Prof. Krzysztof Obłój

Krzysztof Obloj, Ph.D., former president of European International Business Academy, is a distinguished professor of Strategic and International Management. He holds chairs of Strategic Management departments at Kozminski University and School of Management of University of Warsaw. He has regularly taught at Bodo Graduate School of Management in Norway, ESCP-EAP in Paris, Henley Management College in UK, and Bled School of Management in Slovenia. As a visiting professor he spent a considerable amount of time doing research and lecturing abroad, in EC and China (Sun yat sen University), but mostly in the USA at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Yale University, Central Connecticut State University and Duquesne University. He teaches courses in Corporate Strategy, Strategic Management and International Management at the graduate, postgraduate and PhD levels. He got several teaching awards, and has been several times granted the Best Executive MBA Teacher Award in Warsaw-Illinois Executive BMA Program. He also got several research awards and recognitions, among them for the best books in management in Poland from Warsaw School of Economics, Think Tank and Economicus. He is extensively published and one of the most cited management scholar in Poland. He was recognized with CEEMAN Research Award as Scholar of Central Europe (over 6900 citations as of 06/2021). He has published articles in scholarly journals like Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Research, International Small Business Journal, Business History, European Journal of International Management, European Management Journal, Industrial&Environmental Crisis Quarterly, Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, PostCommunist Economies, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of East West Management and several Polish journals. He is a reviewer in Strategic Management Journal, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Research, Management International Review, International Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management. He has published several books in the US (“Management Systems”, 1993; “Winning: Continuous Improvement Theory in High Performance Organizations”, 1995, “Passion and discipline of strategy”, 2010) and coauthored a few in Europe. His last books published in Poland: “Corporate strategy”, 2014, ‘Passion and discipline of strategy’, 2016, and Practice of strategy, 2017 became bestsellers and have already several editions. He is a member of EIBA, and was chosen a Fellow of this Academy in 2005. He is also a member of SMS and AIB. He is or was a member of editorial boards of the following journals: International Journal of Emerging Economies, International Human Resource Journal, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, Organizational Review. Professor Krzysztof Obloj is a renown corporate speaker and consultant in Poland and advises numerous Polish and international firms (e.g. Orange, LPP, PKN Orlen, Asea Brown Boveri, LG, Benckiser, Beiesdorf, Gedeon Richter, Rockwool) in the areas of strategy, structure and organizational culture. He was a member of over 20 supervisory boards, among them the largest insurance company in Poland (PZU SA), largest petrochemical corporation (Orlen SA) and media corporation (Agora SA). At the moment he is a member of two supervisory boards of large listed companies, and one private companies. He was advisor to Polish President B Komorowski during 2013-2016.