John C. Beck

Biographie de John C. Beck

John C. Beck, Ph.D., is the Director of International Research at the prestigious Accenture Institute for Strategic Change, where he is currently leading research projects on globalization and the future of wireless communication. He has written more than a hundred articles on the topics of strategic management, corporate leadership, organizational behavior, the global marketplace, and business in Asia. He is also the bestselling author, with Tom Davenport, of The Attention Economy, which was named one of the ten best business books of 2001 by both Amazon.com and Border's Books.
Beck earned his B.A. in East Asian Studies and Sociology summa cum laude from Harvard University, and was the first graduate of Harvard's integrative Ph.D. program in Business Studies. His dynamic business career has spanned the world and a variety of industries. He served as the senior strategic advisor to the First Prime Minister, Prince Ranariddh, during Cambodia's first three years as a democracy. He was Co-Director of the “Project on Strategies of the World's Largest 50 Companies” for the United Nations. He worked as the Far East Advisor with Monitor Company, a Boston-based strategy consultancy, and oversaw the start-up of their operations in Korea and Japan. Beck was also President of Asian Business Information and Publisher of The Asian Century, a newsletter specializing in the strategic analysis of Asian companies and industries.
In addition to his work with Accenture, Beck is a Visiting Professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and an Adjunct Professor at the Ivey School at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches courses on eCommerce, Management Consulting, and Globalization and Leadership. He makes his home in Phoenix, Arizona.