W. Chan Kim is The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair
Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD, France (the
world's second largest business school). Prior to joining INSEAD, he was a
professor at the University of Michigan Business School, USA. He has served as
a board member as well as an advisor for a number of multinational corporations
in Europe, the U.S. and Pacific Asia. He is an advisory member for the European
Union. He was born in Korea.
Kim is a fellow of the World Economic Forum. His Harvard Business Review
articles, co-authored with Renee Mauborgne, are worldwide bestsellers and have
sold over a half a million reprints. Their Value Innovation and Fair Process
articles were selected as among the best classic articles ever published in
Harvard Business Review. They have co-authored articles in The Wall Street
Journal, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The New York Times, The Financial
Times, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and numerous journals.
Kim has published numerous articles on strategy and managing the
multinational which can be found in: Academy of Management Journal, Management
Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative
Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, Harvard Business
Review, Sloan Management Review, and others. He is the co-author of the Blue
Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition
Irrelevant (Harvard Business School Press, 2005). Blue Ocean Strategy has
become an "International Bestseller", after reaching the "Wall Street Journal
Bestseller", "BusinessWeek Bestseller", and "National (American) Bestseller"
status. It is being published in 30 languages, breaking HBSP's historical
record of most foreign language translations ever achieved. Blue Ocean
Strategy won the Best Business Book of 2005 Prize at the Frankfurt Book
Fair.
It was also selected as the number one Strategy Book of 2005 by Strategy +
Business, Booz Allen & Hamilton's leading business magazine, and as a Top Ten
Business Book of 2005 by Amazon.com.
Kim is a winner of the Eldridge Haynes Prize, awarded by the Academy of
International Business and the Eldridge Haynes Memorial Trust of Business
International, for the best original paper in the field of international
business. He was selected for Thinkers 50, the global ranking of business
thinkers, and was named along with his colleague Renee Mauborgne, as "the
number one gurus of the future" by L'Expansion, one of France's leading
business magazines. The Sunday Times (London) called them "two of Europe's
brightest business thinkers. Kim and Mauborgne provide a sizeable challenge to
the way managers think about and practice strategy." The Observer called Kim
and Mauborgne, "the next big gurus to hit the business world."
Kim and Mauborgne co-founded the Value Innovation Network (VIN), a global
community of practice on the Value Innovation family of concepts that they
created. VIN embraces academics, consultants, executives, and government
officers. Kim is also a board member of the Value Innovation Action Tank
(VIAT), a non-profit organization, which has 15 Singapore government
ministeries and agencies as founding partners. VIAT was established in March
2004 to bring Value Innovation to the country's private, public and people
sectors. The Times (London) said, "the ultimate centre of excellence is one
which does not cost the business school any money, but which positions its
faculty as leaders in its field, creator of practical ideas, and direct
influencer of governments. In this, Singapore's Value Innovation Action Tank
(VIAT) is probably the benchmark. VIAT aims to convert Kim and Mauborgne's
ideas into reality by using a variety of frameworks, processes, tools and
educational programmes."
