 Chris McKenna, Programme Director
Dr Chris McKenna's research interests include the historical development and evolving strategies of professional firms and their role in the global transformation of business nonprofits, and the state. Adept in translating his academic work to popular audiences, McKenna's research has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times. A popular teacher of MBAs and executives, McKenna was nominated twice as one of Oxford University's three best teachers for the UK's National Teaching Fellowship Award.
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 Thomas Powell, Strategy
Professor of Strategy at Saïd Business School, Thomas Powell's research centres around competition, strategy and firm performance. He has published extensively in leading management journals, consults globally on competitive strategy and is a member of the Strategic Management Society. Professor Powell teaches on our MBA and MSc programmes.
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 Rafael Ramirez, Strategic Management
Rafael Ramirez is a James Martin Senior Research Fellow in Futures at the Business School. He has carried out pioneering work on areas as diverse as the aesthetics of business, work, and organisation; the way value creation is being revolutionised, and how scenarios work in business. He has published 5 books and many chapters and papers on these subjects.
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 Mari Sako, International Business
Professor Sako’s research interests focus on the connections between global corporate strategy, comparative business systems and human resource management. Professor Sako is Professor of Management Studies for the Saïd Business School and Senior Fellow of the ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research, researching on productivity and performance in business services.
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 Victor Seidel, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Dr Seidel studies the entrepreneurial processes by which new products are developed within both start-up and established organizations. Drawing from studies of the automotive, medical-device, and consumer-electronics industries, he is currently engaged in studies that look at how organizations employ practices to manage radical new product development. Prior to his PhD studies at Stanford, Dr. Seidel spent ten years in various roles in the semiconductor industry in the USA and Europe.
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 Eric Thun, International Business
Dr Thun is Peter Moores Lecturer in Chinese Business Studies. A political scientist by training, Thun’s research focuses on issues of industrial development in China. Recently, he has investigated the development of the Chinese automotive industry, the globalization strategies of Chinese firms, and China’s integration into global production networks.
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 Marc Ventresca, Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Dr Marc Ventresca, University Lecturer in Management Studies (Strategy and Entrepreneurship) teaches technology, strategy and organizational theory. His research uses strategy, economic sociology and cultural institutionalism to understand industry emergence, innovation and entrepreneurial activity in knowledge intensive industries.
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 Richard Whittington, Strategy
Professor of Strategic Management, Richard Whittington’s current research interest is in building a practice perspective on strategy and organisation and is currently working on three projects within this perspective. Professor Whittington teaches Strategy on all our management degree programmes. Amongst Richard's nine books are the biggest selling strategy textbook in Europe, ‘Exploring Corporate Strategy’.
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 Angela Wilkinson, Scenario Planning & Futures Research
Dr Angela Wilkinson is Director of Scenario Planning and Futures Research at the Saïd Business School’s James Martin Institute. Her interests lie in helping individual organisations and groups to learn from the future, in order to transform global challenges and seemingly intractable problems.
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