Research and Faculty

Andrew Campbell

BA, MA, MBA

Andrew Campbell is a Director of the London based Ashridge Strategic Management Centre, which was formed in 1987 to research issues concerned with the management of multi-business companies. Andrew's work includes directing research projects, running management programmes and consulting to client companies. He is co-programme director of Group Level Strategy, Strategic Decisions and Making Successful Acquisitions.

Before joining Ashridge, Andrew was a Fellow of the Centre for Business Strategy at London Business School. Prior to that, he spent six years with McKinsey & Co in Los Angeles and London. Andrew has authored 10 books based on his research and has also published numerous articles including six with the Harvard Business Review. His latest, Think Again - Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happening to You, is co-authored with Sydney Finkelstein and Jo Whitehead (Harvard Business Press, 2009). Andrew did an MA at Edinburgh and an MBA at Harvard, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar and Harkness Fellow.

You can see Andrew Campbell's professional website for details of publications, research, speeches, consulting and teaching here:

http://www.andrewcampbell.150m.com

Andrew's latest publications

2010
Campbell, A. & Whitehead, J. (2010) How to test your decision-making instincts, McKinsey Quarterly, May Available from McKinsey http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/How_to_test_your_decision-making_instincts_2598
2009
Finkelstein, S., Whitehead, J. & Campbell, A. (2009) How inappropriate attachments can drive good leaders to make bad decisions, Organizational Dynamics (USA), Vol. 38, No. 2, April - June Full text is available from Emerald Management Review http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Review&contentId=1804223
2009
Finkelstein, S. Whitehead, J. & Campbell, A. (2009) The illusion of smart decision making: the past is not prologue, Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 30, Issue 6, pp. 36 - 43
2009
Download Think again - how good leaders can avoid bad decisions
Campbell, A. & Whitehead, J. (2009) Think again - how good leaders can avoid bad decisions, 360° The Ashridge Journal, Spring, pp. 6 - 11
2009
Campbell, A. (2009) Nothing beats old fashioned strategy, letter in the Financial Times, 8 April
2009
Campbell, A. & Sinclair, A. (2009) The crisis: Mobilizing boards for change, The McKinsey Quarterly, February To meet the challenges of the economic crisis, corporate boards must change the way they work. View the article on line at the McKinsey Quarterly web site.
Andrew Campbell
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