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Robert (Bob) Kennedy
Executive Director of WDI and Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D. Bus Econ, Harvard University
MSM (MBA), Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
BA, Economics, Stanford University
BA, Pol Sci, Stanford University
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Robert (Bob) Kennedy is Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute (WDI), a non-profit research and educational institute that focuses on business and policy issues in emerging market economies.
He also serves as the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration at Michigan’s Ross School of Business, where he teaches corporate strategy and international business courses in the MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs.
Kennedy is a well-known scholar, speaker, and educator. His research focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing businesses in developing countries and has been widely published in leading economics and strategy journals. He has authored more than 120 articles, chapters, notes, case studies, and computer exercises on emerging market issues. From 2002-2011, his teaching materials were used at every one of Business Week’s top 25 U.S. business schools.
Kennedy recently completed a managerial book on offshoring (The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity) for FT Press which was released in January 2009. The book has been published in English, Swedish, Croatian, Mandarin, and in a special India edition.
He sits on the governing and/or advisory boards of numerous organizations active in the economic development sector, including the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), the Global Business School Network (GBSN), the India-based private equity firm ChrysCapital, the “Development Through Enterprise” website NextBillion.net, the University of Michigan’s Center for Global Health, and the Ross School’s Global Initiative.
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Working Papers
Business Administration Web Site
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