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Richard A. D'Aveni

Professor of Strategic Management

E-Mail: richard.a.d'aveni@tuck.dartmouth.edu Phone: 603-646-2921

AB, Cornell University, 1975; JD, Suffolk University, 1979; MBA, Boston University, 1979; PhD, Columbia University, 1987; CPA, Massachusetts

Areas of expertise

Business, corporate, and global strategy; organizational design and top management teams

Current research topics

Strategies for dealing with commoditization, price-benefit product positioning

Selected Publications

Hypercompetition, The Free Press, 1994; "New Organizational Forms and Strategies for Managing in Hypercompetitive Environments," Organization Science, 1999; Strategic Supremacy, The Free Press, 2001; "The Empire Strikes Back: Counter-Revolutionary Strategies for Industry Leaders," Harvard Business Review, November 2002; "Corporate Spheres of Influence," MIT Sloan Management Review, 45(4), 2004; with D. Ravenscraft and P. Anderson, "From Corporate Strategy to Business-Level Advantage: Relatedness as Resource Congruence," Managerial and Decision Economics, 25(6-7), 2004; "Mapping Your Competitive Position," Harvard Business Review, November 2007; Beating the Commodity Trap: Improving Your Competitive Position and Pricing Power, Harvard Business School Press, 2010

Working Papers

With K. Pauwels, "The Dynamics of Price-Quality Competition: Oligopolistic, Resource-Based, or Hypercompetition?"

Awards

Top 50 Management Thinkers in the World and Top 10 Strategy Thinkers (CNN, The Times, The Times of India); 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, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Honorable Mention, Academy of Management Hall of Fame; Nominee, SMS McKinsey Best Paper, Strategic Management Society, 2004

Professional Activities

Academic positions: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986–88; Tuck School of Business, 1988–present

Nonacademic positions: Legislative staff, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1975–77; Project Manager, Governor’s Staff, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1977–78; Lawyer/CPA, Coopers & Lybrand, 1979–82; Special Consultant, Federal Trade Commission, 1991–98

Board memberships: Board of Scholars, Chief Executive Leadership Institute at Yale University

Editorial positions: Editorial Boards, Academy of Management Journal, 1991–96; Administrative Science Quarterly, 1995–96; Organization Science, 1992–2002; Strategic Management Journal, 1994–95 and 2008 to present