Academic Focus

David’s research interests include marketing strategy, innovation and market evolution, brand management, and global customer management.

Experience

He consults to multinational companies on various aspects of international marketing. His publications have included The Mirage of Global Markets (2003), Can Selling be Globalized? (2001), Seven Rules of International Distribution (2000) and The Handbook of Brand Management (1992). David also holds adjunct faculty positions at two other business schools.

Experience

John Bates is the founder and a director of Sussex Place Ventures Ltd, the School’s in-house venture capital fund manager. For 10 years he led the School’s practical initiatives in developing entrepreneurial firms. This included €20 million of pre-seed and seed venture capital funds and various networks of entrepreneurs, advisors and private investors who have supported over 70 alumni-founded or affiliated companies since 1998.

He started teaching and developing Strategy and Entrepreneurship courses at LBS in 1985, while also starting up, running and selling two technology businesses in Cambridge. He developed and taught New Venture Development, Managing the Growing Business and New Creative Ventures MBA electives and the popular Growing Your Business Open Executive programme. As Fellow in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, he continues to teach on custom programmes for Executive Education clients and the Entrepreneurship Summer School for Masters students.

He received his BSc from Nottingham University in 1972. Following a sales career in the scientific equipment and pharmaceutical industries in the UK and Africa, he graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA with high distinction in 1979.

Mr Bates then became a Marketing Manager for International Paint (now part of AkzoNobel), launching the highly successful Interpon range of solvent-free coatings worldwide. He was invited back to Harvard as a lecturer on the MBA programme in 1983, before joining the London Business School faculty part-time the following year.

Since then he has balanced a career as an entrepreneur, educator, investor and investment manager. He is chairman of DocSociety, Chattermill Ltd , Colmeia Ltd (Hiver) and New Unity CIO (Charity). He is an investor, director or board advisor of a number of early-stage ventures and growing businesses in the creative and technology industries in London.

Academic Focus

Julian’s main area of expertise is in the strategy and management of large multinational corporations, specifically corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, change management and subsidiary headquarters relationships.

Recent Clients

Rio Tinto, ABN Amro, UBS, Tata Group, Exxon.

Experience

Professor Julian Birkinshaw was ranked 46th in the 2017 Thinkers50 list of the top global management thinkers. Consultant and executive educator with companies all over the world. He is the author of 15 books, including Fast/Forward, Becoming a Better Boss, Reinventing Management and Giant Steps in Management, and more than 90 articles in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.

Academic Focus

Rupert teaches on Executive Education programmes around the themes of entrepreneurship, owner management and the management of growth. Rupert works with ambitious entrepreneurial businesses around the world helping to plan and implement their strategies and growth plans.

Experience

Rupert is both a chartered accountant and a qualified HR professional, so has an unusual mix of experience when it comes to advising on the implementation of strategy. Previously Rupert was a partner of BDO for 16 years. He is the author of 7 books on growth, governance and management, the latest of which, Growing a Business, was published by The Economist in 2016. He currently sits on 3 boards as a non-executive director.

Academic Focus

John’s numerous Best Teacher Awards reflect both his 20 years of executive experience in the retailing industry in America and his award-winning research focused on fast-growing entrepreneurial companies. John is the author of two best-selling books, <em>The New Business Road Test</em> and, with Randy Komisar, <em>Getting to Plan B</em>.

Experience

John has consulted with and taught executive education on five continents for organisations such as Novartis, the Young Presidents Organisation, Kenya Airways and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Co-founder of several start-ups, his entrepreneurial work includes helping on the expansion of the retail chain Gap.