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John Mawdsley

Associate Professor
Strategy and Business Policy

John Mawdsley is Associate Professor in the Strategy and Business Policy Department at HEC Paris. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He examines the different ways professional service firms create and capture value from their relationships with clients and from their workforce.

John’s research offers new explanations for how clients affect a firm’s strategic objectives, for example, business scope and rate of firm growth, as well as how clients influence collaboration between professionals and firm diversity strategies. His work guides managers on how and when they can most effectively leverage their client relationships to achieve the firm’s strategic goals.

A secondary area of his research provides insights into the organizational impacts of managers’ human capital and the movement of professional workers across firms.  For example, this research sheds light on how managers’ knowledge and skills affect their strategic foresight in different ways, and how hiring star professionals may have both positive and negative impacts on the teams that they join.

John teaches courses on strategy in professional services, strategic problem-solving, and corporate strategy at the master's, MBA, and executive levels. He is also the Academic Director of HEC’s Master in Strategic Management.

His research has been funded by the HEC Foundation and is published in leading academic journals as well as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and The Conversation.

 

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