Michael E. Raynor is Director in Deloitte Research, the thought leadership arm of Deloitte, the global professional services firm.
He has worked with some of the firm's most significant clients across many industries, including telecommunications, media, computer hardware and software, financial services, energy and health care. He is also a professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Canada, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He focuses on innovation and corporate strategy in his research, writing, and client work, exploring the challenges of sustaining success through innovation and ways to cope with and exploit the constantly shifting demands of uncertain competitive environments.
Raynor is the coauthor of many book chapters and articles in a wide range of publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Long-Range Planning, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, the Journal of Business Strategy, and Engineering Economist.
Raynor holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Harvard University, where he was a John Harvard Scholar. He received his MBA from Ivey, where he received the Nelson M. Davis Memorial Scholarship for excellence, and his DBA from Harvard Business School, where he received the George S. Dively Memorial Award for research excellence. He is Annabel's husband, and they are Charlotte's parents.
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure [and What To Do About It]