Michael Jacobides

Michael G. Jacobides is the Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Strategy at London Business School, and the founder and lead advisor of Evolution Ltd, a firm that provides Advisory Services and Thought Leadership to the corporate world. His work, which has received the Sloan Foundation Award, has appeared in top academic journals such as SMJ, AMJ, AMR, OrgSci, and Industrial & Corporate Change, where he is a co-editor. He studies industry evolution, value migration, firm boundaries, and organization design. His recent work has shed light on the emergence and development of digital platforms and ecosystems and has looked at the strategic and policy issues this raises. In addition to this, he focuses his advisory work on digital strategy, AI, and ecosystems.

Jacobides has visited Harvard, NYU, Cambridge, Imperial, Bocconi, and Wharton, where he obtained his Ph.D. after studying at Athens, Cambridge, and Stanford. He is the Chief Expert Advisor on the Digital Economy at the Hellenic Competition Commission and an Academic Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group. He also serves as a Visiting Scholar at the New York Fed, working on the shifting business model of financial intermediation, and is a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. As an influential expert, he was selected as one of the Thinkers50, the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, in 2019 and 2023.

A frequent keynote speaker, Jacobides has given over 150 talks at corporate, industry, and broad-appeal events such as TEDx and the Global Drucker Forum. He writes for HBR, SMR and Forbes.com, and has appeared at the FT, CNN and BBC. He works on thought leadership with consultants such as McKinsey, IDEO, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Keystone and ECSi, and on strategy with corporates such as Haier, Huawei, MasMovil, Vodafone, Nokia, SAP, Enel, Santander, Helvetia, Zurich, CS, Airbus, DeBeers, Burberry, MerckSerono and the NHS. Additionally, he is a member of the advisory board of ventures like Grapevine, MyLocalToken, Velocia, and FoundersLane. He served on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum and has presented at the Davos Annual meetings.