execution Work

Management and Business Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2021
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Sep 2021
Christoph H. Loch, Stelios Kavadias and B. C. Yang
Judge Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School and University of Taipei
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When Should Customers Control Service Delivery? Implications for Service Design

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Ioannis Bellos and Stelios Kavadias
George Mason University - Department of Information Systems and Operations Management and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 395 (129,458)
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service design, service line design, service provider, customer experience, service competition

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Revenue Driven Resource Allocation: Funding Authority, Incentives, and New Product Development Portfolio Management

Management Science, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1556-1569, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Raul O. Chao, Stelios Kavadias and Cheryl Gaimon
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Cambridge Judge Business School and Georgia Institute of Technology - Operations Management Area
Downloads 380 (135,199)
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Innovation and New Product Development, Resource Allocation Strategy, Portfolio Strategy, Organization Design, Incentives

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Decision Bias in Project Selection: Experimental Evidence from the Knapsack Problem

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2023
Tom Pape, Stelios Kavadias and Svenja C. Sommer
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Judge Business School and HEC Paris - Operations Management and Information Technology
Downloads 315 (165,598)
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project selection, behavioural operations, knapsack problem

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Innovation and New Product Development: Reflections and Insights from the Research Published in the First 20 Years of M&SOM

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 May 2019
Stelios Kavadias and Karl T. Ulrich
Cambridge Judge Business School and The Wharton School
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Innovation, New Product Development, Product Design, Service Design, Business Model Innovation

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The Pitfalls of Subsystem Integration: When Less is More

Forthcoming in Management Science
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Sanjiv Erat, Stelios Kavadias and Cheryl Gaimon
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, Cambridge Judge Business School and Georgia Institute of Technology - Operations Management Area
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How to Pivot or Persevere? Unpacking the Role of Reasoning Models in Entrepreneurial Strategy Formation

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 May 2021 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2022
Monique Boddington and Stelios Kavadias
University of Cambridge - Cambridge Judge Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School
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Pivot, Organizational Search, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Entrepreneurship

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Managing Innovation Portfolios: From Project Selection to Portfolio Design

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Apr 2022
Haijian Si, Stelios Kavadias and Christoph H. Loch
University of Cambridge - Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School and Judge Business School
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Project Portfolio, Portfolio Selection, Portfolio Management, Innovation, New Product Development

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Making Strategy Execution Work With Cascading Trees

Loch, C.H., Kavadias, S. Yang, B.C. Making Strategy Execution Work With Cascading Trees. Management and Business Review 1(1), 2021, 25-40.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 Apr 2021
Christoph H. Loch, Stelios Kavadias and B.C. Yang
Judge Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 207 (250,909)

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Strategy execution, cascading

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How Do You Search for the Best Alternative? Experimental Evidence on Search Strategies to Solve Complex Problems

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2018
Svenja C. Sommer, Elliot Bendoly and Stelios Kavadias
HEC Paris - Operations Management and Information Technology, The Ohio State University and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 186 (276,242)
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Complexity, problem solving, search, innovation

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Is Diversity (Un-)Biased? Project Selection Decisions in Executive Committees

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2019
Nektarios Oraiopoulos and Stelios Kavadias
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School
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project management, project termination decision, executive committees, strategic voting, diversity

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Behavioral Microfoundations of New Practice Adoption: the Effects of Rewards, Training and Population Dynamics

Management Science
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2023
Antoine Feylessoufi, Stelios Kavadias and Daniel Ralph
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Downloads 144 (342,995)
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Organizational adoption processes, Social comparisons culture, Population equilibria, Evolutionary game theory, Bounded rationality

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Organizational Enablers for NPD Portfolio Selection

Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2010 Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2017
Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat and Stelios Kavadias
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 108 (425,582)
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NPD Portfolio, NPD Process, Incentives in Innovation, Tolerance for Failure, Technology Management

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Optimal Sequential Investments in New Product Development with Emerging Technologies and Learning

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2011/116/TOM
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Nov 2011
Shantanu Bhattacharya and Stelios Kavadias
Independent and Cambridge Judge Business School
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New Product Development, Platform Learning, Technology Roadmap, Competition, Uncertainty

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Experimentation, Imitation, or Both? An Evolutionary Analysis of Learning Strategies for Entrepreneurial Adaptation

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2022
Kostas Ladas and Stelios Kavadias
Cambridge Judge Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School
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Evolution, Evolutionary Stable Strategies (ESS), Social Learning, Individual Learning, Experimentation, New Ventures

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Focused or Flexible Targets? How Organizational Design Influences the Definition of Success for Strategic Initiatives

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Jun 2014
Jeremy J Kovach and Stelios Kavadias
Georgia Institute of Technology and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 91 (477,752)
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Definition of Success, Strategic Initiatives, Organizational Design, Strategic Flexibility

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The Path Dependent Nature of R&D Search: Implications for (and from) Competition

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2013
Nektarios Oraiopoulos and Stelios Kavadias
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 70 (557,138)
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R&D Search, Technological Landscape, Knowledge Spillovers

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The Effect of Endorsement on Nascent Venture Success: When is the royal Seal an Asset for your Start-up?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 25 Mar 2021
Keivan Aghasi and Stelios Kavadias
University of Cambridge - Cambridge Judge Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School
Downloads 54 (633,935)

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Endorsement, Nascent Venture, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Sponsorship

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Cultural Evolution With Uncertain Provision of Learning Resources

Evolutionary Human Sciences
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2023
Kostas Ladas, Stelios Kavadias and Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat
Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Downloads 45 (685,904)

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Social Learning, Resource Uncertainty, Resource Allocation, Evolutionary Stable Strategies, Cultural Evolution

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Dynamic Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Development for Product and Process Design Teams

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2019
Gulru Ozkan-Seely, Cheryl Gaimon and Stelios Kavadias
University of Washington Bothell, Georgia Institute of Technology - Operations Management Area and Cambridge Judge Business School

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Product and process development and design; OM-Organizational Behavior interface; Technology management and process design