Advisory Board
Emerald Management First's Advisory Board comprises thought leaders and management executives from around the world.
Members serve as a sounding board for the editorial team and help to develop and improve our service. The end result is a better resource and an ever-improving platform for your management research.
Advisory Board members (alphabetical order)
Jim Champy: Chairman, Perot Systems' consulting practice
Jim Champy is recognized throughout the world for his work on leadership and management issues and on organizational change and business reengineering.
He consults extensively with senior-level executives of multinational companies seeking to improve business performance. His first book, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, sold more than three million copies and spent more than a year on the New York Times best seller list.
Mijnd Huijser: founder of CMC-Culture & Management
Mijnd Huijser is the founder of CMC-Culture & Management Consulting, specializing in challenges arising from the cooperation between North American, European, Japanese and Chinese companies.
Mijnd lived and worked for more than 15 years in Southeast-Asia, the Middle East and France. He is the author of two books: The Profit of Peace, on culture and the ethical dilemmas of international business in failing states, and The Cultural Advantage, on what it takes to be a successful global team.
David Jones: former Chief Executive and Chairman of NEXT plc
David Jones CBE is a former Chief Executive and Chairman of NEXT plc.
His illustrious career has taken him through some of the most successful UK retail companies including Kays, Great Universal Stores, Grattan and NEXT. Under David’s leadership, NEXT became the retail success story of the 1990s – being voted the “Retailer of the Decade” – and market capitalization grew from £25m in 1990 to over £3bn in 2001.
Robert S. Kaplan: Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School
Robert S. Kaplan is the co-developer of both activity-based costing and the Balanced Scorecard. He has authored or co-authored 14 books.
The Financial Times included him in its 2005 list of Top 25 Business Thinkers. The Accenture Institute for Strategic Change has named him among the top 50 thinkers and writers on management topics. In 2006 Kaplan was elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.
Yogesh Malhotra: Associate Professor of Accounting & Information Systems, Syracuse University
Dr Yogesh Malhotra is the founding chairman and chief knowledge architect of the New York based research and advisory firm BRINT Institute, LLC.
He is research ranked among the top four, six, and three most influential MIS scholars on knowledge management worldwide respectively in scientific citation studies and surveys published by the American Society for Information Science and Technology, University of Minnesota Management Information Systems Research Center, and, the Drexel University.
Gabrielle O’Donovan: author, practitioner and university lecturer
Gabrielle O’Donovan has worked with major blue-chip companies for many years on organizational design/change management and is a visiting lecturer at Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she lectures at masters degree level.
She developed her initial repotire of skills by working on a range of major initiatives for Cathay Pacific Airways. Her recent HSBC culture change programme won an ASTD Excellence in Practice Award in 2005 and her articles have been published in Corporate Governance International, Banking Today and Best Practices Management. Gabrielle's first book The Corporate Culture Handbook was listed in the top one per cent of best business books for 2006 by Business Book Review, USA.
Laura Patterson: President and co-founder, VisionEdge Marketing Inc.
Laura Patterson leverages her 30 years of sales and marketing experience to lead the firm she co-founded in 1999, VisionEdge Marketing (VEM), a strategic and product marketing firm that specializes in marketing performance measurement and management.
In addition to advising customers on how to improve marketing performance and create a competitive advantage to attract, secure and retain profitable customers, she is a frequent speaker on these topics at universities and associations, such as Purdue University, Stanford University, Tuck’s School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Michael E. Raynor: Distinguished Fellow with Deloitte Research
At Deloitte Consulting LLP, Michael E. Raynor is the Distinguished Fellow with Deloitte Research.
He works with senior executives in the world’s leading corporations across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, energy, and manufacturing. His client work, research, writing, as well as his speaking engagements focus on generating returns – competitive strategy – and reducing risk – corporate strategy.
Gary Spangler: E-Business Leader, DuPont Electronic & Communication Technologies
DuPont operates in more than 70 countries worldwide and employs over 60,000 people.
Gary Spangler is a thought leader for search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, word of mouth marketing, and lead management. He represents DuPont to the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) and he is on WOMMA’s Board of Directors. His opinions have been written in Information Week, NPV Marketing Magazine, Brand Week Magazine, BtoB Magazine and Marketing Sherpa.