From TLP
Paul Verdin
Chair in Strategy and Organization at the Solvay Business School, ULB, Belgium
Paul Verdin is Professor and Chair in Strategy and Organization at the Solvay Business School (ULB, Brussels), Professor of Strategy & International Management at K.U.Leuven (B) and “Distinguished Visiting Professor” at INSEAD (F), where he has been on the faculty for 15 years. Previously he was a professor at IESE Business School (E), and a number of other organizations and academic institutions throughout Europe and the U.S.
He obtained the M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics (Industrial Organization) from Harvard University, where he was a Teaching Fellow at the JFK School of Government and the Economics Department. He combined this with work with McKinsey & Co., Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, the I.M.F. and the World Bank.
He directed executive seminars and strategy workshops, and consulted on strategy processes for a wide range of companies, established multinationals as well as small and medium sized companies, across a variety of industries and sectors, and is a partner with The Learning Partnership Inc., an international strategy and leadership development network based in London and New York. A regular keynote speaker on top management conferences, he also serves as a non-executive board member of companies and non-profit institutions.
Dr.Verdin’s earlier empirical research on strategy focused on industry analysis and competence-based competition and more recently, with Prof. Hawawini (former Dean of INSEAD) and Prof. Venkat Subramanian (Hong Kong University), on the critical role of company strategy and organization for long-term value creation and innovation.
Since many years he has also been researching the strategic and organizational issues and processes for globalising companies, particularly from a European perspective, developing award-winning case studies in a variety of industries, winning up to three times a First Prize in the well-known EFMD International Case Competitions (European Foundation for Management Development).
He has published in leading academic journals, including The Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of World Business, The European Management Journal, The British Journal of Management, Long Range Planning and in several books, such as Competence Based Competition (ed. by G. Hamel & A. Heene), Building the Strategically Responsive Organization (ed. By H. Thomas et. al.), The Future of the Multinational Company (ed. J. Birkinshaw et.al.) and leading international text books on strategy and international management.
His book ‘From Local Champions to Global Masters : A Strategic Perspective on Managing Internationalization’ (with N.Van Heck), is intended as a critical reflection guide for managers in dealing with the many pitfalls and real opportunities of managing internationalization strategies (first published in 2001, London-New York, Palgrave/MacMillan/St.Martin’s, reprinted and translated into Spanish, French and Dutch). He previously published a video under the same title with Video Management/Financial Times Knowledge in the INSEAD video series.
His work has been covered in the professional and general business press including CFO Europe, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Treasury Management International, Accountancy, Optimize, Wirtschaftswoche, Handelsblatt, Expansion Management Review, Courrier Cadres, Trends- Tendances Magazine, the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Financial Times.