Christopher A. Bartlett

Christopher Bartlett "is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979). Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Business School, he was a marketing manager with Alcoa in Australia, a management consultant in McKinsey and Company's London office, and general manager at Baxter Laboratories' subsidiary company in France.

"Since joining the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1979, his interests have focused on the strategic and organizational challenges confronting managers in multinational corporations and on the organizational and managerial impact of transformational change. He served as faculty chair of the International Senior Management Program from 1990 through 1993, and as area head of the School's General Management Unit from 1995 to 1997. He was faculty chairman of HBS's international executive program, Program for Global Leadership, from 1998 to 2002.

"He has published eight books, including (co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal) Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution, reissued by Harvard Business School Press in a new edition in 1998 and named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential business books of the century; and The Individualized Corporation, published by HarperBusiness in 1997, winner of the Igor Ansoff Award for the best new work in strategic management and named one of the Best Business Books for the Millennium by Strategy + Business magazine. Both books have been translated into more than ten languages. He has authored or co-authored over 50 chapters or articles which have appeared in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies. He has also researched and written over 100 case studies and teaching notes."