Dr. Liam Fahey

Liam Fahey is Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at Babson College (USA) and Visiting Professor of Strategic Management at the Cranfield School of Management (UK). He is co-founder and a principal of Leadership Forum, Inc. Previously, he taught at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh and M.B.S. and B. Comm. degrees from University College Dublin, Ireland.

Professor Fahey's area of specialization is Strategic Management. His research, teaching and consulting center on competitive strategy, and macroenvironmental and competitor analysis, with special emphasis on linking strategy, scenarios and knowledge. His research has appeared in such publications as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Strategy, Long Range Planning, California Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, American Journal of Small Business, and Harvard Business Review.

He is the author or editor of eight books and over forty articles or book chapters. His most recent books include: Learning from the Future: Competitive Foresight Scenarios (1998), Competitors: Outwitting, Outmaneuvering and Outperforming (1999), and The Portable MBA in Strategy (2nd ed, 2001). He served as editor of Planning Review from January 1987 to June 1995. For ten years, he served as Co?Chairperson of The Strategic Leadership Forum's annual strategic management conference.

Professor Fahey has received awards for his research, teaching and professional activity. His Ph.D. dissertation was awarded the A.T. Kearney "Certification of Distinction" by the Academy of Management. A (co-authored) Journal of Marketing article received that publication’s 1998 awards for best contribution to marketing theory and for best contribution to marketing practice. He was voted "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" by the Kellogg School’s students. He received the Meritorious Award for Distinguished Service from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals in 1990.

Professor Fahey has consulted with and/or conducted executive education programs for manufacturing, service, and not-for-profit organizations including AT&T, Baxter, DaimlerChrysler, Emerson Electric, GE, GM, Hartmarx, Honeywell, IBM, Lucent, 3M, Marriott Hotels, Motorola, Nortel, P&G, Pfizer, Schering?Plough, Texas Instruments, The Saint Paul Companies, Unisys, USG, US West, and Whirlpool. He has also made presentations in many executive education and development programs sponsored by industry and trade associations, consulting firms, universities, and management education institutions in the U.S., Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe, including Ernst and Young, Information Data Search, the University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, Penn State University, Wharton, University of Texas at Austin, Management Center Europe, and the Irish Management Institute.