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Rhett Andrew Brymer brymerra@miamioh.edu

(850) 251-0314 (cell) (513) 529-4320 (office)

Department of Management, Office 2017 Farmer School of Business, Miami University

800 E. High St., Oxford, OH 45056

Academic Employment

John Mee Endowed Assistant Professor of Management Oxford, OH, 2012-now Farmer School of Business, Miami University

Education

Ph.D. Management, Texas A&M University College Station, TX, August 2012 Co-Advisors: Michael Hitt and David Sirmon

M.S. Instructional Systems, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL, April 2003

M.B.A., Florida State University Tallahassee, FL, August 2001

B.A. Chemistry, Kenyon College Gambier, OH, May 1995

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles: Brymer, R., Boss, D., Uhlenbruck, K., & Bierman, L. 2018. Internationalization’s Effect on Mobility and Firms’ Employee-Based Resources. Academy of Management Perspectives, conditionally accepted. Brymer, R., Chadwick, C., Hill, A., & Molloy, J. 2018. Pipelines and Their Portfolios: A More Holistic View of Human Capital Heterogeneity via Firm-Wide Employee Sourcing. Academy of Management Perspectives, in press. Brymer, R. & Sirmon, D. 2018. Pre-Exit Bundling, Turnover of Professionals, and Firm Performance. Journal of Management Studies, 55(1): 146-173. Uhlenbruck, K., Hughes-Morgan, M., Hitt, M., Ferrier, W. & Brymer, R. 2017. Rival Reactions to Mergers and Acquisitions. Strategic Organization, 15(1): 40-66. Brymer, R. & Newman, W. 2016. An Experiential Supply Chain Management Field Study: Effectively Bridging the Gap between Classroom and Practice. Journal of Higher Education Theory & Practice, 16(6): 48-56.

Brymer, R., Molloy, J., & Gilbert, B. 2014. Human Capital Pipelines: Competitive Implications of Repeated Inter-Organizational Hiring. Journal of Management, 40(2): 353-370. Recipient of the Bright Ideas Research Award across all business disciplines

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Certo, S.T., Sirmon, D., & Brymer, R. 2010. Competition and Knowledge Creation in Management: Investigating Changes in Scholarship from 1988 to 2008. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 9(4): 591-606. 2010 AMLE Outstanding Article of the Year finalist Peer Reviewed Proceedings and Online Publications: Thornton, P., Hwang, H. S., Brymer, R., & Bierman, L. 2017. When and Where Does Workplace Diversity Pay? Institutional and Resource-Based Views. Academy of Management Proceedings. Chauradia, A. J., Mawdsley, J., & Brymer, R. 2017. Hiring in a Recession? Performance Implications of Countercyclical Human Capital Sourcing. Academy of Management Proceedings. Brymer, R., Molloy, J., and Chadwick, C. 2015. Strategic Human Capital. Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Ed. Ricky Griffin. New York: Oxford University Press. Brymer, R., Rodenberg, R., and Holcomb, T. 2015. Referee Analytics: Bias in Major College Football Officiating. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics. **Premier analytics venue, 11% acceptance rate. Paper featured in Bloomberg-Businessweek, NPR, Inside Higher Ed, Academic Minute, Yahoo!, and ESPN. **Two articles written featuring this research in Bloomberg-Businessweek and The Chicago Tribune, totaling over 160,000 unique views. Brunner, B., Brymer, R., and Wesley, C. 2014. Athletic Conference Switching and Universities’ Academic Reputations. North American Society for Sport Management Conference. Peer Reviewed Chapters: Brymer, R., Dumyahn, S., and Bentley Brymer, A. 2017. Exploring Sustainability’s Frontier: Marketization and Transparency on Public Lands. In Sustainability, Society, Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Don Siegal, Gideon Markman, Amy Guerber, & Wan-Ting Su (Eds). World Scientific: London. Brymer, R., Hitt, M. and Schijven, M. 2011. Cognition and Human Capital: The Dynamic Interrelationship between Knowledge and Behavior. In The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, Alan Burton-Jones and J.-C. Spender (Eds). Oxford Press: Oxford. Edited Publications: Brymer, R. Strategic Human Capital Interest Group’s Impact on Our Publishing Rates. 2017. Strategic Management Society’s Strategic Human Capital Interest Group Annual Newsletter.

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Brymer, R., Brymer, R., & Cain, L (Eds.). Hospitality: An Introduction (16th edition). 2016. Kendall Hunt Publishing: Dubuque, Iowa. Brymer, R. 2016. What New Hiring Methods Say about Wall Street’s Diversity Problem. Fortune. June 20. Accessed at: http://fortune.com/2016/06/20/wall-street-new-hiring-diversity/ Holloway, S., Mecker, M., & Brymer, R. 2016. Can You Imagine a World without Budweiser? We Can. The Conversation, May 4. -Article republished by Business Insider, EconoTimes, Huffington Post. **43,500+ unique views, 50xs greater than The Conversation’s average article** Brymer, R. and Newman, W. 2015 Through the Brewing Class: What Beer-Making can Teach Students about Business. The Conversation, July 23.

-Article republished by Fortune, Science 2.0, BrewStaffing.com. **One of the top-5 read articles of 2015 in the Education section of The Conversation** Brymer, R., Fisher, N., and Wiant, B. 2004. Shared Risk, Shared Reward – Profit Driving for Human Performance Technology Consulting. Performance Improvement Journal, 43(5): 27-31.

Papers Under Review or Invited Revision

Mawdsley, J., Chauradia, A.J., & Brymer, R. Hiring Expert Talent in a Recession: Targeted Labor Pool Sourcing and Firm Performance. Invited for resubmission at Strategic Management Journal. Brymer, R., Rodenberg, R. & Holcomb, T. Conference Effects in Major College Football Officiating. Invited for resubmission at Journal of Sports Analytics. Brymer, R., Sirmon, D., Xu, K., & Gao., S. Firm Resources, R&D Orchestration, and Product Innovation: Evidence of Mediation. Under review at Research Policy.

Active Projects Close to Submission Early Pipeline Hiring and Firm Performance. Targeting Administrative Science Quarterly. With coauthor Vera Rocha. When and Where Does Workplace Diversity Pay? Institutional and Resource-Based Views. Targeting Administrative Science Quarterly. With coauthors Pat Thornton, H.S. Hwang, and Len Bierman. Who Spilled the Beans: Predicting Disloyal Knowledge Sharing Behavior. Targeting Academy of Management Discoveries. With coauthors Joanna Campbell, Scott Dust, and Duane Ireland.

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Second Order Fit in Acquisitions. Targeting Academy of Management Journal. With coauthors David Sirmon and Mario Schijven. Birth and Death of Hiring Pipelines. Targeting Academy of Management Journal. With coauthors Janice Molloy and Alia Crocker.

Peer-Reviewed Presentations Rocha, V. & Brymer, R. Early Pipeline Hiring and New Venture Performance. Strategic Management Society’s Annual International Conference, Houston, October 2017. Park, H.J., Brymer, R., Bierman, L., & Briscoe, F. Internal Rivalry and Post-Merger Exits: How Bargaining Power and Relative Standing Affect Professional Mobility. Strategic Management Society’s Annual International Conference, Houston, October 2017. Rocha, V. & Brymer, R. Early Pipeline Hiring and New Venture Performance. Wharton’s People and Organizations Conference, Philadelphia, October 2017. Mawdsley, J., Chauradia, A.J., & Brymer, R. Hiring Expert Talent in a Recession: Targeted Labor Pool Sourcing and Firm Performance. Strategic Management Society’s Annual International Conference, Houston, October 2017. Thornton, P., Hwang, H.S., Brymer, R. & Bierman, L. When and Where Does Workplace Diversity Pay? Institutional and Resource-Based Views. Academy of Management Annual International Conference, Atlanta, August 2017. Mawdsley, J., Chauradia, A.J., & Brymer, R. Hiring Expert Talent in a Recession: Targeted Labor Pool Sourcing and Firm Performance. Academy of Management Annual International Conference, Atlanta, August 2017. Rocha, V. & Brymer, R. Founder's Prior Affiliations, Human Capital Sourcing, and Firm Performance. LEED Workshop Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, July, 2017. Brymer, R., Chadwick, C., Hill, A., & Molloy, J. Clarifying Human Capital Pipelines: Definition, Typology, and Theoretical Implications. Strategic Management Society’s Special Conference on Strategic Human Capital, Milan, March 2017.

Brymer, R., Dust, S. Campbell, J. & Ireland, D. A Multi-Method Examination of the Microfoundations of Competitive Imitation through External Knowledge Sharing. Strategic Management Society’s Special Conference on Strategic Human Capital, Milan, March 2017. Brymer, R. & Josefy, M. Protect This House: Using Human Capital Pipelines to Overcome the Vagaries of the Labor Market. Strategic Management Society’s Special Conference on Strategic Human Capital, Milan, March 2017.

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Rocha, V. & Brymer, R. Founder's Prior Affiliations, Human Capital Sourcing, and Firm Performance. Strategic Management Society’s Special Conference on Strategic Human Capital, Milan, March 2017. Brymer, R., Mawdsley, J., & Chaudaria, A.J. Acquiring Talent When Exposed: Unpacking the Performance Implications of Recession Hiring. Strategic Management Society’s Annual International Conference, Berlin, September 2016. Brymer, R., Mawdsley, J., & Chaudaria, A.J. Acquiring Talent When Exposed: Unpacking the Performance Implications of Recession Hiring. SMS Special Extension Conference, Munich, September 2016. Chaudaria, A.J., Mawdsley, J., & Brymer, R. Acquiring Talent When Exposed: Unpacking the Performance Implications of Recession Hiring. Wharton’s People and Organizations Conference, Philadelphia, September 2016. Brymer, R. Employer Best Practices and Analytics for Targeting Core Schools. NACE Annual Conference, Chicago, June 2016. Meckler, M., Holloway, S., & Brymer, R. If Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth, Can Too Few Fix It? Unraveling Three Dogmas of Innovation. Western Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2016. Newman, W. & Brymer, R. A SCM Field Study of the Brewing Industry: Shouldn’t Everybody Have a Course Like This? Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 2015.

Sustainability, Social Issues, and Entrepreneurship Symposium, many contributors. Academy of Management Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, August 2015. Brymer, R., Curran, S., & Goldman, M. Human Capital Pipelines – Getting a Better Grasp on Employer-University Relations. NACE Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 2015. Brymer, R., Goldman, M. & Curran, S. Human Capital Pipelines – Getting a Better Grasp on Employer-University Relations. NASPA Annual Conference, New Orleans, March, 2015. Brymer, R., Molloy, J. & Gilbert, B. Human Capital Pipelines: Employer Rationales for their

Formation and Maintenance. Plenary Session - Wharton School’s Persons & Organizations Conference, October, 2014. Brymer, R., Molloy, J. & Gilbert, B. Driving Between-Firm Heterogeneity: Rationales for Pipeline Formation and Maintenance. Strategic Management Society’s Special Conference on Microfoundations of Competitive Advantage, Copenhagen, June 2014. **Finalist for overall Best Conference Proposal Prize** Brunner, B., Brymer, R. and Wesley, C. Athletic Conference Switching and Universities’ Academic Reputations. NASSM 2014 Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May, 2014.

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Gilbert, B., Taeube, F., Migendt, M. and Brymer, R. Finding a Place at the Table: A Study on the Re-emergence of a Radical Technology. Strategic Management Society’s Special Conference on Startup and Restart Strategies, Tel Aviv, Israel, March, 2014. Armstrong, C. and Brymer, R. (co-chairs for professional development workshop). Strategic Human Capital: Challenges and New Directions, presented at the Academy of Management conference in Orlando, FL, August, 2013. Brymer, R. and Bierman, L. Limiting the Damage of Lateral Partner Movement: Exit Quantity, Geographic Focus, and Multiple Movers, presented at the Georgetown Law Shrinking Pyramid Conference in Washington, DC, April, 2013 Brymer, R., Molloy, J., and Gilbert, B. Human Capital Pipelines: Competitive Implications of Inter-Organizational Hiring, presented in a seminar to the Miami University Department of Management. Brymer, R., Campbell, J., Ireland, D., and Coombs, J. Pouring, Not Spilling: Why Individuals Purposely Share Private Firm Knowledge, presented at the Organization Science’s 19th Winter Conference in Steamboat Springs, CO, February, 2013. Brymer, R. and Eden, L. Intra-Organizational Rent Appropriation: Favorable Conditions and Human Capital Bargaining in Multinational Enterprises, presented at the Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference in Miami, November, 2011. Brymer, R., Coombs, J., Ireland, D., and Campbell, J. Pouring, Not Spilling: Why Individuals Purposely Share Firm Knowledge, presented at the Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference in Miami, November 2011. Sirmon, D., Schijven, M., Brymer, R., and Tuggle, C. Second-Order Fit in Mergers and Acquisitions: The Contingent Performance Effects of Strategic and Organizational Fit, presented at the 2011 Academy of Management conference in San Antonio, TX. Brymer, R., Kennedy, D., McComb, S., Trahms, C. Selection of Human Capital: The Performance Effects of Hiring for Intelligence vs. Experience, presented at The Value Proposition of Human Capital, a Mini Conference of the Strategic Human Capital Group of the Strategic Management Society, June 2011. Brymer, R. The Role of University Relationships in Firms’ Human Capital Accumulation, presented at the 2010 Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference in Rome. Sirmon, D., Schijven, M., Brymer, R., and Coombs, J. Second-Order Fit In Mergers And Acquisitions: The Contingent Relationship Between Resource Similarity, Complementarity and Managerial Compatibility, presented at the 2010 Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference in Rome.

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Uhlenbruck, K., Hughes, M.V., Ferrier, W.J., Hitt, M.A., and Brymer, R. The Drivers of Aggressive Competitive Responses to Acquisitions and Post-Acquisition Performance, presented at the 2010 Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Finland. **Finalist for the Best Conference Paper Award** Wesley, C. and Brymer, R. Strategic Alliances and Firm Exogenous Resource Development, presented at the 2009 Southern Management Association conference in Asheville, NC. Brymer, R. Dominant Logic Compatibility in Acquisition Performance, presented at the 2009 Strategic Management Society conference in Washington, DC. Uhlenbruck, K., Hughes, M.V., Ferrier, W.J., Hitt, M.A., and Brymer, R. Acquisitions and

Aggressive Competitive Response by Rivals, presented at the 2009 Academy of Management conference in Chicago, IL. Brymer, R. Organizational Sincerity: Unlocking Human Capital, presented at the 2008 Academy of Management conference in Anaheim, CA. Wiant, B. & Brymer, R. Aligning Cultures in Strategic IT Outsourcing Contracts, presented at the 2005 International Society for Performance Improvement conference in Vancouver, BC. Brymer, R., Fisher, N., & Wiant, B. Shared Risk, Shared Reward Business Model for Performance Consultants, presented at the 2004 International Society for Performance Improvement conference in Tampa, FL.

Invited Presentations and Guest Lectures Rocha, V. and Brymer, R. Founder's Prior Affiliations, Human Capital Sourcing, and Firm Performance. Copenhagen Business School, April 2017. Brymer, R. The Nuance of Business in Environmental Sustainability. Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Miami University, April 2017. Brymer, R. Clarifying Human Capital Pipelines. University of Memphis Department of Management’s Research Series Seminar, November, 2016. Brymer, R. A Supply Chain of Human Capital? APICS meeting, Dayton, October 2015.

Panelist for Changing the Conversation about Work-Life in the Academy to Transform

Organizations – Professional Development Workshop, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, August 2015. Brymer, R. Why Hire Consultants to Train? The Strategic, Institutional, and Transactional Motivations for Clients to Hire You, Ernst & Young’s Training Community Quarterly Meeting, June, 2015.

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Brymer, R. Hiring Pipelines – Motivations for Creation and Maintenance. Ohio State University’s Department of Management’s Research Series Seminar, April, 2015.

Teaching Experience

John Mee Endowed Assistant Professor, Miami University Oxford, OH 2012-now Instructor & Research Assistant, Texas A&M University College Station, TX 2007-2011 Adjunct Business Professor, Flagler College Tallahassee, FL, 2002-2003 Research Assistant, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 2000-2001 Science Instructor, Maclay School Tallahassee, FL 1997-1998 Science Instructor, Canterbury School of Florida St. Petersburg, FL 1995-1997

Teaching Evaluations

MGT 495 (Executive Decision Making & Strategy) Miami University, 2012-2017 Out of 4, means across 19 items: Fall 2017: 3.7: Winter 2018: 4.0

Spring 2017: 3.7, 3.4: Winter 2017: 3.8 Fall 2016: 3.4: Spring 2016: 3.7, 3.8 Fall 2015: 3.7: Spring 2015: 3.6, 3.7 Spring 2014: 3.9, 3.8: Fall 2013: 3.8, 3.8, Spring 2013: 3.7, 3.5: Fall 2012: 3.2, 3.4

MGT 474 (Human Capital Consulting) Miami University, 2016 Out of 4, means across 15 items Fall 2016: 3.3: Fall 2017: 3.5 National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching Award April, 2016 Mays School of Business Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching April, 2011

MGMT 466 (Strategic Management) Texas A&M University, 2010-2012 Out of 5, means across 17 items Summer 2012: 4.9 Fall 2011: 4.8, 4.7 Fall 2010: 4.7, 4.8 MGMT 202 (Business Communications) Flagler College, 2002-2003 Out of 5, means across 59 items

Spring 2003: 4.5 Fall 2002: 4.3

Service and Associations

Representative-at-Large, SMS’s Strategic Human Capital Interest Group 2017-2019 Editorial Board: Journal of Management 2013-2017 Editorial Board: Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies 2014-2017

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U.S. Open Beer Championship Judge 2016-2018 Alumni Teaching Scholar, Miami University 2017-2018 Board of Directors, College Baseball Hall of Fame 2017-2018 Anderson Series Speaker Selection Committee 2017 University Commencement Speaker Selection Committee (nominee was runner-up) 2016 Co-Organizer, Sustainability of Brewing Workshop 2016 Management for Non-Business Students Committee 2016 Food Institute University Multidisciplinary Curriculum Committee 2015 Team teaching lecture on Food Business 2016 Chaperone – Supply Chain of Brewing (MGT 490) J-term 2015 Bridges – Miami recruiting event 2015 Make it Miami recruiting events 2016-2017 Guest Lecture in Farmer School’s Careers Classes 2015-2017 Search Committee for Management Hire 2015 Northern Trust: Pipeline Recruiting Summary Report 2014 Strategic Planning Committee, Department of Management 2014-2015 Academic Appeals Committee, Alternate, Farmer School of Business 2014-2017 Advisory Board: Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Conference 2014-2016 Oxford Handbook Proposal Evaluator, Oxford University Press 2015 Ad hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Human Resource Management 2017 Ad hoc Reviewer, Human Resource Management 2017 Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of Business Research 2017 Ad hoc Reviewer, Human Resource Management Journal 2017 Ad hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Manpower 2015-2016 Ad hoc Reviewer, Entrepreneurship Research Journal 2016 Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics 2015

Ad hoc Reviewer, European Management Journal 2015-2017 Ad hoc Reviewer, Oxford Research Reviews 2014

Ad hoc Reviewer, Long Range Planning 2014-2016 Ad hoc Reviewer, American Journal of Business 2013 Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of Management 2009-2013 Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of Management Studies 2010 Research Mentor and Masters Committee Member, Brandon Brunner 2012-2013 Undergraduate Honors Research Mentor, Megan Frognowski 2012-2013 Undergraduate Assistantship Mentor, John Scheiman 2012 Member, Consulting Minor Feasibility Committee 2012 Reviewer, Strategic Management Society Conference 2011, 2013-2018 Doctoral Consortia, AOM BPS, SMA, and SMS Annual Meetings 2009-2011 Speaker, AOM Special Conference Consortium 2011 Instructor, Entrepreneurial Bootcamp for Disabled Veterans at Texas A&M 2010-2011 Reviewer, Academy of Management Conference 2008-2011, 2017-2018 Judge, Mays School of Business Ideas Challenge 2010-2011 Reviewer, Southern Management Association Conference 2009 Participant, SMA Best Doctoral Student Paper Committee 2009 Caucus Organizer, Academy of Management Conference 2010 Session Chair/Facilitator, Academy of Management Conference 2008-2009 Strategic Management Society 2008-2017

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Southern Management Association 2008-2011, 2014 Academy of Management 2007-2017

Corporate Experience

Summary: Organizational performance improvement consulting with experience in entrepreneurial business planning, project management, systems implementation, human performance analysis, biotechnology, and global outsourcing. Clients include Chase, Fannie Mae, Citigroup, Salesforce, MCI, Credit Suisse, and Procter & Gamble.

Senior Consultant, BearingPoint Tampa, FL, 2005-2007 Strategic Human Capital Consulting Group

Project Manager, Hewlett-Packard Boston, MA, 2003-2005 HP Service’s Human Performance Consulting Group

Strategic Business Planner, Independent Consultant Tallahassee, FL, 2001-2003 Director of Chemistry, Shelhigh, Inc. Millburn, NJ, 1998-1999