Personal profile
Research interests
My research focuses on corporate strategy, with a particular interest in mergers and acquisitions. My projects investigate factors that affect firms’ ability to appropriate value from acquisitions, including factors that change the intensity of competition in the market for corporate control and signaling effects that change the standalone valuation of potential targets. These projects build on a variety of data sources, including smartphone-geolocational data, transportation data, patent text, and news text. My research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal and has received scholarly awards, including the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Strategic Management and the Best Corporate Strategy Interest Group Proposal Award at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference.
Career
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Aug 2019 - present
Teaching Assistant, UCLA Anderson School of Management, California, USA, Sept 2014 - Jun 2019
PhD Candidate, UCLA Anderson School of Management, California, USA, Sep 2014 - Jun 2019
Research Assistant, Bruegel, Brussels, Belgium, Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Research Assistant, USI Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, Feb 2013 - Sept 2013
Business Analyst, Roland Berger, Milan, Italy, May 2012 - Nov 2012
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Business Administration and Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management, California, USA
2014 → 2019
Master of Science, Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology, Cum laude, Bocconi University, Italy
2009 → 2012
Master of Science, Economics and Business Administration: Management of Innovation and Business Development, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2009 → 2012
Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University, Italy
2006 → 2009
Exchange Program, Boston College, USA, 2008
Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, Statistics: Advanced Social Network Analysis, University of Essex, England, 2013
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Geographic isolation, trade secrecy, and innovation
Contigiani, A. & Testoni, M., Oct 2023, In: Research Policy. 52, 8, 14 p., 104825.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Face-to-face interactions and the returns to acquisitions: Evidence from smartphone geolocational data
Testoni, M., Sakakibara, M. & Chen, M. K., Dec 2022, In: Strategic Management Journal. 43, 13, p. 2669-2702Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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The market value spillovers of technological acquisitions: Evidence from patent-text analysis
Testoni, M., May 2022, In: Strategic Management Journal. 43, 5, p. 964-985Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Essays on the geographical, product, and technological dimensions of the market for corporate control
Testoni, M., 2019, Los Angeles: ProQuest Dissertation Publishing. 155 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Assessing the effects of the network of strategic alliances on M & A decisions: Some empirical evidence from the US semiconductor industry
Testoni, M., Breschi, S. & Valentini, G., Jun 2015, The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions. Risberg, A., King, D. E. & Meglio, O. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 95-113Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Projects
- 1 Finished
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R&D Organizational Choices and Innovation Performance in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Larson, C. (Principal Investigator), Da Rin, M. (Co-Investigator) & Testoni, M. (Co-Investigator)
22/09/20 → 30/06/25
Project: Research project