Nancy Hubbard

Professor Nancy Hubbard is a internationally known academic and consultant. She is Dean of the University of Lynchburg's College of Business. She held the Miriam Katowitz Chair of Management at Goucher College, USA. She is a former lecturer at Templeton College, Oxford University having served as an Associate Fellow there for eighteen years as well as an International Professor at IAE in Aix-en-Provence, France. She is also International Faculty at SKOLKOVO, the Moscow School of Management in Russia.

Nancy holds a BSc Business Administration from Georgetown University (International Management and Marketing), a Masters in Management (Human Resources/Industrial Relations) from Oxford University and a Doctorate also from Oxford in Mergers and Acquisitions which combined strategy and organizational behavior. From this background she brings a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to management writing.

Nancy has consulted throughout the world in strategy, global expansion and mergers and acquisitions both independently,and with KPMG and Spicer & Oppenheim (now part of Booz, Allen & Hamilton). She has worked on over forty transactions ranging in size from $25 million to $25 billion. She also lectures and coaches executives from around the world on the subject including those from: Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Royal Bank of Scotland, KPMG, Coopers & Lybrand, P&O, Kingfisher, Amvest (part of DeBeers), Reed Elsevier, Granada, Lafarge, GKN plc, and Hays plc.

She brings an academic rigor but practical approach to her writing. She writes for both the academic and practitioner market.

My latest book ‘Conquering Global Markets: Secrets from the World’s Most Successful Multinationals’ is sponsored by KPMG Consulting and being published by Palgrave in Spring 2013. A Japanese edition is coming out concurrently. The research examines how fifty of the most successful multinational companies from sixteen countries have become global giants through acquisitions, strategic alliances, and greenfield investment. Senior executives from British Petroleum, British Telecom, Cargill, Ford Motor Company, Lafarge, SAP, JBS, Bayer, Sony, Hitachi, ABB, Amcor, United Technologies, Schaffler, Arc, Illinois Tool Works, Cadbury Schweppes, Centrica, Mitsubishi Chemical, Tele2, IMAX, AB Group, Bank of China, Banco Santander, Diageo, Standard Bank, Lonrho, Fast Retailing, Experian, Teva, and BAT amongst others discussed their strategies and success factors when entering new markets. Hundreds of direct quotes and seventeen case studies are used to highlight successful practices.