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Stewart Black

at IMD Business School

Professor of Management Practice in Global Leadership and Strategy at INSEAD Business School

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  • INSEAD Business School
  • IMD Business School

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IMD Business School

Stewart Black is Professor of Global Leadership and Strategy at IMD. He specializes in leadership, strategy, change, globalization, Human capital and stakeholder engagement.

Professor Black is a co-author of the textbook, Management: Meeting New Challenges, and more than a dozen other highly regarded books, including It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations; Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun; Leading Strategic Change: Breaking through the Brain Barrier; International Business Environments; Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders. He has also authored over 50 articles in both managerial and academic publications, including: Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Workforce, International Business, Mobility, Personnel, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Group & Organization Studies, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies.

Professor Black has worked with a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations in all major regions of the world but has spent more than half of his career living and working in Asia. Much of his consulting has involved working with senior teams to analyze their environment, formulate strategy, and align organizational and leadership capabilities to achieve business objectives. These engagements have involved process skills in getting the team through discussions and debates to points of decision and commitment, as well as content knowledge in key areas such as strategy, change, and human resources.

Professor Black received his undergraduate degree in Psychology and English from Brigham Young University, where he graduated with honors. He earned his master degree from the business school at Brigham Young University, where he was on the dean’s list and graduated with distinction. After graduation, he worked for a Japanese consulting firm, where he eventually held the position of managing director. Professor Black returned to the U.S. and received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine.

Professor Black started his career on the faculty at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. Later he was a professor of business administration at the University of Michigan and Executive Director of the school’s Asia Pacific Human Resource Partnership. Prior to joining IMD, Dr. Black was an Associate Dean for Executive Development Programs and Professor of Management Practice in Global Leadership and Strategy at INSEAD.

INSEAD Business School

Dr. Black is Professor of Management Practice in Global Leadership and Strategy at INSEAD. He specializes in leadership, strategy, change, globalization, and stakeholder engagement. Stewart Black is co-directing the Leading Successful Change programme.

Across his career Dr. Black has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and North America. During that time he has worked with over of 10,000 executives, helping them develop themselves and their organizations. Much of this work has been with senior teams as they determine strategic direction, identify needed culture and leadership capabilities to implement their strategies, and aligning systems and processes to support the organizational transformation. In addition, he is frequently a keynote speaker at conferences and events on the topics of leading change, organizational culture, global leadership, innovation, and strategy.

He is the author or co-author of over 100 articles and cases. His research has been published in the most respected academic journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, as well as in practitioner oriented journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and Human Resource Management Journal , and he has published articles in and had his work featured in a variety of newspapers and magazines such as Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek. He is frequently sought out by and appeared in both print and live media.

He is the author or co-author of 18 books, including best selling textbooks, including Management: Meeting New Challenges, Organizational Behavior, and International Business Environments: Text and Cases, as well as books written for practicing executives, such as Failure to Globally Launch, It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations, The Global Leadership Challenge, and International Assignments: An Integration of Research and Practice.

Dr. Black received his undergraduate degree in psychology and English from Brigham Young University, where he graduated with honors. He earned his master degree from the business school at Brigham Young University, where he was on the dean’s list and graduated with distinction. After graduation, he worked for a Japanese consulting firm, where he eventually held the position of managing director. Dr. Black returned to the U.S. and received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Black started his career on the faculty at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. Later he was a professor of business administration at the University of Michigan and Executive Director of the school’s Asia Pacific Human Resource Partnership. Prior to rejoining INSEAD, Dr. Black was Professor of Global Leadership and Strategy at IMD. At INSEAD Dr. Black served for four years as Associate Dean of Executive Development Programs for the Americas, as the founder and program director of Learning to Lead and Leading for Results, and as the program director for a variety of company-specific programs including, Astra Zeneca, Ciba, Ernst & Young, Lexmark, HSBC, IFF, Jones Lang LaSalle, Manpower, National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia, Nissan, NYSE, Rio Tinto, Siam Cement, Shell, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Toshiba, Western Union among others.

PUBLICATIONS

  • BOOKS - Failure to Globally Launch: The Case for Aspiring Market Giants
  • BOOKS - The Global Leadership Challenge - Routledge
  • BOOK CHAPTERS - The Japanese Global Leadership Challenge: What it Means for the Rest of the World - Routledge
  • BOOKS - It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations - Wharton School Publishing
  • BOOKS - Management - Prentice Hall
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - A Cautionary Tale for Emerging Market Giants: How Leadership Failures in Corporate Japan Knocked Its Companies off the World Stage - Harvard Business Review
  • CASE STUDIES - Wal-Mart in China 2007: Future Prospects
  • BOOKS - It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations - Wharton School Publishing
  • BOOK CHAPTERS - The Mindset of Global Leaders: Inquisitiveness and Duality - JAI Press
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - You Can Take It with You: Individual Differences and Expatriate Effectiveness - Journal of Applied Psychology
  • BOOKS - Management - Prentice Hall
  • BOOKS - International Assignments: An Integration of Research and Practice - CRC Press
  • BOOK CHAPTERS - The Character of Global Leaders - Emerald Publishing Ltd.
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - The Japanese Global Leadership Challenge: What it Means for the Rest of the World - Asia Pacific Business Review
  • CASE STUDIES - Globalization of Komatsu: Digging Out of Trouble
  • BOOKS - Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun: Why Japanese Multinationals will Struggle in the Global Future - Palgrave Macmillan
  • BOOKS - Study Guide for Management - Prentice Hall
  • BOOKS - Management: Meeting New Challenges - FT Prentice Hall
  • BOOKS - Strategic International Assignments: An Integration of Research & Practice - CRC Press
  • BOOKS - Study Guide for Management - Prentice Hall
  • BOOKS - Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier - FT Prentice Hall
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - Seeing the Elephant: Human Resource Management Challenges in the Age of Globalization Outcomes: A Three Country Study - Organizational Dynamics
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - J. W. Marriott, Jr.: Living the Legacy - Academy of Management Executive
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - High Impact Training: Forging Leaders for the Global Frontier - Human Resource Management
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - Triumphs and Tragedies: Expectations and Commitments upon Repatriation - International Journal of Human Resources Management
  • BOOKS - Management: Meeting New Challenges - Prentice Hall
  • BOOKS - Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders - Routledge
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - The Right Way to Manage Expats - Harvard Business Review
  • BOOKS - So You're Coming Home - Global Business Publishers
  • BOOKS - Globalizing People Through International Assignments - Addison-Wesley
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES - Developing Leaders for the Global Frontier - Sloan Management Review

RESEARCH AREAS

Globalization, Competitive Strategy, Human Capital Leading Change

TEACHING AREAS

Executive Education, Competitive Strategy, Innovation, Organization Structure, Leading Change, Effective Influence, Human Capital, Managing Stakeholders, Global Leadership

INDUSTRY SECTORS

Automobiles, Chemicals, Energy, Oil and Gas, Electronic & Electrical Equipment

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