Christopher A. Bartlett (born 1943) is an

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organizational theorist, and

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Professor of

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at the

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, known for his work on

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and

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with

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Life and work

Born in

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, Bartlett obtained his BA in

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at the

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in 1964, and moved to the

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, where he obtained his MA in business administration from

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, where in 1979 he also obtained his PhD in business administration.Christopher A. Bartlett; Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
at hbs.edu. Accessed 23.01.2015. Bartlett started his career in industry in Australia as marketing manager at

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; in

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as management consultant for

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; and in

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as general manager for

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. After his graduation in 1979 he continued to work for the

, where he eventually was appointed Professor of Business Administration. Bartlett is elected Fellow of the

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, the

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, and the

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. He was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Academy of Management in 2001. In 2002, Bartlett and Ghosal won the Award on Leadership and Corporate Governance from the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) for their article “Building Competitive Advantage Through People.” In 2012, Bartlett won the European Case Clearing House (ecch) Award in the Economics, Politics and Business Environment category for his case with Carole Carlson, "United Cereal: Lora Brill's Eurobrand Challenge." In 2013, he won again in the same category for "Levendary Café: The China Challenge" (coauthored with Arar Han). Bartlett's research interests are in the fields of "strategic and organizational challenges confronting managers in large, complex corporations, and on the organizational and managerial impact of transformational change." Bartlett is a prolific writer of case studies, and Harvard's all-time bestselling case author. He has featured among the top 40 case authors consistently, since the list was first published in 2016 by

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. Bartlett ranked fourth in 2019/20, fifth In 2018/19, sixth in 2017/18, third in 2016/17 and second In 2015/16. He also featured on the list of The Case Centre's all-time top authors list (covering 40 years) released in 2014.

Selected publications

* Bartlett, Christopher A., and

. ''Managing across borders: new strategic requirements.'' 1987. * Bartlett, Christopher A., and Sumantra Ghoshal. ''What is a global manager?.'' Harvard Business School, 1992. * Ghoshal, Sumantra, and Christopher A. Bartlett. ''The individualized corporation.'' (1997). * Bartlett, Christopher A., and

. ''Managing across borders: The transnational solution.'' Vol. 2. Harvard Business School Press, 1999. * Bartlett, Christopher A., and

. ''Transnational management.'' Vol. 4. McGraw Hill, 2000. ;Articles selection * Bartlett, Christopher A. "Building and managing the transnational: The new organizational challenge." ''Competition in global industries'' (1986): 367–401. * Ghoshal, Sumantra, and Christopher A. Bartlett. "Creation, adoption, and diffusion of innovations by subsidiaries of multinational corporations." ''Journal of International Business Studies'' (1988): 365–388. * Ghoshal, Sumantra, and Christopher A. Bartlett.
The multinational corporation as an interorganizational network
" ''Academy of management review'' 15.4 (1990): 603–626. * Bartlett, Christopher A., and

. "Beyond the M-form: Toward a managerial theory of the firm." ''Strategic Management Journal'' 14.S2 (1993): 23–46. * Bartlett, Christopher A., and Sumantra Ghoshal. "Beyond strategy to purpose." ''Harvard Business Review'' (1994): 79–88. *Bartlett, Christopher A., and Sumantra Ghoshal. "Building Competitive Advantage Through People." MIT Sloan Management Review 43, no. 2 (winter 2002): 34–41.

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