Professor of Management at Peking University HSBC Business School
Professor Christopher Loch graduated from the Stanford University Business School in the United States and received a doctorate in management. He has worked in the world’s top companies or business schools such as Siemens AG in Germany, McKinsey Company, INSEAD, HP Labs in Palo Alto, Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, and served as Dean of the College of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge in the UK from 2011 to 2021. In addition, as co-director of the China Management Research Center at the University of Cambridge, he is committed to comprehensive research on the management philosophy and practice, innovation and strategic deployment of Chinese enterprises. In September 2023, he joined Peking University HSBC Business School as a management professor.
As a senior scholar, his research work is extremely influential and his results are widely published in academic journals and books. He was named one of the top ten innovation researchers in the world by the Journal of Product Innovation Management in 2012, and one of the top ten researchers in the field of operations management in 2020 by the Journal of Decision Sciences. His research areas include: concurrent engineering and coordination in complex systems, management of highly innovative, uncertain, and ambiguous measures, resource allocation, portfolio management, and strategic deployment, performance measurement of R&D and uncertain projects, incentives, motivation and cultural evolution (behavioral economics), manufacturing management and strategic deployment.