Sohvi Heaton

Professional Summary

Sohvi Heaton, PhD, is an assistant professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. Prior to joining Baylor, she served as a postdoctoral scholar and later a research fellow at UC Berkeley’s Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital, and she has held visiting scholar appointments at both Berkeley and Wharton. She also taught strategy and international business at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, where she completed her doctoral training. Before entering academia, she worked in international development and economic policy, serving for five years in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Policy Department at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., where she contributed to analytical work on debt sustainability, macroeconomic policy, and economic development initiatives across low-income countries.

Education

• Oxford University, PhD in Management Studies

Courses

• BUS 4385 Strategic Management

Research Interests

• Dynamic capabilities
• Entrepreneurial universities
• Open innovation
• Profiting from innovation
• Neuroscientific methods in management

Selected Publications

• Hock‑Doepgen, M., Heaton, S., Clauss, T., & Block, J. (2025). Identifying microfoundations of dynamic managerial capabilities for business model innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 46(2), 470–501.
• Heaton, S., & Min, J. (2024). Open innovation in ecosystems: Exploring how the affiliation of an ecosystem partner impacts the benefits of collaboration in open innovation. Research Policy.
• Heaton, S., Teece, D., & Agronin, E. (2023). Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector. Strategic Management Journal, 44(2), 520–548.