Professor Stelios Kavadias holds the Margaret Thatcher Professorship of Enterprise Studies in Innovation and Growth at the Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) and is the Co-Director of CJBS’ dynamic Entrepreneurship Centre. He is an expert on the innovation and growth challenges that small and large organisations face and passionately shares this expertise via custom executive education programmes.
As an expert on innovation and entrepreneurship, he serves as the Department Editor for Management Science's Entrepreneurship and Innovation department and as an Associate Editor for the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Journal. Recently his work on transformative business models was featured in Harvard Business Review. He is often invited as a keynote to leadership events for major corporations and has authored award-winning case studies.
At Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education, Professor Kavadias directs its Advanced Leadership Programme alongside directing and contributing to several others.
He has authored several case studies through close collaboration with major firms across multiple industries. He also serves as a non-executive director in new ventures, and he delivers keynotes in industry and company-specific events.
Prior to arriving at the Judge, Stelios held the Steven A. Denning chair of Technology and Management at Georgia Tech in the USA, where he directed the GE Energy Project Leadership Management Programme. He has also been a Batten Fellow at the Batten Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Darden School of Business.
