Marcus Alexander combines research, writing, teaching and consulting on corporate level strategy and the role of the head office or centre in multi-business companies. He has been a Director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre since 1991, and has lead research programmes on outsourcing, strategic alliances and strategy for the e-economy as well as more general work on corporate planning and the role of the corporate Human Resources function.
Previously he worked as a strategy consultant in the UK, Spain, Australia and the USA, originally at the Boston Consulting Group and subsequently at a firm he co-founded and then sold. He also worked in investment banking and was a tutor at Harvard University. He graduated from Oxford with a double First and was a Harkness Fellow, Baker Scholar and Ford Scholar at the Harvard Business School. He is co-author with Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell of Corporate-Level Strategy, Creating Value in the Multibusiness Company (1994) and has authored several articles for the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and the Financial Times. He has been a Non-Executive Director of several firms.
Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value in the Multibusiness Company