On July 15, nearly 50 Cantabs and friends gathered at the Harvard Club of New York City where Mark de Rond (Cambridge Judge Business School) spoke over breakfast about managing high-performance teams and his time spent with the Cambridge University Boat Club in 2007. Alumni lingered to ask questions and Mark signed copies of his book, The Last Amateurs: to Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew, for those in attendance.
Video coming soon.
Business Breakfast Briefings will be held in cities across the US and are open to all Cambridge alumni and up to two professional colleagues as guests. The briefings will feature faculty from the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School addressing concerns faced by business today.
Mark de Rond is Reader in Strategy and Organisation at Cambridge Judge Business School and a Fellow of Darwin College. Prior to joining Cambridge Judge Business School, Mark was an assistant professor in strategy at ESSEC Business School, Paris (1999-2001); a college lecturer at University College and Trinity College (University of Oxford); a research fellow at the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in 2008.
Mark has been involved in executive teaching and consultancy with various organizations, including IBM, McKinsey, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Shell Exploration. His research has been featured in The Economist, TIME magazine, The Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Telegraph, among others.
Mark's most recent book The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew was listed as one of the 12 Best Business Books of 2008 by The Financial Times.
Mark was also featured in an 800th Anniversary Cambridge Ideas video about the making of a Boat Race crew. Click here to watch the video (5:34).
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