Student profile
Saeid Bazmohammadi
Program
Specialization: Management
Thesis supervisor: Young-Chul Jeong
Thesis title: Essays on Corporate Strategic Leadership and Hedge Fund Activism
Research interests: Corporate Leadership, Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy, Social Evaluations, Corporate Social Responsibility
Academic degrees:
- Master of Business Administration (MBA, Strategy)
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Courses taught:
- COMM 401- Strategy and Competition
Publications and conference presentations
- Bazmohammadi, S., & Jeong, Y.-C. Hedge fund activism and non-target firm’s board demographic diversity. Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Istanbul, Türkiye, October 2024-scheduled. (nominated for PhD Paper Prize)
- Bazmohammadi, S., & Jeong, Y.-C. The impact of CEOs’ social evaluations on hedge fund activism. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 2024.
- Bazmohammadi, S. Unraveling CEO traits: Understanding hostile resistance in hedge fund activism. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Longueuil, Canada, June 2024.
- Bazmohammadi, S., & Jeong, Y.-C. Corporate leadership and hedge fund activism. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada, June 2023.
- Jeong, Y.-C., Lim, J., Shin, D., & Bazmohammadi, S. Burden of being atypical: (A)typicality in leader biographical profile and organizational reputation. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, August 2022.
- Sanoubar, N., & Bazmohammadi, S. 2017. Using gray relation analysis and entropy methods in ranking corporates’ social responsibility: Evidence from Iranian pharmaceutical companies. Journal of Industrial Management Studies, 15(44): 51–74.
- Faryabi, M., Rezazadeh, A., & Bazmohammadi, S. 2017. Investigating the relationship between coordination of international marketing-human resource functions with the effectiveness of marketing strategy implementation in export companies. International Journal of Business Administration, 1(2): 65–82.