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Strategy
Michael A. Witt
Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +65 6799 5253
Campus: Singapore
Research Areas
International Business, National Business Systems/Varieties of Capitalism, East Asia (esp. China, Japan and Korea)
Teaching Areas
Strategies for Asia-Pacific, International Political Analysis, Blue Ocean Shift, Various Executive Education Modules
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 business, global strategy, and Blue Ocean Shift.
Professor Witt has published five major books, including Asian Business and Mangement (2019, Macmillan), 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 Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Management and Organization Review, Socio-Economic Review, and Business Ethics Quarterly.
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 Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies as well as Senior Editor of the Management and Organization Review. Honors received include a prestigious Humboldt Fellowship.
At INSEAD, he is the Program Director of a range of executive development programs, including International Management in Asia Pacific, a senior executive open-enrollment 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 up-to-date research and teaching details and access to papers, please click on "Personal Website" on top of this page or visit his ResearchGate profile profile.