Biography

Professor Witt teaches and researches international business at INSEAD and is an Associate in Research at Harvard's Reischauer Institute. He is primarily based in Singapore.

His research and teaching focuses on international differences in business and management, how these differences affect firms, and how firms should respond and adapt.

Professor Witt has published four major books, including The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems (2014, Oxford U. Press), The Future of Chinese Capitalism (2007, Oxford U. Press), and Changing Japanese Capitalism (2006, Cambridge U. Press). His academic research has appeared or is forthcoming in leading publications, including the Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Management and Organization Review, Socio-Economic Review, and Strategic Management Journal.

Professor Witt is former Editor-in-Chief of Asian Business & Management, a major academic journal on business and management in the Asian context, and serves as Senior Editor of the Management and Organization Review. Honors received include a prestigious Humboldt Fellowship.

At INSEAD, he is the Program Director of International Management in Asia Pacific, a senior executive open-enrolment program on succeeding in business in Asia.

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, Korea, Singapore, and the United States.

For research and teaching details and access to papers, please click on "Personal Website" on top of this page or visit his ResearchGate profile profile.

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