Howard Thomas
Former Dean and LKCSB Distinguished Professor of Strategic Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business Director of the Academic Strategy and Consulting Unit Singapore Management University

Based on recent research, and books published by Professor Thomas, the talk first reviews the unparalled growth and evolution of management education over the last 50 years. It then provides a sense of the ongoing challenges, potential blind spots and the new realities of the increasingly competitive environment. It argues for the development of new business models, adapted to the context of different geographical regions, to address the dynamic environments and range of scenarios facing management education in the future.

Howard Thomas

Author of over 30 books and more than 200 articles on topics in strategic management, Howard Thomas is a highly-cited scholar in his field in the ISI Web Science listing and serves on the editorial board of several journals including Long Range Planning.
He was previously Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Strategic Management, University of Warwick from 2000-2010, and Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration and James F. Towey Distinguished Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Illinois-Champaign, USA from 1991-2000. Prior to this, he held posts as Foundation Professor of Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney, as Director of the Doctoral Program at London Business School, and visiting and permanent posts at institutions such as the Sloan School of Management, MIT, and Kellogg School, Northwestern University.
He was past President of the US Strategic Management Society, past Chair of the Board of the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), and a Fellow of both the Academy of Management in the US and the British Academy of Management in the UK; Fellow of the Strategic Management Society US (and current Dean of Fellows) and Honorary Life Member and former Vice-President of European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
He also serves as a board member of Global Foundation for Management Education GFME (Chair) and Vice-Chair, Chair of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International from
2008-2010 where he is currently Past Chair.