Research and Faculty

Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle is currently a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School and a director and owner of the Scandinavian center for Management Development (SMD) that represents Ashridge in Sweden, and the Swedish Management Group, one of the leading providers of business education in Scandinavia.

Jonas is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus and has attained tremendous media coverage throughout the world. In March 2004, he appeared on CNN's program "Global Office" for a long interview on his ideas. Dr. Ridderstråle has also been featured in Fortune, Fast Company, Time Magazine, Financial Times, Stern, Paris Match, and many other publications. The 2005 Thinkers 50, the bi-annual global ranking of management thinkers, ranked him (and his former colleague Kjell A. Nordström) at number nine internationally and as the leading European business guru.

His research focuses on strategic innovation, new organizational models and leadership styles in the information age and has been published in leading academic journals, including Business Strategy Review, Organization Science and Journal of International Business Studies. Jonas contributed to the best-selling Financial Times Handbook of Management and Business: The Ultimate Resource. He is on the editorial board of The Capstone Business Encyclopedia.

Dr. Ridderstråle holds an MBA and a PhD in international business and has been recognized as Sweden’s outstanding young academic of the year. Formerly, he was an assistant professor at the Stockholm School of Economics where he was responsible for the school’s Advanced Management Program - a five week top-management program that attracts the elite of Scandinavian executives. He has acted and still acts as an advisor and consultant to a number of multinational corporations and has also served on the board of several companies. Jonas’ uncompromising, imaginative and decidedly fresh take on contemporary business life has made him one of the world’s most sought after and appreciated speakers.

Jonas’ latest book Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind is a globally celebrated manifesto for how to make it in the new world of commerce. His previous book, Funky Business: Talent makes capital dance quickly became an international bestseller, selling more than 300.000 copies, and is translated into 30 languages. The book was recently ranked at number 16 in a Bloomsbury survey of the best business book of all time. Both books are co-authored with Nordström.