 Lalit Johri
Programme Director, The Oxford AMLP; Fellow in International Studies, Saïd Business School
Lalit Johri’s research, teaching and consulting experience is in the field of international business. His research focus has been on growth strategies of international companies in automobile, processed food, telecom services and public utilities sectors. Lalit is on the editorial board of International Journal of Emerging Markets; and Production and Operations Management Society Chronicle. He holds an MSc in Physics and a Masters and PhD in Business Administration and has been a Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand for many years.
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 Kunal Basu
Reader in Marketing
Kunal Basu is a Reader in Marketing at the Saïd Business School, Oxford. Prior to Oxford, he was a tenured Associate Professor at McGill University and Director of the Powercorp Centre for International Management Studies, Montreal, Canada. A PhD from the University of Florida, Kunal has published extensively in areas of branding strategy, brand loyalty, international marketing, consumer behaviour and advertising. His recent research focuses on the interface between strategic marketing and corporate social responsibility, drawing on theoretical perspectives from philosophy, and social and organisational theory. Kunal consults regularly for major international corporations, multilateral agencies and government departments.
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 Thomas Powell
Professor of Strategy, Saïd Business School
Thomas Powell is a Fellow of Management Studies at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and teaches in Saïd’s MBA, MSc and Economics and Management programmes. His research deals with competition, strategy and firm performance and he has published extensively in leading management journals such as Strategic Management Journal and Academy of Management Review. He received his PhD from New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Management, and has taught at universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, France and the UK. He consults globally on competitive strategy and is a member of the Strategic Management Society, Academy of Management and American Economic Association.
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 Angela Wilkinson
Director, Scenarios and Futures Research, Saïd Business School
Angela Wilkinson has worked on a broad range of scenario and strategy projects on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell and for its key strategic stakeholders for more than ten years; including host governments, multilateral institutions and other large companies. From 1997-2006, Angela was a senior member of the Global Business Environment team, which develops the well known Shell Global Scenarios. She was responsible for further innovating the practice of scenarios-to-strategy across a range of purposes, including strategic sense making, project- and country-risk review and issues and crisis management. Angela has directed several ambitious public-private initiatives, aimed at using scenario-based processes to effectively frame and address global concerns, most recently AIDS in Africa.
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 Sue Dopson
Programme Tutor; Rhodes Trust Reader in Organisational Behaviour
Sue Dopson teaches elements of the University's degree programme in Management, and is a postgraduate tutor. Sue runs the tutorial programme within the Oxford AMP and teaches a number of other executive programmes. As a member of the Oxford Health Care Management Institute (OHCMI) she is involved in the development of courses for the NHS and a number of research projects, including the evaluation of projects aimed at improving clinical effectiveness, exploring issues of getting the results of medical research evidence into clinical practice and more general research in the area of NHS management. Her most recent research involves considering how developments in genetic science will influence clinical practice and health care policy.
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 Marc Bertoneche
Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School
Marc Bertoneche has been a regular faculty member on the Oxford AMP for more than ten years. A Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he taught finance on the MBA, Advanced Management, General Manager and other senior executive programmes. Marc is author or co-author of six books, two videos and more than 50 published articles on various financial topics. His areas of interest include corporate and financial strategy, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, financial markets, corporate ownership and governance, risk management and international finance and he advises clients on financial planning, working capital management, corporate valuation, mergers and acquisitions, value management, new ventures and hedging interest rate and foreign exchange exposures.
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 Steve New
University Lecturer in Operations Management; Saïd Business School
Steve New's research focuses on buyer-seller interactions, supply chain management and operations management. His interest lies in developing a more rigorous appreciation of how individuals and organisations construct and interpret their environment and the systems in which they operate. Steve's recent work has concentrated on process improvement in public sector organisations. Other areas of interest include business process outsourcing and supplier assessment and development. With Roy Westbrook, he edited Supply Chains: Concepts, Critiques and Futures, published by University of Oxford Press in 2004. He recently edited a special issue of the International Journal of Production Research celebrating thirty years of work on the Toyota Production System.
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 Jeff Sampler
Fellow in Strategy and Technology
Jeff Sampler’s research interests include electronic commerce, the management of information as a strategic resource, and developing information-based strategies. His work has appeared - or is forthcoming - in such journals as Fortune, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management Information Systems, Sloan Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal. His paper with John Cross and Michael Earl on the “Transformation of IT at British Petroleum Exploration” won first prize in the Society of Information Managers’ paper competition. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and executive education programmes and has been featured in Newsweek and CNBC.
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 Keith Ruddle
Fellow in Leadership, Organisation and Change, Saïd Business School
Keith Ruddle has been at Oxford since 1993, specialising in strategic and organisational change. Private sector executive leadership clients have included Standard Chartered Bank, BMW, British Energy, De Beers and Accenture. Keith has a number of public sector interests. In 1996/97 he co-led a programme for Labour’s Shadow Cabinet on preparing for change in U.K. Government. Advisory work with the Government has included the future of Work and Pensions, the DTI’s Entrepreneurship initiative, and public sector leadership with the Cabinet Office. Previous work experience includes 20 years with British Aerospace, BP and Accenture.
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 Kurt April
Associate Fellow, Organisation and Change, Saïd Business School
Prof. Kurt April, lectures and researches in the disciplines of Leadership, Diversity & Inclusion, and has been a regular Faculty member and tutor on numerous Executive Education programmes at Egrove Park. He currently consults, and has consulted to a range of industries, including: Shell International (Europe, Asia & USA), SABMiller (SA & London), De Beers (SA, Namibia & Botswana), Standard Chartered Bank (UK, Singapore, Thailand & Africa), Dutch Police Service (Netherlands), IBM (Global) and RWE (Germany). He is an author of seven books, and over 80 academic articles. Outside of academia, he is Managing Director of LICM Consulting, Heads a NHS International Advisory Faculty on diversity and equality issues, is member of the International Advisory Council of Novartis International and is a Non-Executive Board member of Achievement Awards.
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 Stephan Chambers
EMBA Director, Saïd Business School
Stephan Chambers is the EMBA director at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School where he teaches entrepreneurial finance. He is also Chairman of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and of IWA Publishing. He serves on the advisory boards of Princeton University Press and an early stage investment fund, Dawn Capital. Before joining the business school he was a director of Blackwell Publishing. He is a Fellow of St Cross College.
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 Yvonne Gilan
Visiting Faculty Member, Saïd Business School
In 1980, former actress Yvonne Gilan recognised the need for company leaders to improve their presentation and communication skills, and subsequently developed a programme of exercises to reduce stress, stimulate the imagination and develop presence. She encourages participants, whether they face an audience of one or a thousand and one, to communicate comfortably, confidently, clearly – even charismatically. Yvonne has directed and produced conferences world wide for clients such as IBM and American Express, and has appeared in several films; Chariots of Fire, Empire of the Sun and Agatha, she also played Madame Peignoir in Fawlty Towers. Yvonne has worked with a number of Senior Figures over many disciplines: academic, medical, legal, corporate, media, political, and teaches clients to appreciate the power and subtlety of their unique musical instrument the Voice. |
Programme Tutors: |
 Heather Katz
Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School
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 Ian Saunders
Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School
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