Richard D'Aveni

Richard A. D'Aveni is Professor of Strategic Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

He is the author of numerous articles in Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, and the MIT Sloan Management Review, as well as the best selling^{[citation needed]} book Hyper-competition, which is available in 11 languages. His most recent book, Beating the Commodity Trap: How to Maximize Your Competitive Position and Increase Your Pricing Power, was released in early 2010. He also wrote Strategic Supremacy, currently available in 4 languages. His writings are credited^{[citation needed]} with creating a new paradigm in the field of strategic management based on temporary advantages employing principles of rapid and aggressive maneuvering and innovation rather than on defensive barriers to entry and power over buyers and suppliers.

• About Hypercompetition: "A modern-day analogue to The Art of War, the ancient Chinese classic that is the Bible of many corporate strategists. -- Fortune^{[citation needed]}

• About Strategic Supremacy: “Timely, provocative and clear.”--Harvard Business Review^{[citation needed]}

• About Beating the Commodity Trap: Beating the Commodity Trap offers an insightful look at how companies can protect and differentiate their iconic brands in a rapidly changing global marketplace where the risks of commoditization and low-price competition are rampant. - William R. Johnson, Chairman, President and CEO, H.J. Heinz Company^{[citation needed]}

In 2007 and 2009. Professor D’Aveni was named to the Thinkers 50 by The Times, CNN, Forbes, and The Times of India, a ranking of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world.^{[citation needed]} He was ranked #26 overall, and among the top ten strategic thinkers listed.^{[citation needed]} He is winner of the prestigious A. T. Kearney Award for his research on why, and how, large firms fail^{[citation needed]}, and he has been a World Economic Forum Fellow attending the annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland.^{[citation needed]} WirtschaftsWoche, Germany’s Business Week, named Professor D’Aveni as one of America’s strategy professors most likely to influence the future of strategic thinking. And The Corporate Strategy Board in Washington, D.C. named him one of the seven most influential living strategic thinkers. On January 28, 2010, D'Aveni was Interviewed on Bloomberg TV to explain his idea of how a company can fall into a "commodity trap".

External links

• Richard D'Aveni's Tuck Faculty Profile
• Thinkers 50 Profile
• Financial Times Review of Beating the Commodity Trap
• A Bloomberg TV interview with D'Aveni
• D'Aveni on Tuck and the Changing Face of Strategy
• D'Aveni's Business Educators Member Profile