London School of EconomicsSU | Alternative Investments Conference2008
MICHAEL GOOLD is a founding director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre. His research and consulting interests and expertise are concerned with corporate strategy and structure, especially in multi-business companies. He has worked with a wide range of companies in developing the distinctive views on corporate parenting for which Ashridge is now known.
His publications include Designing Effective Organizations: How to Create Structured Networks (Jossey Bass, 2002), Synergy: Why Links between Business Units Often Fail and How to Make Them Work (Capstone, 1998), Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value in the Multibusiness Company (John Wiley & Sons, 1994) Strategic Control: Milestones for Long-Term Performance (Financial Times/Pitman, 1990), and Strategies and Styles: The Role of the Centre in Managing Diversified Corporations (Blackwell, 1987). Michael also runs the Centre’s programme on Group Level Strategy.
Prior to establishing the Centre in 1987, he was a Senior Fellow at the London Business School. During this time, he undertook the research into the role of the corporate centre in diversified companies that led to the publication of Strategies and Styles. He also taught business policy on the Master's programme and on executive courses.
Michael has extensive consulting experience with senior management. From 1971 to 1983 he was a member of the Boston Consulting Group, and in 1978 was elected a Vice President and Director of the firm. He continues to consult with UK and international clients from a variety of industry sectors in addition to his research and teaching responsibilities. Recently, he has extended his work with public sector and not-for-profit organisations.
Michael holds an MA with First Class Honours in PPE and a B.Phil. in Philosophy from Merton College, Oxford, and an MBA with Distinction from the Stanford Business School, California.
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