Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of International Business

Business
Economics
International Business School

Expertise

Alliance Strategy and Management, Global Strategy and Organization, Technology Strategy, Mergers And Acquisitions

Profile

Ben Gomes-Casseres is an authority on alliance strategy; he has researched this topic for 20 years, taught it to MBAs and executives, and consulted with major companies in the United STates and abroad. Currently a professor at Brandeis University, he previously served a decade on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He is the author of "The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry" (Harvard University Press, 1996) and co-author of "Mastering Alliance Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Design, Management, and Organization (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2003). Ben's work has also appeared in Harvard Business Associated Press, and in industry periodicals. He is a frequent speaker at major conferences and a consultant and executive trainer to Fortune 100 companies in computers, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and manufacturing. His expertise and writings are at www.alliancestrategy.com, which also offers on-line presentation and advice on alliance management.

Awards and Honors

Decade Award for Most Influential Article Published in Journal of International Business in 1990's (2000 - 2001)

Barry M. Richman Award for best dissertation in international management, Academy of Management (1987)

Phi Beta Kappa and Departmental Award for Historical Research (1976)

Courses Taught

BUS	225a	Organizations and Management
BUS	260a	Competition and Strategy
BUS	262f	Alliance Strategy

Scholarship

Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin. "How Alliances Reshape Competition." Handbook of Strategic Alliances. Ed. Oded Shenkar and Jeffrey J. Reuer. Thousand Oaks, CA:: Sage Publications, 2006

Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin. "Vendor or Partner?." Outsourcing Venture Management Quarter 3, 2006.

Gomes-Casseres,Benjamin co-auth. Adam Jaffe and John Hagedoorn. "Do alliances promote knowledge flows?." Journal of Financial Economics (2005).

Gomes-Casseres,Benjamin Co-Authored with James Bamford and Michael Robinson. Mastering Alliance Strategy: Design, Management and Organization. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Gomes-Casseres,Benjamin. The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Gomes-Casseres,Benjamin Co-Authored with David Yoffie. International Trade and Competition: Cases and Notes in Strategy and Management. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Gomes-Casseres,Benjamin. "Group vs. Group." Harvard Business Review (1994).

Gomes-Casseres,Benjamin Co-Authored with David Yoffie, Edward Elgar, co-ed. David Yoffie. The International Political Economy of Direct Foreign Investment,. Aldershot UD: Edward Elgar Publishers, 1993.