Max Boisot
Max sadly passed away on the 7th September 2011. We were privileged to work with Max over a number of years, and continue to be inspired by the legacy of his work.
Max Boisot was a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Birmingham, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Sol Snider Center, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He held an MSc in Management from M.I.T. as well as a Doctorate in Technology Transfer from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London University. From 1984 to 1989 he was Dean and Director of the China-EC Management program, the first MBA programme to be run in the People's Republic of China in Beijing. The program has today evolved into the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. In 1994 he set up the Euro-Arab Management School in Granada, Spain for the EU Commission.
He carried out consultancy and training assignments for a number of multi-national firms – most recently BP Exploration, GEC-Alsthom, Thomson CFS, UBS - in the field of international management and technology strategy. His research in association with the Wharton Business School involved building a simulation model of knowledge flows within and between organisations.
In addition to his China experience, Max taught in Japan, the US, Hong Kong, South Africa, the Middle East, Russia and France. He was the author of Information Space: a framework for analyzing learning in organizations, institutions and cultures (1995, Routledge), Knowledge Assets: securing competitive advantage in the information economy (1998, Oxford University Press), which was awarded the Ansoff Prize for Strategy in 2000, and Explorations in Information-Space; Knowledge, Actors and Firms (2007, Oxford University Press). He also published numerous research articles.
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