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Arturo Condo
Senior Institute Associate 
email: arturo.condo@incae.edu

Arturo Condo is President of INCAE Business School (www.incae.edu), a leading business school and think-tank in Latin America. He is a Full Professor in business strategy, international business and competitiveness as well as a Senior Institute Associate of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard. At CLACDS, the Central American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development, he has led a team of professors and researchers working with private and public leaders to strengthen competitive clusters, to implement competitiveness agendas and in general to promote sustainable development. He has taught at INCAE’s masters and executive programs and is an author and co-author of articles, books and teaching cases in his areas of expertise. Prof. Condo holds a DBA from Harvard Business School; a MBA with High Honors from INCAE, where he is a “Distinguished Scholar” honored for leadership on top of academic excellence; and a BS in Electronic Engineering from ESPOL in Ecuador. Dr. Condo also works as an independent consultant in strategic planning and global strategy for firms and industry organizations in Latin America and Asia and receives invitations as a speaker from around the world.

 

Niels Ketelhöhn
Senior Institute Associate 

Niels Ketelhöhn, an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INCAE where he teaches courses on business strategy and cluster development, is also an Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Prof. Ketelhöhn has taught at INCAE since 1995 and has also served as the Director of Executive Education. He has been a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and also served as an Institute Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Professor Ketelhöhn's research has focused on the role of clusters in regional innovation and growth, and he has written cases on cluster development initiatives in Costa Rica and Central America. Professor Ketelhöhn holds a DBA from Harvard University; a master's degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Industrial Engineering; and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Costa Rica.

Joan Magretta
Senior Institute Associate

Joan Magretta is a Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Her work with Professor Porter began in the early 1990s when she was the strategy editor at the Harvard Business Review. Prior to joining HBR, Dr. Magretta was a partner at the management consulting firm of Bain & Co. Her recent book, What Management Is (Free Press, 2002), reflects her career-long interest in the intersection between strategy and general management. In 1998, she won the McKinsey Award given each year for the best article to appear in HBR. She has also written for the Sloan Management Review. Before getting her MBA at Harvard Business School in 1983, Magretta was a university professor in the humanities. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wisconsin, with an MA from Columbia and a PhD in English from the University of Michigan.

Anita M. McGahan
Senior Institute Associate

Anita M. McGahan is Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Visiting Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Senior Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University, and the past president of the Academy of Management’s Business Policy & Strategy Division. Her credits include two books and over 100 articles, case studies, notes and other published material on strategic issues of competitive advantage, industry evolution, and financial performance. In 2001, she was named by CIO Magazine as one of 5 international experts on the strategic use of technology. She took just two years to earn both her PhD and AM in Business Economics from Harvard University, which she was awarded in 1990. McGahan holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where she received highest academic honors as a Baker Scholar, and a BA from Northwestern University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also spent several years at both McKinsey & Company and Morgan Stanley & Company. In the 1996-1997 academic year, McGahan visited the Stanford Graduate School of Business; in the Winter and Spring of 2007, she visited the London Business School; in the Winter of 2005, she visited the Australian Graduate School of Management. Between 2000 and 2007, she was Professor of Strategy & Policy and Everett Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the Boston University School of Management.

McGahan has taught courses in strategy and history to MBA candidates, executives, and doctoral students at the University of Toronto, Harvard Business School, London Business School and Boston University, where she was elected by her students as Professor of the Year repeatedly. She is consistently ranked as among the best faculty in every program in which she teaches. She developed five new business-school courses (both required and elective) between 1999 and 2006, each of which earned very high ratings and achieved strong – even unprecedented – popularity. Colleagues who teach these courses are also rated very highly by their students. As a result, McGahan has been recognized as a master teacher for her dedication to the success of junior faculty and for her leadership in course development. A passionate advocate of liberal undergraduate education, McGahan has championed the introduction of a history curriculum in Business Schools. At Boston University, she advised minority and foreign students in the Humphrey Fellows program. She also serves on the boards of several charities, scientific associations and a corporation.

McGahan's research has focused on models of industry evolution and the evolution of competitive advantage. She is currently pursuing a long-standing interest in the inception of new industries, and in the implications for comparative advantage and international development. The focus of her current work is on the process of scaling up organizational models in the pharmaceutical, medical devices and health-delivery sectors of emerging economies. She is the author of a 2004 HBS Press book called How Industries Evolve, and was co-editor in 2004 of the 21st volume of Advances in Strategic Management, which deals with issues of industry change. McGahan is on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, and Strategic Organization.

McGahan’s academic publications include studies on the health delivery, pharmaceutical, medical devices, consumer electronics, brewing and insurance industries, among others. She has also conducted case studies on automobiles, wheelchairs, baseball, telecommunications, network software, airlines, pharmaceuticals, movie theaters, soft drinks, toy retailing, retail banking and high-pressure laminates. Her large-scale statistical studies have investigated broad patterns in the performance of companies, such as the rate at which turnarounds occur, the importance of industry conditions to profitability, the conditions for persistence in profitability, and the importance of corporate parents in nurturing risky businesses.

 

Örjan Sölvell
Senior Institute Associate

Dr Örjan Sölvell is Professor of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics, SSE, and Associate Dean of the three SSE PhD programs (Economics, Finance and Business Administration). Dr Sölvell has been active at SSE for 30 years, including being Dean of the MBA program (2004 - 2007) and Director for the Institute of International Business (1994 – 2002). In 2004 he set up a new research institute at SSE, the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness (CSC) (www.sse.edu/csc).

Dr Sölvell’s academic background includes studies at the Stockholm School of Economics (BSc -79; PhD -87), George Washington University (IB -81) and the Harvard Business School (VIS -82). Dr Sölvell has published in the areas of strategy, competition, competitiveness and clusters. The concept of clusters, and the diamond model, was introduced in Sweden through the book “Advantage Sweden” in 1991, co-authored with Michael Porter and Ivo Zander. Together with Christian Ketels and Göran Lindqvist he published the widely acclaimed “Cluster Initiative Greenbook” in 2003, also translated into Czech and Polish.

Dr Sölvell is involved in policy related work in Sweden and Europe, including being in charge of the European Cluster Observatory (www.clusterobservatory.eu). He also serves on the Advisory board of The Competitiveness Institute, TCI, and is a Fellow of the European International Business Academy.

 

Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
Senior Institute Associate

Elizabeth Teisberg is co-author of Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. She is a tenured member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, in the Darden Graduate School of Business, where Dr. Teisberg received the Wachovia award for outstanding research in 2006 and Frederick S Morton award for Leadership in 2004. Professors Porter and Teisberg received the American College of Healthcare Executive’s Book of the Year Award for 2007.

Dr. Teisberg speaks nationally and internationally on health care strategy and policy. She is a Senior Institute Associate at the Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. She is a member of the Global Changing Diabetes Advisory Board, and co-chair of the Aspen Health Stewardship Advisory Board.

Dr. Teisberg has ongoing research in health sector innovation, focusing on the implementation of Redefining Health Care by employers, clinicians, providers, health plans, and suppliers. She also teaches in the fields of Innovation and Strategy for both MBA students and executives. She is the designer of Darden’s elective course on Innovation, and was previously the Course Head for the school’s required MBA courses on Strategy and on Operations Management. While on the faculty at Harvard, she taught the MBA required course in Strategy and the elective on Technology and Strategy. In addition to her health sector research, Dr. Teisberg’s publications have focused on strategy, real options, and environmentally sustainable innovation. She is also co-author of The Portable MBA, which has been published in five languages as well as about 50 cases and articles.

Dr. Teisberg earned her Ph.D. in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University. She also holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Virginia and an A.B. degree, summa cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

 
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