Chris McKenna
Reader in Business History and Strategy at Said Business School
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- Said Business School
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Said Business School
Christopher McKenna is University Reader in Business Strategy and History, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and the Academic Director of the Diploma in Strategy & Innovation at the Saïd Business School. He studies the historical development and strategy of professional firms, and their role in shaping global business. His current research project is the history of white-collar crime from the South Sea Bubble to the present.
Chris was an undergraduate in economics at Amherst College and completed his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University. He has worked on Wall Street and in the City of London and has held research fellowships at Yale University, Georgetown Law, and the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Saïd Business School, Chris taught at the Wharton School in the University of Pennsylvania.
Areas of expertise:
Organisational and technological change since the Second Industrial Revolution
Transmission and translation of management models
International history of white collar crime
Influence of professionals in shaping corporate governance
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