Michael A. Witt is Affiliate Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fellow at INSEAD's Euro-Asia and Comparative Research Center, and Associate in Research at the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University. He is primarily based at INSEAD's Singapore Campus.

Professor Witt's area is International Business, especially in Asia and in the West. He studies how and why the ways of doing business vary by country and what these differences imply for international business and competition.

Recent research includes two books - "The Future of Chinese Capitalism" (2007, Oxford U. Press, with Gordon Redding) and "Changing Japanese Capitalism" (2006, Cambridge U. Press) - as well as articles in journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Asian Business & Management, and Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter.

Professor Witt holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University and an A.B. from Stanford University. He has lived in China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the United States.

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International Business; Varieties of Capitalism/Comparative Business Systems; Culture and Institutions; Political Economy; Asia, esp. China, Japan, South Korea; Western Europe.

Strategies for Asia-Pacific (MBA, EMBA); Comparing the World's Business Systems (MBA); Political Risk Assessment and Management (MBA); International Political Analysis (MBA, EMBA); executive education.