Professor Costas Markides, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, is a leading voice on strategic leadership, disruptive innovation and business model change. He was ranked #31 on the Thinkers50 list in 2011 and shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Strategy Award that year, a strategic management award. He holds the Robert P Bauman Chair in Strategic Leadership at London Business School.
Widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on business strategy and strategic innovation, Professor Costas Markides shows how established companies can pursue radical or disruptive innovation while protecting competitive advantage.
His books include All the Right Moves (1999), Fast Second (2004) and Game-Changing Strategies (2008). He is known for sessions that help individual managers design innovative solutions they can use straight away, supported by clear management ideas and real life examples.
A graduate of Harvard Business School and Boston University, Professor Markides worked with the Cyprus Development Bank and as a research associate at Harvard Business School before joining London Business School in 1990. He has taught on a wide range of in-company programmes and has served on the editorial boards of leading journals.
He sat on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society from 2013 to 2019 and has participated at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He teaches strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School.
Professor Markides writes on strategic innovation, corporate restructuring, business model innovation and international acquisitions. His work appears in journals such as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Strategy and Management and European Management Journal. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society, and advises leaders on how to shape continuous innovation across international management settings.
His books include Organizing for the New Normal, Game-Changing Strategies: How to Create New Market Space in Established Industries by Breaking the Rules, Diversification, Refocusing and Economic Performance and All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy.
He also co-edited Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy and co-authored…
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