Professor Donald N. Sull is an Associate Professor of Management Practice on the Strategy and International Management faculty at the London Business School.

Prof Sull has published four books and over 65 articles, book chapters and cases. Five of his six Harvard Business Review articles have been bestsellers.

He has won teaching awards at the London Business School and Harvard University. Sull received his AB, MBA, and doctorate from Harvard University, and served as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School before rejoining the London Business School faculty.

His most recent book, Made in China: What Western managers can learn from trail-blazing Chinese entrepreneurs, (Harvard Business School Press, 2005) was named one of the top eight business books of 2005 by the Financial Times.

His book Why Good Companies go Bad (Harvard Business School Press, 2005) was a finalist for the Academy of Management’s Outstanding Management Book Award and translated into eight languages.

Prof Sull’s academic research awards include the Dively Award for outstanding dissertation and the Newcomen Prize for the best business history article.

Prior to academia, Prof Sull worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and as a management-investor with the leveraged buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

He is the Faculty Director of the Global Business Consortium, an executive education programme designed to accelerate multinationals’ ability to create and sustain radical performance improvement which includes Oracle, Emirates Airline, Mars/Masterfood, Standard Chartered Bank, SKF and BT.