Paul Strebel

Paul J. Strebel is a Swiss business school professor, author and consultant. He is Professor Emeritus of Strategy and Governance at International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne Switzerland.

Education
Strebel received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University, a Master of Science from the University of Cape Town, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University.

Career
While working in the Finance Department of W.R. Grace & Co. first in New York City and then in Lausanne, he was invited to join the Graduate School of Business at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg as Senior Lecturer in Finance and subsequently Director of the MBA Program. In Johannesburg he did research on the efficiency of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and on acquisitions and mergers in the South African context.

When the Soweto riots and subsequent police crackdown occurred in South Africa, he moved to the State University of New York in Binghamton where he became Associate Professor with tenure in 1983 and Chair of the Finance and Economics Group.

After joining IMEDE in Lausanne, one of the two management development institutes that later merged to form IMD, he became the first Director of Research and held the Sandoz Family Foundation Chair in Strategic Change Management.

Strebel has received Research on Leadership Award from the Association of Executive Search Consultants in 1998 and 2004, and the European Case Award from the European Foundation for Management Development in 1994, 1996, and 2000. He has published numerous articles in academic and practitioner journals, such as MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Long Range Planning.