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The Baltic Rim Project: Helping Russia to obtain a competitive advantage ·
The case of eBusiness and telecommunications This section of our webite presents material which is part of the Baltic Rim Project Conducted by Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School, Dr. Carl F. Fey of SSE SPb and The Institute of International Business at Stockholm School of Economics, Dr. Orjan Solvell from Harvard Business School, Dr. Christian Ketels from Harvard Business School, and Dr. Kim Moller from Oxford Research. The project was a colloaborative effort between Harvard Business School, The Institute of International Business at Stockholm School of Economics, Oxford Research, and BICEPS. Based on a through analysis of the eBusiness and telecommunications industries in Russia, the results of the project point the way for Russia to increase its competitiveness using the successful development of the eBusiness and telecommunication industries as examples. This project builds on Harvard Professor Michael Porter's pervious work which includes more than 16 books and 75 articles including the best-selling books Competitive Strategy (in its 53rd printing), Competitive Advantage, Competitive Advantage of Nations, and On Competition, etc. Michael Porter has also written more than 15 articles for Harvard Business Review and served as a consultant for companies as diverse as Royal Dutch Shell, Proctor and Gambel and First Boston and for governments as diverse as India, New Zealand, and Canada. Below we provide links to presentations made at a seminar SSE SPb held relating to the Baltic Rim Project. Please contact Carl.Fey@hhs.se for additional information.
KEY PARTICIPANTS IN THE BALTIC RIM PROJECT AND/OR SEMINAR Micheal Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and the Director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Professor Porter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1973. Professor Porter's research focuses on regional cluster development, the impact of the Internet on competitive positioning, and antitrust policy. He is the author of 16 books and more than 75 articles, including such seminal works as Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990), and Can Japan Compete? (2000). He has also served as an advisor to many companies and government bodies in the United States and abroad. Professor Porter has won numerous awards for his teaching and research and holds eight honorary degrees. Dr. Carl F. Fey is Associate Dean of Research at Stockholm School of Economics in Russia and an Assistant Professor at Stockholm School of Economics. Much of Dr. Fey’s research focuses on how firms can operate effectively in Russia. In particular Dr. Fey’s work has focused on organizational culture, human resource management, strategic alliances, and eBusiness. Over 400 firms in Russia have taken part in Dr. Fey’s research over the past eight years. Dr. Fey’s research has appeared in leading western and Russian journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, European Management Journal, Voprosi Ekonomiki and Expert. Dr. Fey is also an active lecturer and consultant. Dr. Fey has worked as a consultant in Russia for well-known firms like AGA, Alfa Laval, and Unitex. Dr. Orjan Solvell is a visiting professor at Michael E Porter’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University and Professor and Director of the Institute of International Business at Stockholm School of Economics. One of the world’s leading experts on competitiveness, Professor Sölvell has published several books and many articles. Among Professor Sölvell’s books are Advantage Sweden which he wrote together with Michael Porter and Ivo Zander and The Dynamic Firm which he edited with Alfred Chandler and Peter Hagström. Professor Sölvell has also served as a consultant for many leading multinational companies. Dr. Christian Ketels (Ph.D. London School of Economics 1999) is Principal Associate and Head of Research at Professor Michael E. Porter’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. He works with Professor Porter on issues of business strategy, especially the foundations of positioning and the influence of the Internet on strategy. The other main area of his research concentrates on country and regional competitiveness, where he is currently involved in the management of several projects in the US, Europe, and Asia. He has worked as a strategy consultant for Monitor Company from 1997 to 2000 in the UK, Germany, and Scandinavia where he worked on strategy and country competitiveness issues. In 2000, he was part of a team that started a new European Internet Strategy Consultancy, now part of Adcore AB, Stockholm. Dr. Victor Dostov received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Ioffe Institute in 1991 After working as a physicist he joined Sovam Teleport. Dr. Dostov then became CEO of Quantum Communications, a start-up company in wireless telecommunications and successfully turned it into the main St.Petersburg wireless data transfer operator. Dr. Dostov is currently General Director of the Paycash project which is one of the Russian centers of ePayments and eCommerce. He is also a board member of Alkor Paycash (Russia) and Cyplermint Inc.(US) Victor is also a technical member of the Central Bank committee for Electronic Payments and author of numerous analytical publications on telecommunications and eCommerce. Dr. Kim Moller is CEO Oxford Research. He has 20 years of in-depth research-based knowledge and experience in studies of competitiveness and regional development in addition to technology, innovation and related research issues. He has lead a large number of studies in Denmark and internationally and was in the project management for the Danish team of 17 researchers contributing to Michael Porters “Competitive Advantage of Nations”. For more than 10 years Kim Møller has been a consultant to the EU Commission and he is the founder and CEO of Oxford Research A/S. Ms. Rachel Doern works as a Research Associate for the Stockholm School of Economics in Russia. Her work surrounds the development of electronic business within Russia and the nation’s case for competitive advantage. Her research interests lie in the following fields: international marketing and strategy, change management, and international business management. She is originally from Canada. Dr. Olga Trofimenko is a Research Fellow at Stockholm School of Economics in Russia. She has a Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University. Her dissertation, which she defended in 2000, is titled: “German corporations in Russia: the case of Siemens.” Olga has published 10 articles, three of which are in English. She has also worked as a docent at Maastrich University in 1999. Her research focuses on telecommunications, off-shore programming, foreign direct investment, and transnational corporations’ behaviour. Dr. Igor Dukeov is a Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm School of Economics in Russia. Together with Dr. Fey, Dr. Dukeov has co-ordinated North-West Russia's participation in the Global Competitiveness Survey run by the World Economic Forum and Harvard. Dr. Dukeov's research focuses on conditions that create competitiveness in Russia, consumer behavior, and measuring the living standard of the Russian population. | |||||||||||||||||
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