David Collis
Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
Schools
- Harvard Business School
- Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Harvard Law School
Expertise
- Beverages
- Electronic and Electrical Equipment
- Consumer Goods
- Alternative Energy
- Insurance
- Electricity
- Human Capital Management
- Pharmaceuticals
- Change management
- Leadership
- Business Services and Consulting
- Legal
- Business Analytics
- Transportation and Logistics
- Banking
- Architecture, Real Estate and Development
- Industry and Manufacturing
- General Management Programs
- Strategy
- Marketing
- Information Technology
- Entrepreneurship
Links
Biography
Harvard Business School
For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed. Previously, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor, the MBA Class of 1958 Senior Lecturer and an Associate Professor in the Strategy group at the Harvard Business School, having also completed five years as the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Business Administration at the Yale School of Management and two years as a professor at Columbia Business School. The winner of the 50th Anniversary McKinsey Award for the best article in the Harvard Business Review in 2008, and a Harvard Business Review best-selling author, he is an expert on corporate strategy and global competition, and is the author of the recent books International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Choices; Corporate Strategy (with Cynthia Montgomery); and Corporate Headquarters (with Michael Goold and David Young). Professor Collis is on the faculty for several HBS Executive Education programs, including Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, and cochairs Building and Sustaining Value Across Markets. As the author of over thirty articles and book chapters, his work has been frequently published in the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and in many books including Managing the Multibusiness Company, International Competitiveness, and Beyond Free Trade. The over one hundred cases and articles he has authored have sold nearly 2.5 million copies, with over 14,000 citations.
David Collis 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, MBA (1978), and received a Ph.D. (1986) in Business Economics at Harvard University where he was a Dean's Doctoral Fellow. From 1978 to 1982 he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London. He is currently a consultant to several major U.S. corporations, and on the Board of Directors of Cambridge in America, the Board of Trustees of the Hult International Business School, and the Advisory Boards of Vivaldi Partners, Muzzy Lane and formerly of Walter Scott PICIS, Ocean Spray, and WebCT. He is also the cofounder of the elearning company E-Edge, and the advisory firm Ludlow Partners.
AWARDS & HONORS
- Recognized as one of the Top One Hundred Most Influential Textbook Authors by the Academy of Management Learning and Education in 2018.
- Recognized as one of the Top Twenty-five Best-selling Case Authors (out of over 8,000 authors) for The Case Centre in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
- “Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?” (with Michael G. Rukstad, April 2008) was selected by the editors at Harvard Business Review for the 2013 HBR OnPoint issue entitled, “Turn Smart Strategy into Winning Performance,” due to the article’s timely relevance in today’s workplace.
- Elected a fellow of The International Academy of Management in 2013 in recognition of an outstanding international contribution to the science and art of management.
- In 2012, Harvard Business Review ranked “Competing on Resources: Strategy in the 1990s” (with Cynthia Montgomery) as one of the top twenty-five most cited articles of all time.
- Harvard Business Review Best Selling Author in 2010 with over one quarter of a million reprints sold.
- Named first-place co-winner of the 50th Anniversary McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review during 2008 for the paper (with the late Michael G. Rukstad) "Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?"
- Selected as the Outstanding Reviewer for Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management in 2008.
- Named 1986 Dean's Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School.
- Selected as a 1978 Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School.
- Named the 1976 Wrenbury Scholar at University of Cambridge (top academic economist of the class).
- Selected as a 1976 Downing Scholar at University of Cambridge.
Videos
Bringing Strategy Back To Life with Harvard Professor Dr. David Collis
Dr. David Collis on Different Types of Value: Potential, Capture and Creation
Courses Taught
Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate
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Leading the Law Firm of the Future
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Driving Digital Strategies
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Leading Professional Service Firms
Harvard Business School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
May 5
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