1997 to 2002 YALE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Business Administration.
Research and case writing activities focused on corporate strategy
and global competition.
Newly developed “International Strategy and Competition”
course was highest rated out of all 102 MBA courses in 1999. Also
introduced a new general management course, and jointly developed
a novel integrative course to conclude first year MBA required curriculum.
Chosen “Class Speaker” by Class of 1999. Second highest
rated teacher among all faculty in 1998.
Chairman and participant in Harvard Business School Executive Programs
and in-house management education programs for multinational companies.
1986 - 1997 HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
Associate Professor of Business Administration within Competition
and Strategy Faculty.
Research and case writing on corporate strategy and industry analysis.
Rated top teacher among all strategy faculty in 1996 by both MBAs
and executives.
Jointly developed second year MBA elective course on “Corporate
Strategy,” taken by over 250 students. Course head for capstone
MBA “Competition and Strategy” course for two years.
Jointly developed Executive Education course “Competition and
Strategy,” and Leadership Workshop for CEOs “Creating
Corporate Advantage.” Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand “International
Business Programme” (joint with INSEAD).
Faculty advisor to Management Consulting Club.
1985-1986 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF BUSINESS
Assistant Professor of Business Policy, Management of Organization
Faculty. Teaching and joint development responsibility for core
Business Policy course taught to final semester MBA students.
Research in corporate strategy and industrial policy.
1978-1982 THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP LONDON
Management consultant specializing in corporate strategy. Casework
involved management of other professional staff according to seniority,
and continuous interaction with the client at all levels of management
to ensure conclusions and recommendations were supported and implemented.
Assignments ranged from clients in banking and insurance to the
printing and textile industries, and included a six month period
in South Africa.
Summer 1977 RICHARD J. BARBER ASSOCIATES WASHINGTON,
D.C.
Staff analyst for economic consulting firm. Member of team preparing
testimony before ICC on coal unit-train rates. Also assisted in
anti-trust cases.
1982-1986 HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Awarded Ph.D. degree in Business Economics in June 1986.
Dean's Doctoral Fellow of Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Thesis on "The Value Added Structure and Competition Within
Industries" and course work were in Industrial Organization
and Applied Microeconomics, and Business Policy and Corporate Strategy.
1976-1978 HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
Awarded Master of Business Administration degree in June 1978 with
High Distinction.
Baker Scholar of the Harvard Business School.
Degree was in General Management with second year orientation towards
corporate strategy.
1973-1976 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, DOWNING COLLEGE
Awarded Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with Double First.
Master of Arts in 1979.
Wrenbury Scholar of Cambridge University (top academic economist
of the class).
Scholar of Downing College. Platt Prize for Outstanding Academic
Achievement. College prize winner for academic work three times.
Degree was in economic theory with emphasis on applied economics.
Special papers taken were in the theory of the firm, quantitative
economics, monetary theory, and industrial sociology. Also studied
economic history and politics.
1966-1972 KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM
Foundation Scholar of the School.
“A” Levels in Math, Physics, Chemistry (3A’s).
Elected to “Linking Research & Practice Committee”
for BPS Division, Academy of Management, 2001-03, previously on
“Teaching Committee” for 1995-1997.
Advisory Board member for McGraw Hill “Strategic Management:
Annual Editions”.
Coopers and Lybrand: Igor Ansoff Award Committee Member in 1997.
Member of New Faculty Consortium at Academy of Management in 1996.
Frequent presenter, discussant and session chair at Academy of Management
and Strategic Management Society meetings, and at Higher Education
Conferences.
Referee for Strategic Management Journal, California Management
Review, Long Range Planning, Academy of Management Review, Academy
of Management Journal, Organisation Science, Sloan Management Review,
Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Economics
and Management Strategy, Journal of International Business Studies,
Business and The Contemporary World, Columbia Journal of World Business,
Oxford University Press, Harvard Business School Press.
Keynote speaker at higher education conferences NACUBO, UCEA, UNICON,
and the Forum for Higher Education.
Recent Consultant to Alfa, Merck & Co., Fortune Brands, Pittston
Companies, Union Pacific, Deutsche Bank, Price Waterhouse Coopers,
Fidelity Investments, Fortis, Inc., Ocean Spray, Timken, PICIS,
SEDCO, University of North Carolina, Mercy College, Northwestern
University, Weber State.
Recent Executive Teaching at Philip Morris, Merck & Co., GE,
Unilever, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Saudi Leadership Development Consortium,
Brookings Institute, Litton Industries, Edward Jones, Harvard Business
School.
Advisory Board Member of WebCT, MLX.com, Brand Leadership, and formerly
of Ocean Spray.
Founding Partner of E-Edge.
Books:
With M. Goold, D. Young et al. Corporate Headquarters: An International
Analysis of their Roles and Staffing”, London: Financial Times\Prentice
Hall 2000.
With C. Montgomery, Corporate Strategy: A Resource-Based Approach.
Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin 1998. (second edition, text only). Also available
in Chinese and Italian versions.
With C. Montgomery, Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope
of the Firm. Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin 1997, and accompanying Instructors
Manual, Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin 1998.
Articles:
“Storming the Ivory Tower” under review at Sloan Management
Review.
“When Industries Change: The Future of Higher Education”
Continuing Higher Education Review
vol. 65, Fall 2001, pp 7-24.
With T. Noda, “The Evolution of Intra-Industry Firm Heterogeneity:
Insights from A Process Study,” Academy of Management Journal,
August 2001, pp 897-925.
With C. Montgomery, “Creating Corporate Advantage,” Harvard
Business Review, May/June, 1998, pp. 70-83. Reprinted in Harvard
Business Review on Corporate Strategy, Boston: Harvard Business
School Press, 1999, pp. 1-32.
“Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Creativity,” in Comportamento
Organizacional e Gestao April 1998, pp. 61-80. Reprinted in Cunha
M.P. and Marques C.A. (eds) Readings in Organisation Science, Lisbon:
ISPA, 1999, pp. 121-142.
With C. Montgomery, “Competing on Resources: Strategy in the
Nineties,” Harvard Business Review, vol. 73, #4, 1995, pp.
118-128. A “Best Selling” Harvard Business Review Reprint.
Reprinted in Brown, J.S. Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation,
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997, pp. 157-175, and in
Harvard Business Review on Corporate Strategy, Boston: Harvard Business
School Press, 1999, pp. 33-62.
“How Valuable are Organisational Capabilities?” Strategic
Management Journal, vol. 15, 1994, pp. 143-152.
“The Strategic Management of Uncertainty,” European Management
Journal, vol. 10, #2, June 1992, pp 125-135. Reprinted in International
Library of Management, Dartmouth Publishing Co, 1994 pp .
“A Resource Based Analysis of Global Competition: The Case
of the Bearings Industry,” Strategic Management Journal, vol.
12, June 1991, pp 49-68.
Book Chapters:
“New Business Models for Higher Education” forthcoming
in S. Brint (ed) The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing
American University, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Revised
version in Devlin M., Larson R., and Meyerson J. (eds.) The Internet
and the University, Boulder CO: Educause, 2001 pp 97-115.
“When Industries Change Revisited: New Scenarios for Higher
Education” in Meyerson J. and Devlin M. (eds.) Forum Futures,
San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2001, 103-126.
“When Industries Change: Scenarios for Higher Education”
in Meyerson J. and Devlin M. (ed), Exploring the Future of Higher
Education, New York: Forum Publishing, 1999, pp. 47-70.
With P. Ghemawat “Mapping the Business Landscape,” in
P. Ghemawat Strategy and the Business Landscape, Readings: Addison-Wesley
Longman, 1999, pp. 19-48 and in P. Ghemawat Strategy and the Business
Landscape: Core Concepts, Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall,
2001, pp. 19-48. Revised and reprinted in Fahey L. and Randall
R.M. (eds) The Portable MBA in Strategy, New York: Wiley, 2001,
pp. 171-188.
With P. Bane and S. Bradley, “The Converging Worlds of Telecommunications,
Computing and Entertainment,” in S. P. Bradley and R.L. Nolan
(eds.) Sense and Respond, Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
1998, p. 31-62.
With P. Bane and S. Bradley, “Winners and Losers: Industry
Structure in the Converging World of Telecommunications, Computing
and Television,” in Yoffie, D.B. (ed.), Competing in the
Age of Digital Convergence, Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
1997, pp. 159-200.
“Organisational Capability as a Source of Profit,” in
Moingeon, B., and Edmondson, A. (eds.), Organisational Learning
and Competitive Advantage, London: Sage, 1996, pp. 139-163.
“Related Corporate Portfolios,” in Goold, M.C. and Luchs,
K.S. (eds.) Managing the Multibusiness Company, London: Routledge,
1996, pp. 122-142.
With P. Ghemawat, “Industry Analysis,” in Fahey, L,
and Randall, R.M. (eds.), The Portable MBA in Strategy, New York:
Wiley and Sons, 1994, pp. 171-194.
“Bearings: The Visible Hand of Global Firms,” in Yoffie,
D.B. (ed.) Beyond Free Trade, Boston: Harvard Business School
Press, 1993, pp. 251-310.
“The Machine Tool Industry and Industrial Policy 1955-82,”
in A.M. Spence and H. Hazard (eds.). International Competitiveness,
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1988, pp. 75-114.
Other Publications:
“Corporate Strategy in Multibusiness Firms,” Long Range
Planning, vol. 29 #3, 1996, pp. 416-
418.
“The Pitfalls of Parenting Mature Companies,” case comment,
Harvard Business Review, vol. 74 #5, 1996, pp. 28-32.
“Internal Markets,” book review in Manageris, June 1994,
#17, pp. 10.
“Japan's Software Factories,” book review in Science,
October 1991, vol. 254, pp. 589-590.
“The Management Consulting Industry,” various revisions,
Harvard Business School Career Guide: Management Consulting, Boston:
MA, Harvard Business School Press, editions 1988 through 2001.
“How to Choose a Consulting Firm,” in Harvard Business
School Career Guide: Management Consulting, Boston: MA, Harvard
Business School Press, 1988, 1987.
Work in Progress:
“International Strategy and Competition” Trade and Textbook
to accompany Course.
With Goold M. and Young D., “The Structure, Size, and Performance
of the Corporate Centre”, and
“International Differences in the Size, Roles, and Effectiveness
of Corporate Headquarters”
both intended for Strategic Management Journal, and presented
at Strategic Management
Society, 1999.
With Rukstad M. “Capitalise on the Education Revolution”
intended for Harvard Business Review
“The Paradox of Scope: A Challenge for University Governance”
invited paper for presentation at
Ford Foundation Conference on Higher Education, Santa Fe AZ, June
2002.
Case Studies and Teaching Notes:
[Over 300,000 in print, * indicates Harvard Business School Publishing
“Best Seller”]
“Thomson Corporation” HBS Case # 702-414
“The Walt Disney Company: The Entertainment King” HBS
Case # 701-035
“Merck and Co.: Breaking Away” HBS Case # 901-050
“De Remate: Building a Latin American Auction Site”
HBS Case # 701-123 with Teaching Note
“U-Next.com: Business Education and eLearning” HBS Case
# 701-014
“Merck and Co: Vioxx vs Celebrex” HBS Case #800-159
“Merck in Poland,” HBS Case # 899-142
“Cooper Industries Corporate Strategy 1991-1998,” HBS
Case #
“The Pharma Giants: Ready for the 21st Century,” HBS
Case #698-070 with Teaching Note
“Merck and Co., Inc.: Zocor vs. Lipitor,” HBS Case #598-114
“Intel Corporation: 1968-1997,” HBS Case # 797-137.
Reprinted in Ghemawat P., Strategy and the Business Landscape,
Reading MA: Addison Wesley 1999.
“The Walt Disney Company (D),” HBS Case #796-149
“Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Inc.: A Period
of Transition,” HBS Case #796-109.
“Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy (B),” HBS
Case #795-154.
“Kraft General Foods (B),” HBS Case #795-153.
“The Walt Disney Company (C): A Tumultuous Year,” HBS
#395-109.
“Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at Ciba-Geigy,”
HBS #795-041, (with Teaching Note #795-140). Reprinted in Collis,
D. and Montgomery C., Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope
of the Firm, Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
“Portfolio Planning at Ciba-Geigy: The Newport Investment
Proposal,” HBS #795-040, (with
Teaching Note #795-107). Reprinted in Collis, D. and Montgomery
C., Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm, Burr
Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
“The Walt Disney Company (B): Sustaining Growth,” HBS
#794-129, (with Teaching Note #795-151). Reprinted in Collis,
D. and Montgomery C., Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope
of the Firm,” Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
“EnClean: Malcolm Waddell’s Story,” HBS #794-115,
(with Teaching Note #795-071 and video #795-520). Reprinted in
Collis, D. and Montgomery C., Corporate Strategy: Resources and
the Scope of the Firm,” Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
*“Asahi Glass Company: Diversification Strategy,” HBS
#794-113 (with Teaching Note #795-071). Reprinted in Collis, D.
and Montgomery C., Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope
of the Firm,” Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
“Newell Company: Acquisition Strategy,” HBS #794-066,
(with Teaching Note #795-132). Reprinted in Collis, D. and Montgomery
C., Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm,”
Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
*“Sharp Corporation: Technology Strategy,” HBS #793-064,
(with Teaching Note #794-025), reprinted in Yoffie, D.B.(ed.),
Strategic Management in Information Technology, Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994, and in Neupert, K.E. and J.N. Fry (eds.),
Cases for Contemporary Strategy Analysis, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell,
1995, and in Collis, D. and Montgomery C., Corporate Strategy:
Resources and the Scope of the Firm,” Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin,
1998.
“Cabot Corporation’s Liquefied Natural Gas Business,”
HBS #793-062 (with Teaching Note #795-161 and video # 795-521).
“Saatchi & Saatchi Company PLC: Corporate Strategy,”
HBS #792-056 (with Teaching Note #795-094).
“Birds Eye and the U.K. Frozen Food Industry (A) & (B),”
HBS #792-074 and 078 (with Teaching Note #795-109). Reprinted
in Collis, D. and Montgomery C., Corporate Strategy: Resources
and the Scope of the Firm,” Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
“Time Inc. and New Magazine Development (A) & (B),”
HBS #792-042, and 043, (with Teaching Note #795-108).
“Beatrice Companies- 1985,” HBS #391-191 (with Teaching
Note #391-282), reprinted in Padberg, D.I., Ritson C., and Albisu
L.M., Agro-Food Marketing, CAB International, December 1996, and
in Collis, D. and Montgomery C., Corporate Strategy: Resources
and the Scope of the Firm,” Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
“General Motors’ Automotive Components Group,”
HBS #391-126 (with Teaching Note #391-280).
*“Kraft General Foods: The Merger,” HBS #391-139 (with
Teaching Note #391-279).
“Nestlé in Chocolate in 1990,” HBS #391-203 (with
Teaching Note #391-277).
*“Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry (A), (B), (C), and (D),”
HBS #391-189, 195, 196, 197, (with Teaching Note #391-276). Reprinted
in Collis, D. and Montgomery C., Corporate Strategy: Resources
and the Scope of the Firm,” Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
*“IBP and the US Meat Industry,” HBS #391-006 (with
Teaching Note #391-268).
*“Cooper Industries’ Corporate Strategy,” HBS #391-095
(with Teaching Note #391-281 and
video #793-504). Reprinted in Collis, D. and Montgomery C., Corporate
Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm,” Burr Ridge,
Ill: Irwin, 1998.
“General Electric--Consumer Electronics Group,” HBS
#389-048 (with Teaching Note #391-275). Reprinted in Yoffie, D.B.,
International Trade and Competition, New York: McGraw Hill, 1990,
and Bartlett C.B. and Ghoshal S., Transnational Management, Homewood,
IL: Irwin 1992.
“The Major Home Appliance Industry in 1988,” HBS #389-056.
“Maytag in 1984,” HBS #389-005 (with Teaching Note #391-272).
“Walt Disney Company (A): Corporate Strategy,” HBS #388-147
(with Teaching Note #795-152). Reprinted in Collis, D. and Montgomery
C., Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm,”
Burr Ridge, Ill: Irwin, 1998.
“Kingsbury Machine Tool Corporation,” HBS #388-110 (with
Teaching Note).
“WPP Group PLC,” HBS #388-126.
“Saatchi & Saatchi Company PLC,” HBS #387-170 (with
Teaching Note).
“The Machine Tool Industry and Industrial Policy 1955-82,”
HBS #387-145.
“Note on Factory Automation,” HBS #387-084.
“Machine Tool Industry (A) and (B),” HBS #387-087 and
088 (with Teaching Note).
“Omron Tateisi Electronics Company,” HBS #387-077 (with
Teaching Note #391-274).
“Tatung Company (B),” HBS #385-174 (with Teaching Note).
“The Chain Saw Industry in 1978,” HBS #379-176 (with
Teaching Note).
“The Chain Saw Industry in 1974,” HBS #379-157. Reprinted
in Porter, M.E., Cases in Corporate Strategy, New York: Free Press
1983.
Conceptual Notes for “Corporate Strategy”:
“The Scope of the Corporation,” HBS #795-139.
“Managing the Multibusiness Corporation,” HBS #391-286.
“Corporate Advantage: Identifying, Building and Leveraging
Resources,” HBS #391-285.
“Corporate Strategy: A Conceptual Framework,” HBS #391-284.
Teaching Notes prepared for other cases used in “International
Strategy and Competition” and “Corporate Strategy”
courses:
“The Catalan Leather Industry” Teaching Note for HBS
Case # 795-105
“Schweizerische Maschinenfabrik Zug” Teaching Note for
HBS Case # 795-026
“STAR TV (A)“ Teaching Note for HBS Case # 394-212
“ABB’s Relays Business” Teaching Note for HBS Case
# 394-016
“The Major Home Appliance Industry: A Global Perspective”
Teaching Note for HBS Case # 700- 048
“Unilever Butter Beater” Teaching Note for HBS Case
# 698-017
“Tricon Restaurants International” Teaching Note for
HBS Case # 700-036
“Antmobel (A) and (B)” Teaching Note for HBS Case #
795-100 and 101
“The Globalisation of CEMEX” Teaching Note for HBS Case
# 701-017, and ”CEMEX, SA de CV: Global Competition in a
Local Business” Stanford University Case, 1999
“Bain and Company: International Expansion” Teaching
Note for HBS Case # 395-102
“Otis Elevator Company (A): China Strategy” Teaching
Note for HBS Case # 396-098
“Kodak Business Imaging System” Teaching Note for HBS
Case # 693-043
“Black Magic and the America’s Cup: The Victory”
Teaching Note for HBS Case # 796-187
“Caterpillar Tractor Co.” and “Komatsu Limited”
Teaching Note for HBS Cases # 385-276 and 385-277
“Becton Dickinson: Worldwide Blood Collection Team”
Teaching Note for HBS Case # 394-072
“BRL Hardy” Teaching Note for HBS Case # 300-018
“Textron Inc.” HBS Teaching Note #395-170.
“The U.S. Lodging Industry in 1985,” HBS Teaching Note
#795-145.
“VisiCorp 1978-1984,” HBS Teaching Note #795-141.
“PepsiCo’s Restaurants,” HBS Teaching Note #795-134
(with video #795-522).
“ICI and Hanson (A) & (B),” HBS Teaching Note #795-122.
“Corning Glass Works International (A), (B1), and (B2),”
HBS Teaching Note #391-278.
“Note on the World Aluminum Industry in 1983,” HBS Teaching
Note #391-273.
“Marks and Spencer, Ltd. (A), (B), and (C),” HBS Teaching
Note #391-271.
“ISS - International Service Systems A/S,” HBS Teaching
Note #391-270.
“Berkshire Partners,” HBS Teaching Note #391-268.
