Assistant Professor in Strategy
Imperial College Business School
Imperial College Business School is seeking qualified applicants for a tenure track position in Strategy in its Organisation and Management Group at the rank of Assistant Professor. Candidates should have a primary interest in strategy broadly defined and a secondary interest in innovation, entrepreneurship, or health care would be welcome. Informal interviews will be conducted at the Academy of Management Meetings with formal interviews of short listed candidates to be conducted at Imperial College Business School towards the end of 2014 and early 2015.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach core strategy and strategy electives at an undergraduate and masters level. Teaching loads are moderate and faculty are expected to publish innovative, rigorous, and relevant contributions in top academic journals. Salary is competitive.
The Business School has been established relatively recently and is on course to quickly become a world-class player that is competitive with the best business schools. The School currently has about 70 faculty working across all areas. The School's academics publish regularly in leading journals and produce research with high impact. We have particular strengths in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Finance, and in Healthcare Management. Given Imperial's central London location, our academics have considerable interaction with national and multi-national companies. The Management Department, in which the post will be based, currently has 22 academics and 7 Fellows, working on diverse topics. You can find more about the Group's members and their research here.
Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, England that specialises in science, engineering, medicine and business. A former constituent college of the University of London, it became fully independent on 9 July 2007 as part of the celebrations of its centenary. Imperial has grown through mergers, including with St Mary's Hospital Medical School, the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. Imperial College Business School was established in 2003. Imperial College has about 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students and was ranked 10th in the world by the Times Higher Education World Universities Rankings. The College recently opened a medical school in Singapore and has acquired a new campus in northwest London to allow for continued expansion.
If you would like to meet and discuss the opportunity at the Academy of Management Meetings, please submit a copy of your CV to Nelson Phillips (n.phillips@imperial.ac.uk). A formal application process will be announced towards the end August and it is not necessary to have an informal interview to be considered in the formal process.
Committed to equality and valuing diversity. We are also an Athena Silver SWAN Award winner and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
Nelson Phillips
Professor of Strategy and OB
Imperial College Business School
Visiting Professor
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Imperial College Business School
Office 295
Tanaka Building
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ
T: +44 (0) 20 7594 1699
M: +44 (0) 7817 209 616