Richard Rumelt
Strategy professor and consultant
Richard Rumelt is a strategy writer, speaker and consultant, and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management.
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American Born 1942 in Washington, D.C., United States
About Richard Rumelt
Richard Rumelt was born in 1942. He earned a doctorate in business from Harvard Business School in 1972, and he also holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976 and has since become an emeritus professor there. His research has looked at corporate diversification strategy and at what gives individual business strategies a lasting advantage. From 1995 to 1998 he was president of the Strategic Management Society, and his book Strategy, Structure, and Economic Performance earned him the Irwin Prize. Rumelt is the author of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy. He lives in Bend, Oregon.