In recognition of his contribution to
the field of management, Professor Doz
is one of a small handful of scholars
to have been elected by their peers as
a Fellow of the Academy of Management,
of the Strategic Management Society,
and of the Academy of International
Business. Throughout his career,
Professor Doz has endeavored to act as
a valuable bridge between management
practice and academic research. He
began his working life in a corporate
context, working on international
helicopter development programs,
before moving into academia, first at
HEC in France, then at Harvard
Business School, and finally joining
the faculty of INSEAD in 1980. As an
acknowledgment of his bridging role,
Professor Doz was the first recipient
of the CK Prahalad Distinguished
Scholar-Practitioner Award, by the
Strategic Management Society in 2011.
The “red thread” in his research,
teaching, and consulting work over the
decades, is a concern with helping
companies reach good strategic
decisions when facing contradictory
demands: For example, local vs. global
pressures in multinational firms,
collaboration vs. competition between
alliances partners, dispersed
knowledge search vs. co-location in
fostering innovation, and strategic
commitment vs. agility in
fast-changing industries, or the
respective roles of boards and
management in corporate strategy.
Professor Doz has been at the
forefront of conceptualizing and
proposing a number of widely adopted
management practices over the years,
from his early work on reconciling
global integration and local
responsiveness in multinational
companies with CK Prahalad to his
conceptualization of the enablers of
Strategic Agility (his research
findings on this are summarized in the
book “Fast Strategy”, published in
2008 by Wharton Business Press and
co-authored with Mikko Kosonen), or
now, showing how corporate boards can
forge a stronger, more strategic,
value-adding role in a disciplined and
collaborative relationship with
management. Since “Fast Strategy”,
Professor Doz has authored several
other books, most recently: “Escaping
the Growth Curse” (published by
Berrett Koehler in mid-2024) and
“Ringtone: Exploring the Rise and Fall
of Nokia in Mobile Phones”, which won
the much-coveted George R. Terry
Award from the Academy of Management
“for best book on management” in 2018
(published by Oxford University Press
and co-authored with Keeley Wilson).
He is currently working on bringing CK
Prahalad’s pathfinding contributions
back to the limelight and assessing
their continued relevance looking
forward, to be reported in a book he
is co-editing, titled “Achieving More
with Less” to be published by
Cambridge University Press in 2025. He
is now also exploring the management
systems and leadership behaviors in
companies achieving sustained
outstanding performance, together with
Olli Lauren, an Egon Zehnder partner.
He is also the author of numerous
articles, both academic and
managerial. He has acted as an advisor
to the top management of many
companies, been a keynote speaker at
countless conferences and corporate
events, and taught programs at
business schools around the world
including Stanford GSB, Seoul National
University, and both Aoyama and Keio
in Japan. At INSEAD he created and,
for many years, directed a senior
executive seminar on strategic
alliances and has taught numerous
company-specific programs.