Richard D’Aveni is Professor of Strategic Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He has been listed as one of the Thinkers 50 in 2007 and 2009, a listing of the top management thinkers in the world, published by the Times of London, CNN.com, and the Times of India. In addition, He was named one of the 7 most influential strategic theorists in the world by the Corporate Executive Board. D’Aveni has received many other awards for his work, including the prestigious AT Kearney Award and he was named a Fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The professor has published four books prior to his most recent book Beating the Commodity Trap, including the international best seller, Hypercompetition. He has also published articles In Harvard Business Review, MIT/Sloan Management Review, The Financial Times of London, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as in several top academic journals.

D’Aveni has been the private sounding board and advisor to several Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of two G-7 countries, and numerous other CEOs in Europe and the USA. He has worked with several Forbes 100 wealthiest families, in India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the USA. He is also a keynote speaker on strategy issues for corporate events and conferences all over the world.

He holds a PhD from Columbia University and received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and is also an inactive attorney and CPA.

One of his major interests is helping others to start English speaking MBA or executive programs overseas, including places such as India, Israel, Mexico, Japan, and Viet Nam. D’Aveni enjoys his two homes, one in the mountains of New Hampshire, and the other, is a renovated 1830’s palace in the historic center of St. Petersburg Russia only blocks away from the Hermitage.