Constantinos C. Markides is a Robert P. Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership at London Business School

London Business School

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 (London, UK), since 1990.

A native of Cyprus

Cyprus

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, he received a BA (Distinction) and MA in Economics from Boston University

Boston University

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, MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

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Constantinos worked as a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School and has completed research and published on the topics of international competitiveness, corporate restructuring, refocusing and international acquisitions (in journals such as the Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review

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, MIT Sloan Management Review

MIT Sloan Management Review

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, Directors & Boards, Long range planning

Long range planning

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, British Journal of Management

British Journal of Management

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, Journal of International Business Studies

Journal of International Business Studies

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, Strategic Management Journal and the Academy of Management Journal

Academy of Management Journal

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He is on the Editorial Board of the Strategic Management Journal and the MIT Sloan Management Review

MIT Sloan Management Review

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. Constantinos was also a Fellow of the World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum

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 in Davos

Davos

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Selected works

• 1995. Diversification, Refocusing and Economic Performance. MIT Press.
• 2000. All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy. Harvard Business School Press. ISBN 978-0-87584-833-4
• 2005 (with Paul Geroski
  Paul Geroski
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  ). Fast second
  Fast second
  Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets is a book written by Paul Geroski and Constantinos Markides and published by Jossey-Bass in 2005....
  
  : How smart companies bypass radical innovation to enter and conquer new markets. Jossey-Bass. ISBN 978-0-7879-7154-0