The Capstone encyclopedia of business - Capstone

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.

Rene Mauborgne

Rene 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 Ridderstrle

Jonas Ridderstrle 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. Nordstrm) 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).

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