One of the fastest risers in the 2009 ranking, Richard D’Aveni is the author of Beating the Commodity Trap (Harvard Press, 2010). D’Aveni is Professor of Strategic Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His other bestselling books are Hypercompetition and Strategic Supremacy.
You’ve been described as a combination where Henry Kissinger meets Sun Tzu the author of The Art of War, is that a compliment?
I think it’s great. I loved Henry Kissinger and I spent a lot of time reading his books. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is, of course, the bible of strategists all over the world. So being bracketed with them is a great honour.