Ndu (Richard) Ugwuanyi

Doctoral Student

Contact Information

Primary Email:
ndubuisi@wharton.upenn.edu
Office Phone:
215-573-8823

office Address:
2055 SH-DH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: Entrepreneurial financing and strategy, Technology & Emerging Markets Strategy

Overview

Richard’s immediate interests are in entrepreneurship, technology strategy and emerging markets.

Previously, he worked in quality control and continuous improvement in the cosmetics development and manufacturing industry, and as a technical research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada. Growing up, he had experience running a small family business and later had experience working on startups.

Richard obtained a BSc with first class honors in Pure and Industrial Chemistry, specializing in industrial chemical technology. He has an MASc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MS in Management from the Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada.

He has served as the departmental doctoral seminar chair at Wharton.

Research

Goce Andrevski, Danny Miller, Ndubuisi Ugwuanyi (2022), Situational Experience, Expertise, and the Janus-face of Forbearance, Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol.2022, No. 1 ().
Abstract: We study the drivers and performance outcomes of strategic forbearance – a purposeful decision not to respond to a rival’s competitive attack. Leveraging theories of skill development, we argue that forbearance can be strategically beneficial or not depending on competitors’ situational experience and level of expertise. We find that competitors with extensive experience in dealing with specific competitive situations are more likely to choose forbearance over response; however they benefit from forbearance only when they are skillful enough to create long-term positional advantage; otherwise, forbearance leads to inferior performance. Additionally, expert competitors with the highest skills favor response over forbearance, but benefit from both forbearance and response, whereas forbearance by those of limited expertise hurts performance. We operationalize forbearance as gambit decline in chess and test our propositions on a sample of 3,515 chess players making 236,767 decisions to accept or decline a gambit offer.

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Latest Research

Goce Andrevski, Danny Miller, Ndubuisi Ugwuanyi (2022), Situational Experience, Expertise, and the Janus-face of Forbearance, Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol.2022, No. 1 ().

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