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.