Professor of Management and Organization
Hughes M. and Katherine G. Blake Endowed Professor in Business Administration
PhD, University of Manchester 1983
BS, University of Manchester 1979
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Michael G. Foster School of Business |
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313 Mackenzie Hall
chill@u.washington.edu
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Management and Organization Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200 |
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Specialties
Strategy, international business, micro-economics
Positions Held
At the University of Washington since 1988
Assistant professor, Michigan State University (1986-88)
Visiting professor, Texas A&M (1985-86)
Lecturer, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1983-86)
Selected Publications
- International Business: Competing in the Global Market Place, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005.
- Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach, with G.R. Jones, Sixth Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
- "The performance of incumbent firms in the face of radical technological change," with F.T. Rothaermel, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2003, pp 257-277.
- "Tacit knowledge as a source of competitive advantage in the NBA," with S. Berman and J. Down, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2002, pp. 13-32.
Current Research
Strategy in industries best by rapid technological change
Strategy making in the face of uncertainty and complexity
Honors and Awards
Charles E. Summer Outstanding Teaching Award (2008)
MBA Core Professor of the Quarter for Autumn (2007)
TMMBA Excellence in Teaching Award (2003, 2006, 2007, 2008)
MBA Elective Professor of the Quarter for Autumn (2003)
Dean's Entrepreneurship Research Award (1999)
Wells Fargo Faculty Award (1997)
EMBA Excellence in Teaching Award (1994-97, 2007)
Burlington Northern Foundation Achievement Award for Scholarship (1990)
Selected Consulting Experience
Consulting clients have included
- ATL (now part of Philips Medical Systems)
- Boeing
- B.F. Goodrich
- Microsoft
- Seattle City Light
- Thompson Financial Services
- WRQ
Academic Service
Consulting editor of the Academy of Management Review (1993-96).
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