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Eric D. Beinhocker is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, the independent economics think-tank of McKinsey where he conducts
research on economic, management, and public policy issues. He was
previously a partner at McKinsey and a co-leader of its global strategy
practice.

His career has bridged both the business and academic worlds. He has been a software CEO, a venture capitalist, and an Executive Director of the Corporate
Executive Board. He has also held research appointments at the Harvard Business School,
the MIT Sloan School, and been a visiting scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a graduate
of Dartmouth College and the MIT Sloan School where he was the Henry Ford II Scholar.

Fortune magazine has named Beinhocker a "Business Leader of the Next Century" and his writings on business and economics have appeared in a variety of publications,
including the Financial Times. Originally from Boston, he currently lives in London.

Articles by the Author

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The Adaptable Corporation
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2006 Number 2
To survive, organizations must execute in the present and adapt to the future.
Few of them manage to do both well.
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Tired of Strategic Planning?
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2002 Special Edition: Risk and Resilience
Many companies get little value from their annual strategic-planning process.
It should be redesigned to support real-time strategy making and to encourage
'creative accidents.'
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Strategy at the Edge of Chaos
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2000 Strategy Anthology
"Fishbowl" economics once provided the basis of corporate strategy, but no longer.
New theories show that markets are "complex adaptive systems".
Can managers be more than blind players in an evolutionary business game?
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On the Origin of Strategies
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2000 Strategy Anthology
Evolution across a population is nature's trick for mastering uncertainty. Businesses
can use it too.
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