Biography

Richard D'AVENI

2007 ranking: 46

RICHARD A. D'AVENI: BIOGRAPHY

Richard D'Aveni is one of the pre-eminent strategists of his generation. Best known for his work on hyper-competition, D'Aveni is Professor of Strategic Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and a winner of the prestigious A. T. Kearney Award for his research.

A highly sought after advisor and speaker, D'Aveni has addressed senior executive audiences all over the world, including the World Economic Forum's Annual Summit at Davos, Switzerland; and the French Senate, in Paris. He consults to Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the world's wealthiest families, helping them shape their winning strategies.

According to The (London) Times: "D'Aveni is strategy's answer to realpolitik. The champion of dynamic strategy over static analysis, he is a battlefield general in a world dominated by Ivy League theorists."

Thought Leadership

Professor D'Aveni is the author of several highly influential articles in the Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review, as well as the bestselling book Hyper-competition, which is available in 11 languages. His follow-up book, Strategic Supremacy, is available in 4 languages. His new book, Beating the Commodity Trap: How Smart Companies Out-maneuver their Rivals to Win the Price War, is forthcoming in 2008.

His writings are credited with creating a new paradigm in the field of strategic management based on temporary advantages - using rapid maneuvering rather than on defensive barriers.

His client list includes some of the world's best-known companies. Among them: GE, Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Pepsico, General Motors, and Schering Plough; and major European companies such as Fininvest Italia, Philips Electronics, and Reuters. He also consults to a small number of individual business leaders.

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