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SAY Gui Deng

Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship (Education)
Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

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EDUCATION

2018

PhD in Business Administration
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

2011

CEMS MIM (International Management)
London School of Economics, HEC Paris

2011

M.S. in Management
NUS Business School, National University of Singapore

2011

B.Eng in Environmental Engineering
National University of Singapore

 

CURRENT APPOINTMENT(S)

Jan 2019 - Now

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Strategic responses to organizational failures
  • Data breaches from cyber-hacking
  • Institutional and social activism
  • Stakeholder management
  • Entrepreneurship in emerging economies

 

COURSES TAUGHT

  • MGMT 102: Strategy (Undergraduate)
  • MGMT 682: Strategic Management (Masters of Business Administration)

 

AWARDS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • SMU Excellent Teacher Award Nominee, 2024 (university-level)
  • Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) Best Instructor Award (2023, 2024)
  • SMU Most Promising Teacher Award Winner, 2021 (university-level)
  • SMU Innovative Teacher Award Nominee, 2020 (university-level)
  • Dean’s Teaching Honor List (2019- 2023)
  • Adjunct Coordinator

 

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED)

  • Say, Gui Deng., Vasudeva, Gurneeta. 2020. Learning from Digital Failures?: The Effectiveness of Firms’ Divestiture and Management Turnover Responses to Data Breaches. Strategy Science, 5(2): 71-145. (available here)
  • Vasudeva, Gurneeta., Nachum, Lilac., & Say, Gui Deng. 2018. A signaling theory of institutional activism: How Norway’s sovereign wealth fund affect firms’ foreign acquisitions. Academy of Management Journal, 61(4): 1583-1611. (available here)