Hi! I am Costas!
I am Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School (City, University of London, UK). I currently hold visiting positions at Alba Graduate Business School (MBA), I have also held visiting posts at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (PGP), Said Business School, University of Oxford (Executive Education) Grenoble Ecole de Management (MSc), International Hellenic University (MBA) and University of Cyprus (MBA).
Specialties
Innovation Management, Curiosity, Creativity. Entrepreneurship, Organizational Ambidexterity, Exploration-Exploitation, Managing Paradoxes and Tensions within Innovative Firms, Decision Making in New Product Development (NPD), Family Businesses
Education
2000 Ph.D. University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland)
1997 MSc HRM University of Surrey (Guildford, England)
1995 B.S. Business Administration American College of Greece (Athens, Greece)
Member
Academy of Management (US)
Strategic Management Society
European Group of Organization Studies
Q&As
1. What is the best part of being a business academic?
The ability to generate, empirically test/explore and share new ideas/knowledge. Exploring new ideas, new possibilities and helping people to develop.
2. What is the worst part of the job?
Grading!
3. What motivates me?
Challenging situations and helping to make a difference in people's lives.
4. What is my career strategy?
Write a lot, read a lot. Obsess about what I don't know.
5. What drives me on?
I am blessed with a lot of energy and curiosity. I am driven by my constant need to learn (and get better) and stretch my comfort zone.
Specialties
Innovation Management, Curiosity, Creativity. Entrepreneurship, Organizational Ambidexterity, Exploration-Exploitation, Managing Paradoxes and Tensions within Innovative Firms, Decision Making in New Product Development (NPD), Family Businesses
Education
2000 Ph.D. University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland)
1997 MSc HRM University of Surrey (Guildford, England)
1995 B.S. Business Administration American College of Greece (Athens, Greece)
Member
Academy of Management (US)
Strategic Management Society
European Group of Organization Studies
Q&As
1. What is the best part of being a business academic?
The ability to generate, empirically test/explore and share new ideas/knowledge. Exploring new ideas, new possibilities and helping people to develop.
2. What is the worst part of the job?
Grading!
3. What motivates me?
Challenging situations and helping to make a difference in people's lives.
4. What is my career strategy?
Write a lot, read a lot. Obsess about what I don't know.
5. What drives me on?
I am blessed with a lot of energy and curiosity. I am driven by my constant need to learn (and get better) and stretch my comfort zone.
Personal
I am a "movie buff" (I watch at least 2 to 3 movies per week and have a soft spot for animation). I also enjoy traveling around the world and documenting my different experiences in my personal journal. Reading a diverse range of magazines and books for relaxation and inspiration has been a long-life obsession.
A proud father, I devote most of my free time with my daughter Lydia.
Q&As
1. What is the best advice I have ever received?
Invest in yourself and the people you believe in.
2. What are important values to me?
Honesty, integrity, resilience and a lot of hard work.
3. What is my most marked characteristic?
Being straightforward and direct.
4. What are my best features?
I am open to new ideas and change, inquisitive, fair minded, disciplined and a good listener.
5. What are my worst features?
I'm impatient for results.
6. In what place am I happiest?
When I am with my daughter and wife. Also, with people with whom it is possible to speak on any subject or disagree wildly.
7. If I wasn't an academic, what would be my dream job?
Film director.
8. What ambitions do I still have?
Lots. Keep learning and absorbing what I can about life, Climb Kilimanjaro, Write a wildly popular book, Dog sled in Alaska, Learn to cook dim sum, Learn to sail, Want to carry on for as long as I am stimulated by what I am doing...there are so many things.
9. How do I unwind?
Writing, Photography, Music, Cooking, Exercising, Reading, ATVs.
A proud father, I devote most of my free time with my daughter Lydia.
Q&As
1. What is the best advice I have ever received?
Invest in yourself and the people you believe in.
2. What are important values to me?
Honesty, integrity, resilience and a lot of hard work.
3. What is my most marked characteristic?
Being straightforward and direct.
4. What are my best features?
I am open to new ideas and change, inquisitive, fair minded, disciplined and a good listener.
5. What are my worst features?
I'm impatient for results.
6. In what place am I happiest?
When I am with my daughter and wife. Also, with people with whom it is possible to speak on any subject or disagree wildly.
7. If I wasn't an academic, what would be my dream job?
Film director.
8. What ambitions do I still have?
Lots. Keep learning and absorbing what I can about life, Climb Kilimanjaro, Write a wildly popular book, Dog sled in Alaska, Learn to cook dim sum, Learn to sail, Want to carry on for as long as I am stimulated by what I am doing...there are so many things.
9. How do I unwind?
Writing, Photography, Music, Cooking, Exercising, Reading, ATVs.