Michael holds the Sir Donald Gordon Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the London Business
School, where he is Associate Professor of Strategy. He has held visiting appointments at Wharton,
Harvard Business School, NYU- Stern, has visited Bocconi, U. of Paris and Singapore Management
University, and teaches in Columbia for the LBS/Columbia EMBA-Global. He has served on the Global
Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum on the Financial System and the Future of
Investments, and is a Visiting Scholar with the New York Fed, focusing on changing business models
in Financial Services. He studied in Athens, Cambridge, Stanford and Wharton, where he obtained
his PhD.
Michael’s focus is change, design and strategy: he studies industry evolution, value migration, new
business models, and structural change in firms and sectors. He is also interested in organizational
design and how firms cope with organizational pathologies. His research has earned him the Sloan
Foundation Award for the best Industry Study, and he has raised over £1M in research funds. A
Ghoshal Fellow in the Advanced Institute of Management, his research has been sponsored by the
Leverhulme Trust, NATO, MBAA, the WEF and other private and public bodies. He has worked with
Santander, Credit Suisse, BBVA, Goldman Sachs, Lloyds, RBS, Zurich, if, Airbus, Finmeccanica, Pirelli,
Lufthansa, Vodafone, Telenor, DT, Nokia, McKinsey, PwC, KPMG, MerckSerono, Chiesi
Pharmaceutica, Roche and the NHS on executive development, thought leadership and strategy.
He has given keynotes for corporate events and for industry associations, including Accenture,
McKinsey, PwC, Winterthur, the British Bankers Association, the Mortgage Senate, the Institute of
Sovereign Investors, the Healthcare Forum, FIDI, ACE, RICS, and has spoken on TEDx, as well as in
sessions for the WEF meetings in Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul, New York, Rome, and in Davos, where
he has facilitated public and private events. On policy, he is working with the WEF, the UK
parliament (on the future of Financial Services), the European Council (a task-force advising
President Van Rompuy on Innovation & Entrepreneurship) and has spearheaded the
www.RedesignGreece.gr initiative, which aims to help restructure the Greek public administration.
His current degree teaching is on Managing Corporate Turnarounds, a popular phenomenon-driven
strategy elective.
A former VP of the European Academy of Management and officer of the Academy of Management
and the Strategic Management Society, Michael has published in academic journals such as the
Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, Academy of Management
Journal, Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Financial Perspectives and Industrial &
Corporate Change where he serves as the co-Editor. He writes for the Harvard Business Review,
Financial Times, Forbes.com, Huffington Post, Business Strategy Review, Greek dailies To Vima and
Kathimerini, where he holds an OpEd column. He has been interviewed by the BBC, NPR, FT,
TheStreet.com, Reuters, Bloomberg, Radio 5, Radio France, El Pais, Dubai’s The National, the Russian
State TV24, SKAI and ANT1, and appears regularly on CNN.
Michael Jacobides Discusses Strategic Dynamics of Changing "Industry Architectures"