Corporate Strategy

Biography: David J. Collins is an associate professor in the Business, Government, and Competition area at the Harvard School of Business Administration. He is an expert on global competition and corporate strategy. His current research is an international comparison of the corporate office in large multibusiness corporations. His work has recently been published in the Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, European Management Journal, and in the books International Competitiveness, Beyond Free Trade, and Managing the Multibusiness Company.

He received an M.A. (1976) with a Double First from Cambridge University where he was the Wrenbury Scholar of the University. He graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, M.B.A. (1978), and received a Ph.D. (1986) in Business Economics at Harvard University where he was a Dean's Doctoral Fellow. He taught for one year at Columbia University before joining the Harvard faculty in 1986. From 1978 to 1982 he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London advising European companies on corporate strategy and global competition. He is currently a consultant to several large U.S. and European corporations.

Cynthia A. Montgomery received her Ph.D. in Industrial Administration from Purdue University in 1979. Her dissertation research on corporate diversification received the 1980 General Electric Award for Outstanding Research in Strategic Management. Professor Montgomery's first faculty position was at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Michigan. In 1985 she moved to the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern where she was recognized with its Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in 1988. In 1989 she joined the faculty at the Harvard Business School.

Professor Montgomery's research centers on corporate strategy and the competitiveness of diversified firms. Of particular interest are issues relating to the markets in which multibusiness firms compete, the firms' resource bases, and the creation of value across multiple lines of business.

Professor Montgomery is the editor of Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage (with Michael E. Porter) and Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm: Towards a Synthesis. She has published in The Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, The Journal of Business, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The American Economic Review, The Rand Journal of Economics, Harvard Business Review, and others. She is on the board of directors of several Merrill Lynch mutual funds and UNUM Corporation.

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Books at MeansBusiness by: David Collis
Books at MeansBusiness by: Cynthia Montgomery