Education

AB, Cornell University, 1975; JD, Suffolk University, 1979; MBA, Boston University, 1979; PhD, Columbia University, 1987; CPA, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. At Tuck since 1988.

Areas of Expertise

Business policy and strategy, with an emphasis on teaching firms how to become more innovative and "hypercompetitive;" industry and competitive analysis; the dynamics of jockeying for competitive advantage in rapidly changing environments; and global strategy and implementation.

Consulting/ Executive Education

Professor D'Aveni is a keynote speaker, consultant, CEO coach, informal interim CEO, strategic advisor, and off-site strategic decision process facilitator for companies in the U.S. and Europe at the divisional and CEO level. His clients have included Aetna, AGFA, American Tire Distributors, Bayer, BJ's Wholesale Club, Cadbury Schweppes, Cargill, Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney, Corning, Delphi, Dun & Bradstreet, Fininvest Italia, GM, GE, Instinet (Reuters), John Deere, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, PepsiCo, Philips Electronics, Pfizer, Rhodia, SAP, and Schering-Plough. He has been a keynote speaker at The Conference Board CEO Forum, The World Economic Forum, Young President's Organization, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, CIO Forum, and the Management Centre Europe, as well as numerous other professional societies and corporate events throughout the world. He has also been a speaker at the French Senate.

Awards

Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum; A.T. Kearney Award; Richard D. Irwin Foundation Fellowship; Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center Fellow, Wharton School; Runner-up for Outstanding Teaching Award, UNC at Chapel Hill; Honorable Mention for number of articles published in academic journals, Academy of Management Hall of Fame. Professor D'Aveni's book Hypercompetition has been referred to by Fortune as "a modern-day analogue to The Art of War."

Publications

Professor D'Aveni is the author of articles in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review, as well as the best-selling book Hypercompetition (Simon & Schuster, The Free Press Division, 1994), which is available in 11 languages. He is also the author of Strategic Supremacy (Simon & Schuster, The Free Press Division, 2001), which is available in four languages

Background

Professor D'Aveni is coordinator of the of the strategy and technology group at the Tuck School. Prior to joining the faculty, he was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before entering academia, he was a lawyer/CPA at Coopers & Lybrand. Professor D'Aveni has also served as a special consultant to the Federal Trade Commission since 1991.