As part of our International Competitiveness Seminar, on October 24^th the FIA International and Executive MBAs received  Dr. Christopher Carr,  for a session on Corporate Strategy.

Chris Carr is Professor of Corporate Strategy, University of Edinburgh, U.K., where he has taught for the last 10 years, following 9 years leading Strategy at Manchester Business School. He also teaches a specialist program on Global Strategy at Edinburgh and also at Moscow State University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He has taught at Warwick, Buckingham and Bath Universities in the U.K.; and in India, China, Turkey, Italy and in Germany where he held a visiting Professorship at Witten Herdecke University in 1998/1999. He has also spent 6 months working with researchers at HEC in Paris and the University of Carlos the Third in Madrid.

Previously Chris worked for over ten years with British Aerospace followed by GKN, where he helped taking the company global building plants in the U.S.A., followed by over a year working in the Middle East. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and also a Chartered Management Accountant. Since 1980, he has authored over fifty journal articles and conference papers on global strategy, strategic investment decisions and comparative approaches worldwide. Journal articles include the Strategic Management Journal, Management International Review, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning and Management Accounting Review. He has also published two books on Britain’s Competitiveness (1990) and on Strategic Investment Decisions in Britain and Germany (1994).

Over the past 30 years he has carried out research on global strategy, comparing approaches to strategic decisions in some 300 companies in 21 countries. Each company has generally provided a single, deep decision case study, detailing the approach to strategic planning, the financial analysis and people decision-making aspects, paying particular attention to cultural differences internationally.

Chris has an M.A. in both Engineering and Economics from the University of Cambridge, a Diploma in Management Studies, and a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick. He was an invited scholar at Harvard Business School in 2006, spending five months working with their Strategy Group.

Chris.Carr@ed.ac.uk