George Yip is Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
Professor Yip holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Cambridge University; and an MBA and doctorate from Harvard Business School. A native of Asia, he is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and of the United States.
Before joining RSM, Professor Yip was Vice President and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini Consulting, an 8 billion euro global company active in consulting, technology, and outsourcing, where he managed the research and innovation process to develop thought-leadership for the company.
During this time he was on leave of absence as Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School. He was previously the Chair of Marketing and Strategy at Cambridge University, and has held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and UCLA, and visiting positions at China-Europe International Business School, Georgetown University, Stanford Business School, and Templeton College-Oxford.
Professor Yip has twelve years of full-time business experience in international business, marketing, and strategy, working in the United States and the United Kingdom. This experience includes product management with Unilever; account management with Lintas, one of the world's largest advertising agencies; and senior management of Price Waterhouse's strategic management consulting services in the Eastern United States.
Professor Yip is a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, which is the UK’s research initiative on management (www.aimresearch.org), and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
He is one of the world's leading authorities on global strategy and marketing, managing global customers, and internationalisation. His current research concerns management innovation, strategic transformation, international competitiveness, and global customers.
Professor Yip has talked to top management groups and forums all over the world, including for ABN Amro, American Express, Arab-Malaysian Bank, Arch Coal, Arup, Bank of America, BASF, Beiersdorf, Bertelsmann, Brown-Forman, Carl Zeiss, Cleanaway, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Bank, Du Pont, Ernst & Young, IBM, Invensys, J-Phone (Japan), McKinsey, KPMG, Massachusetts Financial Services, Milliken, National Australia Bank, Nestlé, Nissan, Nokia, Philips, Peoplesoft, Pitney Bowes, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Ralston-Purina, San Miguel, SAP, Sara Lee, Saudi Basic Industries Company, Singapore Airlines, Sony, Spirent, and ST Microelectronics; and for conferences held by Business Week, Far Eastern Economic Review, Forbes, Fortune, and the World Economic Forum. He has won both “best teaching” and “best research” awards.
His latest book is
Managing Global Customers (Oxford University Press, 2007). An earlier book,
Total Global Strategy: Managing for Worldwide Competitive Advantage (Prentice Hall, 1992; 1995) was selected as one of the 30 best business books of 1992; has been published in ten languages, and updated as
Total Global Strategy II (2003). Other books include
Asian Advantage: Key Strategies for Winning in the Asia-Pacific Region (Addison Wesley/Perseus Books, 1998 and updated edition 2000) and
Strategies for Central and Eastern Europe (Macmillan Business, 2000), and
Barriers to Entry: A Corporate Strategy Perspective. He has published articles on strategy and marketing in
Business Horizons, Business & Strategy, Business Strategy Review, California Management Review, Chief Executive, Columbia Journal of World Business, Global Executive, Harvard Business Review, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Strategy, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, Long Range Planning, Management International Review, Planning Review, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and
The International Executive.
