Talks & Media

Invited seminars, conference presentations, media, and industry engagement.

Talks

DRUID Debate: Difference-in-Differences Estimators

DRUID25, Rotman School of Management, Toronto · June 2025

“The method of difference-in-differences estimators in strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation research needs an overhaul.”

Against: F. Castellaneta, L. Zhang · For: R. Agarwal, A. Arora

Seminars & Conference Presentations

Includes presentations by coauthors on joint papers. Click a venue to see the paper presented.

Harvard University

Darden School of Business (UVA)

University of Bath

University of Geneva

Barcelona School of Economics

Sapienza University

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

LUMSA

LUM University

AIMS Conference

Organization Science Winter Conference

SEI Conference

Crossing Bridges Conference

Panels & Invited Talks

“IA générative et Sciences de gestion”2026

IAE Nice / GREDEG-CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur

World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF)2026

with 3IA Côte d’Azur and SKEMA Business School

“Nurturing Research Excellence on the French Riviera” (panel)2025

IRMBAM

Junior Faculty PDW “Navigating Department Politics and Strategic Service” (panel)2025

SMS Annual Conference, San Francisco

Interviews

Interview on organizational learning and knowledge appropriability2024

STORM Research Center, EM Lyon Business School

The tech start-up scene in Portugal (video reportage)2016

Corriere della Sera

In the Media

Private equity investments in higher education2020

Il Sole 24 Ore

O futuro do capital privado em Portugal2016

Observador

Buyouts: when ownership by PE firms matters2015

Analyse Financière / Knowledge@HEC

Industry

Generali SME EnterPRIZE2021, 2022, 2023–2024

White papers on fostering sustainability in SMEs

JP Morgan Chase Foundation — Business Resilience2018–2020

Research project on business resilience

McKinsey & Company2010

Private equity in emerging markets

Video Lectures

Principles of Modern Management video series

Principles of Modern Management · video lecture series

11 short lectures on the core concepts of the course · watch on YouTube