Becoming A Better Boss

Julian Birkinshaw is Professor and Chair of Strategy andEntrepreneurship at the London Business School. He has PhDand MBA degrees in Business from the Richard Ivey School ofBusiness, University of Western Ontario, and a BSc (Hons) from theUniversity of Durham. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by theStockholm School of Economics, 2009.
Professor Birkinshaw's main area of expertise is in thestrategy and management of large multinational corporations, and onsuch specific issues as corporate entrepreneurship, innovation,subsidiary-headquarters relationship, knowledge management,network organizations, and global customer management. He is theauthor of eleven other books, including Reinventing Management:Smarter Choices for Getting Work Done (Revised and UpdatedEdition 2012), Giant Steps in Management (2007),Inventuring: Why Big Companies Must Think Small (2003),Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson Way (2002) andEntrepreneurship in the Global Firm (2001), and over seventyarticles in such journals as Harvard Business Review,Sloan Management Review, Strategy Management Journaland Academy of Management Journal. He is active as aconsultant and executive educator to many large companies,including Rio Tinto, SAP, GSK, ABB, Ericsson, Kone, Petrofac, WPP,Bombardier, Sara Lee, HSBC, Akzo Nobel, Roche, Thyssen Krupp, UBS,PWC, Coloplast, BBC, Unilever and Novo Nordisk.
In 1998 the leading British Management magazine ManagementToday profiled Professor Birkinshaw as one of six of the"Next Generation of Management Gurus". He is regularlyquoted in international media outlets, including CNN, BBC, TheEconomist, the Wall Street Journal, and TheTimes. He speaks regularly at business conferences in the UK,Europe, North America and Australia.
Professor Birkinshaw is co-founder with best-selling author GaryHamel of the Management Innovation Lab (MLab), a unique partnershipbetween academia and business that is seeking to accelerate theevolution of management.