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Michael Jacobides

Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, London Business School | World Authority on Business Ecosystems | Thinkers50-Ranked | On Strategy & AI

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Michael Jacobides is one of the world's leading authorities on business ecosystems and the forces reshaping competition. A London Business School professor whose "Towards a Theory of Ecosystems" is the most-read article in the Strategic Management Journal, he advises the WEF, BCG, and Fortune 500 firms. On stage, he gives leaders evidence-led, hype-resistant clarity on ecosystems, strategy, and how AI is redrawing industry boundaries.

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    Michael Jacobides biography

    Michael G. Jacobides is one of the world’s foremost authorities on business ecosystems, strategy, and how digital technology and AI are redrawing the boundaries between industries. The Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Strategy at London Business School, he helps leaders make sense of a world where value increasingly migrates across traditional sector lines, and where competing well means helping others innovate as much as innovating yourself.

    Business speaker Michael Jacobides is best known for shaping the modern understanding of “ecosystems”, the networks of firms, platforms, and partners that now define competition in industry after industry. His academic paper “Towards a Theory of Ecosystems” is the single most-read article in the prestigious Strategic Management Journal, and his work on how industries digitize and collide won California Management Review’s Best Article Award. He argues that customer-centric products that cross old boundaries are creating entirely new firms and new forms of competition, an insight that has made him an essential guide for executives navigating disruption.

    From Ecosystem Theory to the AI Economy

    Beyond the classroom, Jacobides serves as Director for Engagement of LBS’s AI & Analytics Initiative and advises at the highest levels of business and policy. He is an Academic Advisor to BCG’s Henderson Institute, Lead Advisor of the strategy boutique Evolution Ltd, a member of the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance, and co-author of the WEF’s white paper on digital platforms and ecosystems. He has advised Fortune 500 companies including SAP, Vodafone, Philips, Santander, and Airbus, worked on policy as a visiting scholar at the New York Fed and for the EU, and served as Chief Digital Economy Advisor to Greece’s competition authority. Ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential management thinkers since 2019, he studied at Athens, Cambridge, and Stanford, and earned his PhD from Wharton.

    As a speaker, Michael Jacobides gives senior audiences evidence-led, hype-resistant clarity on the forces reshaping their industries. He speaks on business ecosystems and platform strategy, how AI is transforming competition and value creation, navigating industry disruption and convergence, and the strategic and governance questions raised by the digital economy. Audiences leave able to separate genuine signal from noise, and with sharper frameworks for where value is heading and how to capture it.

    Michael Jacobides Speaking Videos

    Creating and Capturing Value in Your Business Ecosystems: Michael G. Jacobides at TEDxThessaloniki
    How Disruptive Will Generative AI Be? A Micro-Level Analysis of Evidence and Expectations

    Michael Jacobides Speaking Topics

    Jacobides explains why competition is no longer confined to traditional industries, and why the winners increasingly orchestrate ecosystems of partners, platforms, and complementors. Drawing on the research that made him the field's leading authority, he shows leaders how value migrates across boundaries and how to position their organizations to capture it.

    Cutting through the hype, Jacobides offers an evidence-led view of how artificial intelligence is genuinely reshaping business models, value creation, and competitive advantage. He helps leaders understand which shifts are real and durable, how AI interacts with platform and ecosystem dynamics, and what it means for strategy, organization, and governance.

    As digital technology dissolves the walls between sectors, once-separate industries increasingly overlap and compete. Based on his award-winning research, Jacobides gives leaders a framework for navigating this convergence, anticipating where their industry is heading, who their real competitors will be, and how to respond before disruption arrives.

    Jacobides helps senior teams rethink strategy for an environment defined by shifting firm boundaries, new business models, and relentless value migration. He offers rigorous, practical frameworks for deciding what to own, what to partner on, and where to focus, so leaders can build organizations that stay competitive as the ground keeps moving.

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    Booking Michael Jacobides gives audiences one of the world's definitive authorities on business ecosystems and the strategic impact of AI, delivered with rare academic rigor and a firm resistance to hype. A London Business School professor whose research is among the most-read and most-cited in his field, he also advises the World Economic Forum, BCG, and Fortune 500 companies, so his frameworks are pressure-tested in the real world, not just the classroom. Ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential management thinkers, he helps leaders separate genuine signal from noise and understand where value is truly migrating. He is an ideal speaker for events on strategy, innovation, digital transformation, and AI, especially for senior audiences navigating industry disruption. To bring Michael Jacobides to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.

    Michael G. Jacobides is a Greek strategy scholar and the Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Strategy at London Business School, where he also directs engagement for the school's AI & Analytics Initiative. A world-leading authority on business ecosystems, he advises the World Economic Forum, BCG's Henderson Institute, and major global companies, and has been ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential management thinkers since 2019. He earned his PhD from the Wharton School after studying at Athens, Cambridge, and Stanford.

    A business ecosystem is a network of interdependent firms, platforms, and partners that create value together across traditional industry boundaries, rather than a single company competing alone. Michael Jacobides helped establish the modern theory of ecosystems, showing how companies like the major digital platforms coordinate many players around shared products and customers. His central argument is that in this world, success comes as much from enabling others to innovate as from innovating yourself.

    Michael Jacobides speaks on business ecosystems and platform strategy, the impact of AI on competition and value creation, industry digitization and convergence, and strategy amid constant structural change. His keynotes suit events on strategy, innovation, digital transformation, and AI, as well as boards and leadership teams navigating disruption. To book Michael Jacobides as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.

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