Publisher's Synopsis
The Capstone Encyclopedia of Business advisory board, featuring some of the biggest names in current business thinking:
Julian Birkinshaw
Julian Birkinshaw is Tenured Associate Professor and Co–Chair of the Department of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He is the author of five books, including Inventuring (2003) and Leadership the Sven–Goran Eriksson Way (2002). In 1998 the leading British management magazine Management Today profiled Julian Birkinshaw as one of six of the ‘Next Generation of Management Gurus'.
Peter Cohan
Peter Cohan is president of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture
capital firm. His strategy consulting practice helps managers to identify, evaluate, and profit from
opportunities created by changing technology. Cohan has written several books including Value
Leadership: Seven Principles That Define CorporateValue in Any Economy (2003).
Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove
Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove are the founders of Suntop Media. They write columns for The
Times and Chief Executive and are contributing editors to Strategy & Business . Their work appears
in leading business magazines throughout the world and their syndicated interview series is sold
to 20 countries. Their book credits include Firestarters! (2001) and Generation Entrepreneur (2000). They are the editors of the Financial Times Handbook of Management.
Andrew Kakabadse
Andrew Kakabadse is Professor of International Management Development, Deputy Director of
the School of Management at Cranfield University. His books include the bestselling Essence of Leadership , Politics of Management , Working in Organisations and The Wealth Creators . His two most recent books are Geopolitics of Governance and Smart Sourcing:International Best Practice . He holds positions on the boards of a number of companies and edits the Journal of Management Development.
W. Chan Kim
W. Chan Kim is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy
and International Management at INSEAD Business School, France. Prior to joining INSEAD,
he was a professor at the University of Michigan Business School. He has served as a board member
as well as an advisor for a number of multinational corporations and has published numerous articles. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos and the winner of the Eldridge Haynes Prize.
Renée Mauborgne
Renée Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Strategy and Management
at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and Fellow of the World Economic Forum. She has served as an advisor for a number of multinational corporations in Europe, the US and Pacific Asia. She has published numerous articles on strategy and managing the multinational.
Georgina Peters
Georgina Peters is senior editor at Suntop Media. Her work appears in business publications around
the world including Business Life and Silver Kris , the Singapore Airlines in–flight magazine. She is
a contributor to the Financial Times Handbook of Management .
Jonas Ridderstråle
Jonas Ridderstråle works as an assistant professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership
at the Stockholm School of Economics and was recently recognized as Sweden's outstanding young academic of the year. He is an advisor, lecturer and consultant to a number of international corporations. His book Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance (co–authored with Kjell A. Nordström) is an international bestseller that has been translated into more than 25 languages.
Fons Trompenaars
In 1989 Fons founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 it has operated as Trompenaars Hampden–Turner. Fons Trompenaars is the author of Riding the Waves of Culture, Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business , which has sold over 120,000 copies. His most recent book is Did the Pedestrian Die? published 2003.
Bruce Tulgan
Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace. He is an advisor to business leaders all over the world, the author of twelve different books and numerous management training programmes including Winning The Talent Wars (2001) and Managing Generation X (2000).
