This blog is published by Philippe Silberzahn and Milo Jones.
Philippe Silberzahn
Philippe Silberzahn is Associate Professor at EMLYON Business School, France. He is also a Research Fellow at the Management Research Center (CRG) of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, where he received his PhD.
His research interests lie at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He studies how businesses deal with radical uncertainty. He explores the role and actions of entrepreneurs and innovators in this process of markets and organization creation, and how large organizations manage strategic surprises and disruptions.
He has over twenty years of industry experience as an entrepreneur and CEO, having participated in the creation or acquisition of four high technology firms, and as an international consultant. From 2004 till 2009, he was a Research Associate at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He was previously a senior strategy consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in Singapore.
He holds a MSc in Computer Science, a MS in Management from the Sorbonne University, and an MBA from the London Business School.
Milo Jones
Milo Jones is a Co-founder and Principal of Insight Advisory Partners and President of Inveniam Strategy. He is also a Visiting Professor at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, an Adjunct Professor at EMLYON Business School in Lyon, France, and a non-Executive Director of two private firms.
His research interests are non-market strategy, intelligence analysis, geopolitics, and the “The Great Divergence” (i.e. the economic and technological take-off of Europe that became apparent in the early 19th Century). He is a participant in the Forecasting World Events Project, sponsored by the US ODNI‘s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).
At IE, Milo teaches “The Multinational Firm and Geostrategy” for Masters in Management students, “Geopolitics” and “Investing in Emerging Markets” for Masters in Advanced Finance students, and “Business, Government and Society” (a non-market strategy course) for MBA students. He is the recipient for several awards from IE for teaching excellence.
In 2009, Milo received PhD from the University of Kent in Brussels. His dissertation, Constructing Cassandra: the Social Construction of Strategic Surprise at the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-2001, focused on the role that the Agency’s identity and internal culture played in four strategic surprises: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the collapse of the USSR, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Milo also holds an MA (with distinction) in International Relations from Kent, an MBA from London Business School, and a BA in Art History from Northwestern University. In 2003, he became a fellow of the 21st Century Trust/Salzburg Global Seminar, and he is also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
In the past, Milo worked as a Senior Manager in Organizational Strategy and Change at Accenture in London, as a broker at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York, and served four years as an officer in the US Marine Corps.
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