Thomas Hout

Professor Hout is a visiting professor from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is an international strategy consultant and adjunct senior lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts. He also teaches every year at the University of Hong Kong School of Business. At the Institute, he teaches courses in global business strategy, lean startup methods, and international business consulting.

Before teaching, he was a partner at The Boston Consulting Group for 22 years and lived and worked in Boston, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. He co-founded the firm’s Operations practice area. At the Institute, he supervises student international business plan projects. He has published eight articles in The Harvard Business Review on subjects ranging from global industrial competition to fast operating cycles to leading-edge management practices to industrial competition between China and the West. In addition, he has written over a dozen op-ed pieces in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on international business. He is co-author of two books, Japan’s Industrial Strategy and Competing Against Time, the latter of which was a business best seller in the 1990s with over 100,000 copies sold in eight languages.

He was a reserve officer in the US Navy and is a Vietnam Veteran.

Education

• MBA, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
• BA, Yale University, New Haven, United States

Tufts University Appointments

• Adjunct Lecturer
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2022 - present
• Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Sep 2016 - 30 Jun 2022
• Adjunct Lecturer
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 7 Sep 2010 - 31 Aug 2016