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Richard D’Aveni is professor of strategic management at the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth University. An expert on competitive strategy, and winner of the prestigious A.T. Kearney Award for outstanding research in general management by the Academy of Management, D’Aveni is probably best known for the concept of hyper-competition, a term he coined in the early 1990s.
His 1994 book Hyper-competition was described by Fortune magazine as "a modern-day analogue to The Art of War.” In it, D’Aveni presciently envisaged a world where sustainable advantage was no longer possible. He developed this idea in Hyper-competitive Rivalries (1995); and then in Strategic Supremacy (2001), he demonstrated how companies could achieve supremacy in a hyper-competitive world.
In Beating the Commodity Trap: How Smart Companies Out-maneuver their Rivals to Win the Price War (2010), D'Aveni looked at how firms can turn commoditization to their advantage. In his forthcoming book Strategic Capitalism, he addresses the competitive clash of nations, arguing that China and America are competing on different models of capitalism.