From TLP
Jeff Ellis
Associate Professor of strategy at Babson College
Professor Ellis’s field of Strategy addresses how the managements of businesses create a competitively profitable and sustainable future from an entrepreneurial perspective. Within this vital area of increasing importance, Dr. Ellis is expert in Strategic Management Processes, Corporate Entrepreneurship Competitive Intelligence, and Scenario Learning. Jeff Ellis has been recognized for executive education, consulting, scholarly work, and academic service.
Jeff has worked with top managers of many Fortune 100 corporations and of smaller businesses as educator, consultant and researcher, He has led the design and delivery of custom executive programs for more than thirty clients including, for example: John Hancock, USA; Stentor (the consortium of Canada’s provincial telephone companies,) Canada; St. Lawrence Cement, Canada; Cable and Wireless, United Kingdom; Department of Trade and Industry, United Kingdom; Digital Equipment Corporation, USA; Allied Domecq, United Kingdom; and Bongrain, France. Additionally, Jeff has supervised more than fifty consulting projects of various kinds for clients that include Xerox, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Arthur D. Little. Specialized educational sessions also have been designed and delivered for many companies and institutions such as IBM, Astra Zeneca, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and SKF.
Dr. Ellis has authored more than eighty papers, case studies, and proceedings in media that include the Sloan Management Review, International Review of Strategic Management, Case Research Journal, Journal of Financial Planning, Competitive Intelligence Review, Journal of Strategic Change, and the International Journal of Physical Distribution. His book, Managing Strategy in the Real World, was reviewed by the most learned society in the Academy of Management Executive as a work of potentially classic academic significance.
He has received awards and been cited seminally for his work on Corporate Entrepreneurship as well as collaborating in originating a technique now known as Business Impact Projects that has been adopted by major corporations worldwide. Jeff might have been the first academic to document the adoption of scenario planning in business. Serving on the board of the Society of Competitive intelligence Professionals for six years he was one of only a few academics who led the development of Competitive Intelligence –leading the launch of The Competitive Intelligence Review within John Wiley, for example. The results of Professor Ellis’ research have been presented at conferences in many countries. Dr. Ellis also has given frequent keynote addresses at executive conferences in the USA and South America in Corporate Entrepreneurship, Competitive Intelligence, and Scenario Learning.
Jeff Ellis is a tenured faculty member of Babson College where he occupied the Ralph Z. Sorenson Professorial Term Chair, directed the One-Year MBA of the F.W. Olin Graduate School, headed the Strategy field, directed many programs for the School of Executive Education, and held a joint appointment with Arthur D. Little. Jeff has led the design and delivery of several integrated programs with teams of faculty as well as educational consulting programs. Special assignments have involved Jeff in work for many overseas universities including: Universidad del Dessorrollo, Chile; Warwick University, England; Helsinki University, Finland; St Andrews University, Scotland; University of Toronto, Canada, Instituto Trevisan, Brazil, University College, Ireland, Trinity College, Ireland, and University of Aarhus, Denmark. His education includes degree and post graduate work at Nottingham, Salford, Warwick, and Cranfield Universities in England, INSEAD in France, and Harvard Graduate School of Business in the USA, among others.