Robert Grant is Professor of Strategic Management at Bocconi University, Milan. He was born in Bristol, England, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics and City University. He has held faculty positions at Georgetown University, City University (London), California Polytechnic, University of British Columbia, St. Andrews University (Scotland), and London Business School. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, UC Irvine, and Insead. He was formerly a staff economist at the British Monopolies and Mergers Commission. He has contributed to the resource-based and knowledge-based views of the firm and to research into corporate strategy, strategic planning processes and organizational capability. He is the author of Contemporary Strategy Analysis (8th edition, Wiley, 2013), a leading strategic management text.
