Contributing faculty

Marcus Alexander

• Adjunct Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management. 
• Formerly a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group and a founding director and co-owner of a strategy consulting boutique. 
• Published articles about strategy in Harvard Business Review, Business Strategy Review and Long Range Planning and contributed to several books. 
• Graduated with the highest grades in his MBA class at Harvard Business School.

Tim Ambler

• Senior Fellow.

Patrick Barwise

• Professor of Management and Marketing, Chair of Marketing and Chair, Centre for Marketing.

Julian Birkinshaw

• Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management.
• Research interests include corporate entrepreneurship and corporate strategy.   

Shelley Brickson

• Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. 
• Teaches on the MBA programme. 
• Formerly a Doctoral Fellow at the Houser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
• Research interests include organisational identity and its influence on organisations´ internal and external relations, diversity management, nonprofit organisations and organisational theory.

Jeremy Cherfas

• Biologist and award winning science writer. 
• Currently holds the post of Public Awareness Officer for IPGRI - the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, based in Rome.
• Interests range from molecular biology to conservation and the rational exploitation of natural resources, including agriculture. 
• The author of several books including: Man Made Life: An Overview of the Science, Technology and Commerce of Genetic Engineering (Random House, 1983) and The First Chimpanzee (Penguin Press Science, 2001).

Laura Cousins

• Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School.
• Affiliated lecturer of Cambridge University working at the Judge Institute of Management Studies and also works with the École Nationale des Ponts et Chausées in Paris.
• Gained valuable experience in line marketing at RHM foods.
• Currently working with HSBC, and Heineken BV.
• Research interests include: virtual working and corporate leadership and accountability.

Pascal Courty

• Assistant Professor of Economics at London Business School. 
• Teaches core managerial economics on the MBA and executive MBA programmes. 
• Awarded his PhD from the University of Chicago and has taught at University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and the Hong Kong School of Business. 
• Research focuses on contract theory with applications to the design of incentives in organisations and his work has been published in leading economic journals.

Patrick Dixon

• Fellow, Centre for Management Development and Chairman of Global Change Ltd. 

Shantanu Dutta

• Professor of Marketing, London Business School. 

Saul Estrin

• Professor of Economics at London Business School.   
• Research Director of the School's Centre for New and Emerging Markets.
• Main areas of research concern globalisation, deregulation and privatisation, and the impact on company strategies and performance. 
• A regular speaker at conferences on Global Businesses and Emerging Markets.

Peter Feroze and The Creative Knowledge Company

• Provide art workshops for schools, colleges and organisations in association with The Royal Academy of Arts.
• Using drawing as an elemental tool, business workshops develop a greater awareness of key creative processes and show how artists' techniques can be adapted to enrich the workplace and foster the climate for innovation.
• Their clients include Accenture, The Design Council, Quest International and The Association of MBAs.

Julian Franks

• Corporation of London Professor of Finance. 

Keith Freeman

• Teaching Fellow at London Business School where he lectures on the Masters in Finance degree programme.
• Director of several custom programmes for Executive Education. 
• Has his own financial consultancy through which he undertakes company investigations, assists in corporate planning and advises companies that are in difficulty.

Yvonne Gilan

• Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School. 
• Pioneer of the use of art, music and drama in management development. 
• Recognises the need for business people to improve their presentation skills, particularly with regard to the power and flexibility of the human voice. 
• Established "Voicecraft", a training programme for business communicators, politicians and academics. 
• Began her career in the theatre as an actress.

Rob Goffee

• Deputy Dean of Executive Education and Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School.
• Pioneered a number of Executive Education programmes including the highly successful Accelerated Development Programme and custom programmes for Heineken and Roche. 
• Research focuses on the social architecture of the modern corporation, how organisational integration is achieved and the contribution of leadership to that process. 
• Publications include "Why should anyone be led by you?" (co-authored with Gareth Jones) which won the McKinsey Award in 2000 for the best business article in the Harvard Business Review; The Character of a Corporation (HarperCollins 1998) in collaboration with Gareth Jones.

Wolfgang Grulke

• Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School, and Chairman FutureWorld, the global business and technology think tank
• Worked internationally with IBM for more than 25 years and was awarded the prestigious IBM Outstanding Innovation Award.
• Founder and CEO of the Business Futures Group and started FutureWorld as an informal business network in 1987.
• His article "In Search of Simplicity" won the NACCA award for the best business article of the year and "From Value Chain to Marketspace" was awarded the AFSM International Writing Award for Professional Writers and Consultants in Boston.
• Recent books include: Ten Lessons from the Future (Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2000) and Lessons in Radical Innovation: Out-of-the-Box Straight to the Bottom Line (Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2002).

Gary Hamel

• Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School, Chairman of Strategos, a company dedicated to helping companies build high performance innovation systems, and Director of Woodside Institute, a non-profit research organisation dedicated to the cause of increasing organisational resilience around the world. 
• A world-renowned management thought-leader, Gary has been described by Fortune magazine as "the leading strategy expert in business today". 
• As the author of such ground-breaking concepts as "strategic intent", "core competence" and "industry revolution", he has helped dozens of the world's leading companies reinvent their strategies and management practices. 
• Gary´s landmark book Competing for the Future (Harvard Business Press, 1994), was a Business Week Management Book of the Year and is the best-selling book ever on business strategy. In his latest book, Leading the Revolution (Harvard Business Press, 2000), he provides a detailed blueprint for building resilient organisations where innovation is an everywhere, all-the-time capability. 

Dominic Houlder

• Adjunct Associate Professor in Strategic and International Management. 

John Hunt

• Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour. 

Michael Jacobides

• Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School.   
• Senior Fellow at the Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School,  University of Pennsylvania.   
• Research focuses on corporate scope, changing business models, industry evolution and profit migration, the impact of information and IT on strategy together with the value chain and profitability analysis. 
• Awarded Teacher of the Year, Wharton School, 2000. 
• Involved in executive programmes on strategic management for companies such as IBM, PwC, HSBC, and the Credit Union Executives Association. 
• Designs executive development programmes for companies such as Pirelli SpA and Zurich Financial Services.

Michael Jarrett

• Associate of London Business School, a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management and a Staff Associate of The Tavistock Group Relations Conference. 
• An international organisation development consultant whose clients have included: Glaxo Welcome, CGNU, WPP and McKinsey & Co. 
• Formerly a Vice President and the MD of the London Office of Personnel Decisions International, a global HR consultancy. 
• Research interests include: top teams, strategic organisational learning and the difficulties of change management.

Todd Jick

• Visiting Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour.   
• A recognised expert in change management and a leading-edge thinker on new organisational models and processes. 

Gareth Jones

• A leader in the field of organisational management. 
• Co-author of several influential texts with Rob Goffee on organisational culture. 

Rod McIntosh

• Director of the Florence Trust Studios, a charitable arts organisation that supports and enables some of the country's leading emerging artists to take the next step of their career. 
• An accredited facilitator who has been running arts based training for over nine years with business clients such as AC Nielson, Andersen Consulting, BP, Lever Faberge and within the arts industry with Space Studios London. 
• A mentor at the University of Hertfordshire. 
• Trained and works as a sculptor.

Costas Markides

• Robert P Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership at London Business School. 
• Fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 
• Teaches on custom programmes for Credit Union and Nestlé.   
• Publications include "Strategic Innovation" and "Strategic Innovation in Established Companies" in the Sloan Management Review in 1997 and 1998 and All the Right Moves (Harvard Business School Press, 2000). His latest book, Strategic Management for the Next Economy was published by Jossey-Bass in 2001.

Patrick Moore

• Co-founder and Managing Director of Moore Vyas Associates, a consultancy that specialises in the use of music as a metaphor for illuminating and exploring business issues. 
• Studied for his MBA at London Business School. 
• Prior to setting up his company, Patrick held a variety of management and consulting positions with Reuters and Price Waterhouse. 
• Has a particular interest in the parallels between jazz improvisation and creativity for business. 

Anand Narasimhan

• Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. 
• Research interests include the constitution of industries, the organisation of the commercial music industry, knowledge creation in professional service firms, and growth in chain organisations.

Janet Radcliffe Richards

• Reader in Bioethics at University College London, and Director of the Centre for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. 
• Originally specialised in Philosophy of Science, but was increasingly drawn into moral, political and applied philosophy after the 1980 publication of her controversial and influential book: The Sceptical Feminist (Penguin, 1984).  
• Her most recent work has focused on the implications of Darwinism as highlighted in her book: Human Nature after Darwin (Routledge, 2000).

John Roberts

• Professor of Marketing: Joint with Australian Graduate School of Management. 

Henri Servaes

• Professor of Finance at London Business School and has published widely in the world's top finance journals. 
• Research focuses on corporate control and diversification, the capital structure of firms and on initial public offerings. 
• Publications include the "The cost of diversity: The diversification discount and inefficient investment" (Journal of Finance, February 2000), co-authored with Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales. The article received the Distinguished Paper Brattle Prize for outstanding papers in corporate finance published in the Journal of Finance.

Nader Tavassoli

• Professor of Marketing at London Business School. 
• Formerly at MIT Sloan School of Management. 
• Research interests include consumer behaviour across cultures, advertising effectiveness, branding and the cognitive theory of multimedia. 
• Publications include The Differential Interaction of Auditory and Visual Advertising Elements with Chinese and English (with Y-H Lee), Journal of Marketing Research, 2003.

Ginka Toegel

• Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School where she teaches on custom programmes for Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Herbert Smith, Merck and Société Générale as well as on open programmes such as High Performance People Skills. 
• Has a PhD in Psychology and is currently completing a PhD in Management at London Business School. 
• Gained considerable experience as a senior manager of a not-for-profit organisation as a management consultant. 
• Research interests include: strategic decision-making, processing negative emotions in organisations, and multisource feedback.
• Teaches organisational theory and behaviour and industrial psychology at the London School of Economics.

Nikos Tsikritksis

• Assistant Professor of Operations and Technology Management at London Business School. 
• Member of INFORMS, Decision Sciences Institute and the Academy of Management. 
• Research interests include: service performance and profitability, service quality, learning curve, operations strategy and the airline industry.

Freek Vermeulen

• Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management.
• Research interests include corporate strategy and international expansion. 

Naufel Vilcassim

• Professor and Chair of Marketing, London Business School.