Yves Doz is the Dean of Executive Education and the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD. He was Associate Dean for Research and Development for five years (1990-1995). From 1990-1994 he held the John H. Loudon Chair in International Management. Professor Doz was Director of the Management of Technology and Innovation programme at INSEAD, a multi-disciplinary effort involving about 20 faculty members and researchers which ran from 1987 to 1994. He spent the 1995/1996 academic year at Stanford University, California, as a Visiting Professor. Yves Doz received his Doctoral degree from Harvard University and is a graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Jouy-en-Josas, France). From 1976-79 he was Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School.
His research on the strategy of multinational companies, examining specifically high-technology industries, led to numerous publications, including three books: Government Control and Multinational Management (1979), Strategic Management in Multinational Companies (1986) and (with C.K. Prahalad) The Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision (1987).
His book on strategic alliances (with Gary Hamel) Alliance Advantage has been published in July 1998. One more book, co-authored with Jose Santos and Peter Williamson, two INSEAD colleagues, titled From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy (Harvard Business School Press 2001) shows how companies can mobilize dispersed knowledge to learn from the world. His research on the power systems and telecommunications equipment industries won the A. T. Kearney Academy of Management Award.
Professor Doz currently carries out research on strategic partnerships and technological cooperation between companies, on global competition in the knowledge economy, and on the competitive revitalization of international companies.
His business experience includes work on multinational aircraft programmes, he has also consulted for many major multinational corporations and taught in their internal development programmes. His recent assignments have included assisting the restructuring of the top management of a leading European diversified multinational, advising multinationals on the development of European strategies for various businesses, and designing and implementing competitive revitalization programmes.
The Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision