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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.
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Mercedes Delgado is an Assistant Professor at the
Department of General and Strategic Management at the
Fox School of Business. Professor Delgado currently
serves as Senior Institute Associate at the Institute
for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business
School. Before joining Temple University, she
completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute
for Strategy and Competitiveness, and at the NBER’s
Innovation Policy and the Economy Group. She received
her PhD in Business Economics from the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, and she was a Visiting Scholar at the
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Professor Delgado works on joint research projects with
Professor Michael Porter, including several articles
published in the Global Competitiveness Report. Her
research focuses on the relationship between clusters and
the performance of firms, regions, and countries; the
agglomeration patterns of innovative firms; and country
competitiveness. She has been the recipient of several
fellowships. See:
http://astro.temple.edu/~mdelgado/.
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Clemens Guth is the chief executive of three German
hospitals and a member of the executive board at Artemed Kliniken, a German
national hospital provider. He leads M&A and quality management for the group.
Earning his MD at Imperial College London, Dr. Guth began his career as a Junior
Doctor at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London. Subsequently, he became
a health care consultant for McKinsey & Company. After earning his MBA at
Harvard Business School with honors, he returned to hospitals but as a manager.
A scholarship winner of the German National Academic Foundation and the German
Academic Exchange Service program, Dr. Guth has collaborated with Professor
Porter since 2006 and is a Senior Institute Associate of the Institute for
Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School.
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Sachin H. Jain is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and
Competitiveness. His immediate prior position was senior advisor to Donald M.
Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
At CMS, Jain was involved in the launch of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Innovation that was chartered by Section 3021 of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, briefly serving as its first Acting Deputy Director for
Policy and Programs. As a senior advisor, Jain advocated for speedier
translation of health care delivery research into practice and an expanded use
of clinical registries.
Previously, Jain was Special Assistant to the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology (ONC). At the ONC, Jain worked with David Blumenthal to
implement the HITECH Provisions of the Recovery Act and to achieve broader
alignment between health plans and federal meaningful use policies and enhance
electronic health record usability; he led private sector engagement efforts on
behalf of ONC.
Jain received his undergraduate degree in government from Harvard College; his
medical degree from Harvard Medical School; and his master's degree in business
administration from the Harvard Business School. At Harvard Business School, he
was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship and the Dean's Award.
He is a founder of several non-profit health care ventures including the
Homeless Health Clinic at UniLu; the Harvard Bone Marrow Initiative; and
ImproveHealthCare.org. He worked with DaVita-Bridge of Life to bring charity
dialysis care to rural Rajasthan, India and Medical Missions for Children to
bring cleft lip and palate surgery to the region.
While in residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he previously maintained an
appointment as a faculty member at Harvard Business School and worked with
strategy Michael Porter on his global health agenda and on a new case literature
on health care delivery innovation. Jain has worked previously at WellPoint,
McKinsey & Co, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He has also served
as an expert consultant to the World Health Organization.
Jain has authored over 40 publications on health care delivery innovation and
health care reform in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine,
JAMA, and HealthAffairs. The book he co-edited with Susan Pories and
Gordon Harper, "The Soul of a Doctor," has been
translated into Chinese. He is a cofounder of
Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation.
A native of Bergen County, New Jersey, he now resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Emma
Stanton is a practicing psychiatrist at St Thomas Hospital,
London, part of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation
Trust and CEO of Beacon UK, partnering with NHS to apply
principles of managed mental health care.
From 2010 – 2011, Emma was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness
Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, at the Institute for Strategy and
Competitiveness, where she advanced, expanded and refined the rapidly growing
body of work promoting a value-based approach to health care reform. Her
research included US, German and English health system analysis and improving
value by integrating mental health care delivery into primary care settings.
In addition to clinical training at South London and
Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, former roles include Advisor to England’s Chief
Medical Officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, Advisor to Bupa Health Dialog and
core member of the NHS National Leadership Council. Emma holds an Executive
M.B.A. from Imperial College, London, a MRCPsych from the Royal College of
Psychiatrists, and a Bachelor of Medicine from Southampton University.
A recipient of NHS London’s prestigious “Prepare to Lead”
mentoring scheme, Emma is author of multiple publications including as co-editor
of Clinical Leadership: Bridging the Divide (Quay Books, 2009) and
co-author of M.B.A. for Medics (Radcliffe, 2010).
From 2005-2006 Emma circumnavigated the world on a
68-foot yacht. Emma is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.) and
co-founder of Diagnosis, a clinical leadership social enterprise.
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Elizabeth Teisberg is Professor of
Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School
of Medicine, and a Senior Institute Associate at Harvard's
Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Her expertise is
in Strategy and Innovation. Professor Teisberg speaks and
works internationally on innovation for dramatic improvement
in health care value, actively implementing Redefining
Health Care. She has developed frameworks and cases to
enable the implementation of health care delivery
transformation by physicians, provider systems, employers,
health plans and governments.
Redefining Health Care received the American College of
Healthcare Executives 2007 James A. Hamilton book of the
year award. At UVA, Professor Teisberg also received the
Frederick S. Morton Leadership Award in 2004 and the
Wachovia Award for research excellence in 2006. Prior to
Dartmouth, she held faculty appointments in strategy at the
Darden School of Business and the Harvard Business School.
In addition to Redefining Health Care, Professor Teisberg
co-authored with Michael Porter five articles on health
care, as well as a Harvard Business Review Special Report
'Fixing Competition in U.S. Health Care'. Professors
Teisberg and Porter have also developed courses on Health
Care Delivery that they co-teach at Harvard University. She
also teaches executive education at both Harvard and
Dartmouth, as well as on-site for companies and
organizations. Professor Teisberg's earlier projects have
analyzed strategy in medical device and biotech companies,
real options, research and development decisions, medical
innovation, and strategic response to uncertainty. She has
forthcoming publications on employee health strategy and on
innovation in service delivery.
Professor Teisberg is the author or co-author of numerous
cases and articles in professional publications such as the
Harvard Business Review, Journal of the American Medical
Association, Science, Seminars in Thoracic and
Cardiovascular Surgery, Rand Journal of Economics,
Management Science, Research-Technology Management, and
Interfaces. She is the co-author of The Portable MBA, which
has been published in five languages.
Professor Teisberg earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. in
engineering-economic systems from the
Stanford University School of Engineering. She also holds a
M. Eng. in systems science from the
University of Virginia and an A.B. degree, summa cum
laude, in political science and mathematics from Washington
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Michael L. Unger
Senior Institute Associate
email:
munger loyola edu
In addition to being a Senior Institute Associate at the
Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Michael is Executive-in-Residence,
and Assoc. Professor of Management and International Business at the Sellinger
School of Business, Loyola University Maryland. MBA courses taught by Unger at
Loyola include Globalization and International Business, Managing in Developing
Countries, Global Strategy, and The Microeconomics of Competitiveness. Having
held senior policy positions in the U.S. Government, he has worked in over 35
developing countries in the areas of international trade, finance, investment
and competitiveness. Most recently much of his work has centered on the
regionalization of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as the development of
clusters and competitiveness of Rwanda and Kenya. He is also a visiting
professor at the Strathmore School of Business in Nairobi, Kenya and a senior
fellow in Strathmore’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Current
research interests are FDI as well as cluster formation in developing countries.
Unger received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University and M.A. from
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