George Yip

Leading Authority on Global Strategy, Marketing & Internationalization; Managing Global Customers; Governance and Strategy Focusing on Asia-Pacific

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George Yip Biography

George Yip is one of the world's leading authorities on global strategy and marketing, managing global customers, internationalization, and multinational strategies for the Asia-Pacific region. His current research concerns strategic transformation, corporate governance and global strategy, international competitiveness, and global customers.

He is currently Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University, a top-ranked international business school renowned for its ground-breaking research in sustainable business practice and for the development of leaders in global business & consistently ranked amongst the top 10 business schools in Europe.

Formerly Vice President and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini Consulting, UK., he managed the research and innovation process to develop the intellectual capital of the company. Capgemini is a 7 billion euro global company, headquartered in France, active in consulting, technology, and outsourcing. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, which is the UK's research initiative on management.

Yip has talked to top management groups and forums all over the world, including for ABN Amro, American Express, Arab-Malaysian Bank, Arch Coal, Arup, Bank of America, BASF, Beiersdorf, Bertelsmann, Brown-Forman, Carl Zeiss, Cleanaway, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Bank, Du Pont, Ernst & Young, IBM, Invensys, J-Phone (Japan), McKinsey, KPMG, Massachusetts Financial Services, Milliken, National Australia Bank, Nestlé, Nissan, Nokia, Philips, Peoplesoft, Pitney Bowes, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Ralston-Purina, San Miguel, SAP, Sara Lee, Saudi Basic Industries Company, Singapore Airlines, Sony, Spirent, and ST Microelectronics; and for conferences held by Business Week, Far Eastern Economic Review, Forbes, Fortune, and the World Economic Forum. He has won both "best teaching" and "best research" awards.

He was previously Professor of Strategic and International Management and Associate Dean at London Business School, and the Chair of Marketing and Strategy at Cambridge University, and has also held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and UCLA, and visiting positions at China-Europe International Business School, Georgetown University, Stanford Business School, and Templeton College-Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.

Yip has over ten years of full-time business experience in international business, marketing, and strategy, working in the United States and the United Kingdom. This experience includes product management with Unilever; account management with Lintas, one of the world's largest advertising agencies; and business manager with Data Resources, Inc. He was the senior manager of Price Waterhouse's strategic management consulting services in the Eastern United States, and also a Senior Associate with The MAC Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

His book, Total Global Strategy: Managing for Worldwide Competitive Advantage (Prentice Hall, 1992; 1995) was selected as one of the 30 best business books of 1992. Other books include Asian Advantage: Key Strategies for Winning in the Asia-Pacific Region (Addison Wesley/Perseus Books, 1998 and updated edition 2000), Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe (Macmillan Business 2000), and Barriers to Entry: A Corporate Strategy Perspective. His latest book is Managing Global Customers (Oxford University Press 2007).

He has published articles on strategy and marketing in Business Horizons, Business & Strategy, Business Strategy Review, California Management Review, Chief Executive, Columbia Journal of World Business, Global Executive, Harvard Business Review, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Strategy, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, Planning Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and The International Executive. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Cambridge University; and an MBA and doctorate from Harvard Business School. A native of Asia, he is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and of the United States.

 

Program Topics

 

Total Global Strategy: Managing for Worldwide Competitive Advantage 

 

Asian Advantage: Key Strategies for Winning in the Asia-Pacific Region 

 

Managing Global Customers

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/08/2024.

George Yip Speaking Topics

  • Internationalization Strategies from Emerging or Smaller Economies

  • Global Strategy

  • Innovation in a Converging World

  • Strategic Transformation

  • Managing Global Customers

  • Going Global

George Yip Videos

  • CRF 5th International Conference 2013 - keynote speaker George Yip, CEIBS
  • Prof. George Yip on Strategic Transformation - YouTube

George Yip Books

  • Strategic Transformation: Changing While Winning
    Strategic Transformation: Changing While Winning
  • Total Global Strategy (3rd Edition)
    Total Global Strategy (3rd Edition)
  • Managing Global Customers: An Integrated Approach
    Managing Global Customers: An Integrated Approach
  • The Future of the Multinational Company
    The Future of the Multinational Company

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George Yip is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Internationalization Strategies from Emerging or Smaller Economies, Global Strategy, Innovation in a Converging World, Strategic Transformation, Managing Global Customers and Going Global. The estimated speaking fee range to book George Yip for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. George Yip generally travels from Netherlands and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Geoffrey Moore, Geoff Colvin, Todd Buchholz, Gary Hamel and Anil Gupta. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling George Yip for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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