Speakers and Chairs Bios
- Alex Adamopoulos
- Vanessa Gamboa Adams
- Philip Aminoff
- Sara Armbruster
- Gianpaolo Barozzi
- Julian Birkinshaw
- Tim Brown
- Curtis Carlson
- Niclas Carlsson
- Yogesh Chauhan
- Laurent Choain
- Clayton Christensen
- Mary Beth Christie
- Judith Clegg
- Sarah Cliffe
- Nicolas Colin
- Peter Day
- Steve Denning
- Tamara J. Erickson
- Mark Esposito
- Bill Fischer
- Debra France
- Maëlle Gavet
- Sarah Green Carmichael
- Robert Grüneis
- James Guild
- Rita Gunther McGrath
- Anil K. Gupta
- Prabhu Guptara
- John Hagel III
- Guy Halfteck
- Gary Hamel
- Boma Harahap
- Michael Harte
- Lisa Hershman
- Andrew Hill
- Tawfik Jelassi
- Eyal Kaplan
- Annie Koh
- Angelica Kohlmann
- Philip Kotler
- Ralf Köster
- Bill Liao
- Andreas Ludwig
- Christian Lüdtke
- Isabella Mader
- Fredmund Malik
- Roger L. Martin
- Mariana Mazzucato
- Milena Milicevic
- Thanigai Muthusamy
- Annu Nieminen
- Efosa Ojomo
- Sally Osberg
- Alexander Osterwalder
- Sarah O`Connor
- Will Peachey
- Magnus Penker
- Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Joseph Pistrui
- Deepa Prahalad
- Rosemarie Ryan
- Gisbert Rühl
- Philippe Silberzahn
- Hermann Simon
- Richard Straub
- Nicolai Strøm-Olsen
- Joakim Sundén
- Rob van Leen
- Rajeev Vasudeva
- Haiyan Wang
- Adrian Wooldridge
- Rickard Zetterberg
Professor of Innovation Management
at IMD
Biography
Bill Fischer is a Professor of Innovation Management at IMD. He co-founded and co-directs the IMD program on Driving Strategic Innovation, in cooperation with the Sloan School of Management at MIT and also authors a regular column for Forbes.com entitled “The Ideas Business,” (blogs.forbes.com/billfischer).
An engineer by training, American by citizenship, Bill has lived much of his life in Asia and Europe. He held a full-professorship and endowed chair on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1976-1998), first moved to China in 1980, and later became the
President of the China Europe International Business School [CEIBS], in Shanghai (1997-1999). He has been awarded the Silver Magnolia award, Shanghai’s highest award for foreigners contributing to the city’s development, in 1999.
He first joined IMD in 1990, and was part of the IMD team that developed the Managerial Deep Dive process for improved innovation conversations.
His most recent books include: Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier has Changed the Way that Big Companies Transform [with Umberto Lago & Fang Liu], The Idea Hunter (2011) and Virtuoso Teams (2005) [both coauthored with Andy Boynton]. All of these books address issues of innovation and talent development and expression in a variety of organizational settings.
In 2011, Bill was named by The Independent [U.K.] as one of the most influential tweeters on business issues; and by InnovationExcellence.com as one of the “Top 50 Innovation Tweeters of 2012”, as well as one of InnovationManagement.com's 40 top innovation bloggers in 2012. In 2013, he was included among “The Top 50 Business School Professors on Twitter,” and Innovation Excellence’s “Top 50 Innovation Twitter Sharers of 2013”. Also, in 2013, Reinventing Giants, which addresses business model and corporate culture reinvention in a mature, commodity business, has been short-listed for Thinkers50 “book of the year” award.