Dr Yezid Sayigh works on the politics of the Middle East. He
is Assistant Director of Studies at The Centre of International Studies, University of
Cambridge. He also holds a post at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies,
where he is Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East. He helped negotiate the
PLO-Israel accord of May 1994, and headed the Palestinian delegation to the Multilateral
Working Group on Arms Control and Regional Security.Dr Sayigh's most recent publications
include: Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement,
1949-1993 (Clarendon Press, 1997), The Third World Beyond the Cold War: Continuity and
Change (co-edited with Louise Fawcett, Oxford, 1999), and The Middle East and the Cold War
(co-edited with Avi Shlaim, Oxford, 1997). |
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George Yip was Beckwith Professor of
Management Studies at the Judge Institute until December 2000, and is now Professor of
Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. His research
interests include: Global Strategy, Global Marketing, Global Customer Management,
Electronic and Internet Marketing, Competitive Strategy and Asian
Business.Professor Yip's recent publications include: Strategies for Central and Eastern
Europe (Macmillan Business 2000); Asian Advantage (Addison Wesley 1998 and Perseus Books
2000);Global Account Management, International Marketing Review (1996); Developing
Strategies for Service Businesses, California Management Review (1994); Total Global
Strategy (Prentice Hall 1992). He sits on the Editorial Board of: Journal of
International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, and the Journal of
International Marketing. |
Alan Hughes is Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise
Studies, Director of the ESRC Centre for Business
Research and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Professor Hughes has extensive
professional, academic and consultancy experience, and sits on the following boards and
committees:The Advisory Council on Science and Technology (ACOST);Bank of England: Small
Firms Advisory Group;Board of Trade: Working Party on Competitiveness and
Investment;Cabinet Office: Member of Study Group on Barriers to Growth in Small Firms;DTI
and British Bankers Association, on Evaluation of the Small Business Initiative;DTI, on
Evaluation of Business Link Enterprise Support System; and UN, World Institute for
Development Economic Research. Recent publications include: "Innovation in UK SMEs:
Causes and Consequences" in Acs, Z., Carlsson, B., and Karlsson, C. (eds.)
Entrepreneurship SMEs and the Macro Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (with
Cosh, A.D. and Wood, E.) 1999; Enterprise Britain: Growth Innovation and Public Policy in
the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Sector 1994-1997, ESRC Centre for Business Research,
University of Cambridge (with Cosh, A.D.) (eds.) 1998. |
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Peter Hiscocks is Director of the Cambridge
Entrepreneurship Centre, part of the Judge Institute where he has taught Innovation and
Design Management on the MBA programme since 1993. Previously a Principal of Integral
Europe Ltd, a specialist consultancy in product development and innovation management with
connections to the Harvard Business School, Mr Hiscocks advised companies on technology
development opportunities. Before he moved to consulting, Mr. Hiscocks worked in industry
for eight years as R&D Planning Manager in speciality chemicals, and as Corporate
Technical Planner for a major engineering company. A graduate chemist with an MBA, Mr
Hiscocks has also taught at the London Business School and Imperial College, University of
London and has 6 patents published and pending. |
Peter Hugh Nolan is Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management
and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Professor Nolan's research interests
are: Big business; globalisation; China; developing countries; poverty; migration. He is
the Chair of Cambridge University Development Studies Committee; Director of Chinese Big
Business Programme; Member of Editorial Board of Cambridge Journal of Economics; Member of
the Executive Committee of the China Quarterly; and Joint Editor of Studies in the
Economies of East and Southeast Asia, Macmillan.Selected Publications include: Coca-Cola
and the Global Business Revolution: a Study with Special Reference to the EU, Polity
Press, Cambridge (1999); Indigenous Large Firms in China's Economic Reform: the Case of
Shougang Iron and Steel Corporation, Contemporary China Institute, London (1998). |
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Geoff
Walsham is Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems).
Professor Walsham is member of the editorial board of Accounting, Management and
Information Technologies; Ethics and Information Technology; European Journal of
Information Systems; International Transactions in Operational Research; and Wiley Series
on Information Systems. His research interests include: the development, use and
management of computer-based information systems; and implications for work, organisations
and societies. Recent publications include: "GIS for District-Level Administration in
India: Problems and Opportunities" MIS Quarterly 23 (1999) (with S. Sahay); "IT
and Changing Professional Identity: Micro-Studies and Macro-Theory" Journal of the
American Society for Information Science 23 (1998); and Information Technology and Changes
in Organizational Work, Chapman & Hall, London (1996) (ed.) (with W.J. Orlikowski,
M.R. Jones, J.I. Degross). |
Professor Chong Ju Choi is Director
of the Judge MBA programme. His research interests include: Comparative business systems,
knowledge management and e-commerce. Recent publications include: "A Note on
Countertrade: Contractual Uncertainty and Transaction Governance in Emerging
Economies", Journal of International Business Studies 30 (1), (with Lee, S.H. and
Kim. J.B.); "Global Competitiveness and National Attractiveness" International
Studies of Management and Organization, 29 (1);"Political embeddedness in the new
triad: implications for emerging economies" Management International Review, 39 (3)
1999; "Advantages of groups in market transactions" Human Relations 52 (12)
1999, (with B. Hilton); "Increasing returns and social contagion in cultural
industries" British Journal of Management 10 (3) 1999, (with M. Kretschmer & G.
Klimis); "Herding behavior and commitment to quality" Economica 67 (3) 2000,
(with X. Dassiou & D. Maldoom); and International Business in Emerging Markets
Macmillan Publishers, 2000 (with R. Grant & C. Millar). |
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Dr Jaideep Prabhu is the
Retreat's Course Leader and is a University Lecturer in Marketing at the Judge Institute.
Dr Prabhu's research interests include: Marketing strategy, managerial and organizational
learning, new product development, competitiveness of small versus large firms. He has
taught Strategic Marketing and International Marketing at the University of California,
Los Angeles and at Tilburg University in the Netherlands prior to moving to JIMS. Selected
recent publications include: "Strategy Based Segmentation of Industrial
Markets," with Theo Verhallen and Ruud Frambach, Industrial Marketing Management,
vol. 27 (July), 1998."Marketing Strategy in the 21st Century: Intra- and
Inter-Firm Organization in the Race Towards Market Orientation," in Strategic Issues
at the Dawn of a New Millennium, eds. El-Namaki, Samson, Aidis and Moharir, Lansa
Publishing BV, The Netherlands. "Do Consumers Ever Learn? Analysis of Segment
Behavior in Experimental Markets," with Gerard Tellis, forthcoming in Journal of
Behavioral Decision Making. |
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