Strategic innovation: Constantinos Markides on strategy and management

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Executive Overview Constantinos Markides is Professor of Strategic and International Management and Chairman of the Strategy Department at the London Business School. A native of Cyprus, he received his B.A. (with distinction) and M.A. in economics from Boston University, and his M.B.A. and D.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He has worked as an associate with the Cyprus Development Bank and as a research associate at the Harvard Business School. Dr. Markides has published on the topics of strategic innovation, corporate restructuring, refocusing and international acquisitions. His book Diversification. Refocusing and Economic Performance, was published by MIT Press in 1995, and All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy, was published by Harvard Business School Press in 1999. A third book, based on a special issue on strategy of Sloan Management Review which he edited, will be published by Jossey-Bass next year. His publications have also appeared in such journals as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Directors & Boards, Leader to Leader, Long Range Planning, Business Strategy Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal and the Academy of Management Journal. He has taught in many in-company programs and is on the Academic Advisory Board of the Cyprus International Institute of Management. He is also a non-executive director of Amathus (U.K.) Ltd., a tour operating company. He is the associate editor of European Management Journal and is on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal and The Academy of Management Journal. Dr. Markides is a member of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society and is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His current research interests include the management of diversified firms and the use of innovation and creativity to achieve strategic breakthroughs.