John A Quelch Author & Editor

Professor John A. Quelch has served as Vice Provost of the University of Miami and Dean of Miami Business School in Miami, Florida, USA since 2017.
He was formerly the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Professor Quelch is the first person to be Dean of three leading business schools on three continents. He served as Dean of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai and Beijing; as Dean of London Business School in the United Kingdom; and as Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School. At CEIBS, he raised the school’s MBA Financial Times ranking to number 15 in the world. At London Business School, he raised the global ranking to number 8.
Professor Quelch is the author of 25 books on strategic marketing, global branding and consumer-centric health care. He has been a director of ten publicly quoted companies including Reebok, Pepsi Bottling Group, Aramark and WPP, the world’s largest marketing services company. He has given speeches and seminars in more than 50 countries and has consulted to many multinationals including Sinopec and Tencent. He is senior strategy advisor to JD.com.
Professor Quelch earned degrees from Oxford University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Public Health.
Carin-Isabel Knoop is executive director of the Case Research & Writing Group at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Exposed as a child to the sometimes fatal consequences of a toxic workplace on mental health, Mrs. Knoop attended Harvard Business School to learn how to build better organizations. As the head of the Harvard Business School Case Research & Writing Group for the past two decades she and her team have supported the development of over 1,200 case studies. In addition to working on cases and research projects related to health care and well-being, leadership and organizational design, she has developed and refined a set of management tools focused on maximizing mental health and professional well-being. The book builds on her research, personal and managerial experience to help others understand their responsibility and opportunity to build well-performing human ecosystems.  
Mrs. Knoop, formerly a consultant in Europe, earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.