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Yiorgos Mylonadis

Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

BA (American College in Greece) Ptychio (Athens) MA (UCLA) PhD (MIT)

Yiorgos is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at London Business School where he lectures senior executives and MBA students. Consulting assignments include keynote speeches and senior management meeting facilitation.

He specialises on business ecosystems, digital strategy, entrepreneurial communities, social enterprises, and methodologies for strategic thinking. After earning a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has held appointments on the faculties of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA) before joining London Business School in 2000 where he created Developing Strategy for Value Creation - the School’s first Executive Education Strategy Programme.

He has led large, multi-year advisory and teaching programmes for many firms including Nestle, IBM, Emirates, Oracle, GEA, Xstrata, Nokia, SKF, and Mars, among others. Recent engagements include senior leadership workshop with the British Council and Knauf. He has served as a Trustee of the Reload Greece Foundation.

Research and Awards


  • 2013 Chair of the Board of Trustees, Reload Greece

  • 2008 Case study writing: Xstrata Corporation. Amount awarded: £15,000

  • 2008 Case study writing, “Global Industry Safari”. Partial support: Ingram foundation. Amount awarded: £1,000.

  • 2005 “Solution providers”: RAMD award. Amount awarded: £14,000

  • 2002 “Innovation in Learning” award, London Business School.

  • 2001 “Competing in ecosystems of firms”: Awarded by the Global Mobile Innovation Initiative (Boston University, London Business School, and INSEAD). Amount awarded: 25 points buy-out

  • 1997 “Learning to protect the natural environment: A cross-national study of the relationship between firms and communities of practice”. Awarded by The University Research Foundation. Amount awarded: $10,500.

  • 1997 Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) Academic Advisory Council.

  • 1996 Recognized as an “outstanding Management and Organization Cognition Interest Group reviewer at the Academy of Management

  • 1990 – 1992 Scholarship, The Latsis Fund, MIT

  • 1991- 1992 MacArthur Scholar Awards

  • The social context of problem structuring
  • Production of value in venture communities
  • Solution providers in business ecosystems
  • Strategies and performance of firms in the provision of environmental innovation and services

2002

Open-sourcing environmental regulation: how to make firms compete for the natural environment

Mylonadis Y

In Hoffman A and Ventresca M eds., Organizations, policy and the natural environment: institutional and strategic perspectives, Stanford University Press, 2002

1992

Strategic maneuvering and mass-market dynamics: the triumph of VHS over beta

Mylonadis Y,Cusumano M,Rosenbloom R

Business History Review Spring 1992


Teaching portfolio

Our teaching offering is updated annually. Faculty and programme material are subject to change.