Philip Parker 

INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France & Singapore)

Philip is the Eli Lilly Chaired Professor of Innovation, Buiness and Society at INSEAD where he has taught courses on Global Competitive Strategy and other topics since 1988. His is also been Professor of Interantional Strategy and Economics at the University of California, San Diego (IRPS). On sabbaticals he has taught courses at Harvard Univ. (HBS), the Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, MIT (Sloan School), Stanford Univ. (GSB), and UCLA (Anderson School).

Phil is the author of six books on economic convergence. The books introduce the idea that physics and physiology may come to dominate current explanations of economic behavior. His most recent book considers macroeconomics across countries: Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth (MIT Press, 2000). He has published numerous articles in academic journals, including the Rand Journal of Economics, Marketing Science, the Journal of International Business Studies, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, the International Journal of Forecasting, the European Management Journal, and the Journal of Marketing Research. Some of his earlier research focused on innovation diffusion strategy and the role of information asymmetry in firms’ abilities to sell low-quality products at high prices while capturing market shares (“sweet lemons”).

Prior to joining INSEAD, he worked in Washington, DC as an economist for Nathan Associates. In this capacity, he helped multinational and international organizations formulate strategies toward emerging markets. He also founded or co-founded a few companies in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, mostly dealing with publishing and trade.

Philip received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has Masters degrees in Finance and Banking (University of Aix-Marseille) and Managerial Economics (Wharton). His undergraduate degrees are in mathematics, biology and economics (minor in aeronautical engineering). He has consulted and/or taught courses in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe.

January 2001/Faculty

Some recent publications include:

• Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth, forthcoming, MIT Press, June 2000.

• “Double Hazard Approaches to Modeling Innovation Adoption Across Countries,” Journal of Marketing Research, February 2000 (with Marnik DeKimpe and Miklos Sarvary).

• “Staged Estimation of Diffusion Models: with an International Application to Cellular Telephones,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 57, pp. 102-132, (1998) (with Marnik DeKimpe and Miklos Sarvary).

• “Collusive Conduct in Duopolies: Multimarket Contact and Cross-Ownership in the Mobile Telephone Industry,” RAND Journal of Economics, 28, 2, Summer, (1997), pp. 304-322, (with Lars H. Röller).