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Peter Williamson

Visiting Professor of International Management
Fellow Commoner of Jesus College

BA (Macquarie Univ.), PhD (Harvard Univ.)

Professional Experience

Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the macro hedge fund manager Tactical Global Management (since 2001), Non-Executive Chairman of computer-based training company Imparta Ltd (since 1997) and of energy consultants Energy Edge Ltd (since 2004). Director of AIM-listed Chinese software company Geong International Ltd (since 2005). Professor Williamson was formerly with the Boston Consulting Group in London and Merrill Lynch Inc. in London, Singapore and New York. He serves on the editorial boards of European Management Journal, Business Strategy Review, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. Peter has acted as consultant on business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and international expansion to numerous companies, governments and international organisations throughout the Asia-Pacific region as well as in Europe and North America. He has experience in China since 1983, assisting numerous multinationals and joint ventures, and more recently, Chinese companies venturing abroad.

Previous Appointments

Prior to joining Judge Business School, Professor Williamson was ten years with the Asian Business and International Management faculty at INSEAD (1997-2007). Between 2003 and 2007 he was also Visiting Professor in Strategy at the Cheung Kong Business School in Beijing. He was Visiting Professor of Global Strategy at Harvard Business School (1993-1996) and Dean of MBA Programmes and Professor of |Strategic and International Management at London Business School (1987-1992).

Awards and Scholarships

• Sloan-Pricewaterhouse Coopers Award honouring those articles that have contributed to the enhancement of management practice, 2005
• Lloyds Tercentenary Fellow, 2001
• Fulbright Scholar, 1980-1984
• Frank R. Knox Memorial Fellow, 1980-1984

Research Interests

Globalisation and its implications for corporate strategy; strategies for success in China and the internationalisation of Chinese companies and their global impact, merger and acquisition strategy and post-merger integration; corporate ecosystems and the management of networks of strategic alliances; strategies for a carbon-constrained world.

Peter Williamson is a member of the International Business research group and the Strategy & Marketing teaching group.

Selected Publications

Markides, C.C. and Williamson, P.J. (1994) "Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance." Strategic Management Journal, 15(Special Issue, Summer): 149-165

Doz, Y., Santos, J. and Williamson, P. (2001) From global to metanational: how companies win in the knowledge economy. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. (Also translated into Korean, Italian, and Portuguese)

Santos, J., Doz, Y. and Williamson, P. (2004) "Is your innovation process global?" MIT Sloan Management Review, 45(4): 31-37

Williamson, P.J. (2004) Winning in Asia: strategies for the new millennium. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. (Also translated into Korean and Italian)

Zeng, M. and Williamson P.J. (2007) Dragons at your door: how Chinese cost innovation is disrupting the rules of global competition. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Williamson, P. and Zeng, M. (2009) "Value-for-money strategies for recessionary times." Harvard Business Review, 87(3): 66-74

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