Tony Tong

  • Thomas Stix Guggenheim Family Endowed Chair in Business Design and Innovation
  • Dean’s Faculty Fellow
  • Professor
  • Chair of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Operations Division
  • STRATEGY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND OPERATIONS
  • DEMING CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Biography

Tony Tong is Chair of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Operations Division and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business. Prior to his current role, he served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research. He holds the Guggenheim Endowed Chair in Business Design and Innovation.

Professor Tong’s research focuses on firm strategy, innovation management, and international business. His work examines knowledge and innovation, corporate strategy, AI and algorithms, intellectual property rights, often in technology-driven contexts. He has published widely in leading journals, including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, MIS Quarterly, Nature Scientific Data, Organization Science, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Strategy Science.

Professor Tong’s interdisciplinary research has received several awards, including the Strategic Management Society Best Paper Prize (2011), the ICIS Best Short Paper Award (2020), and the Journal of Management in Engineering Best Paper Award (2021). He has served as Principal Investigator on several National Science Foundation (NSF) grants and as Commercialization Lead on multiple federally funded projects.

Professor Tong teaches Strategic Management, Global Strategy, and Technology & Innovation Management across undergraduate, MBA, Executive, Ph.D. programs. He has received multiple teaching awards from the University of Colorado, Ohio State University, and Purdue University. He has also developed highly regarded teaching materials, including “bestseller” case studies published by Harvard Business Publishing and managerial articles on AI and digital innovation in Harvard Business Review. He has mentored many doctoral students, whose dissertations have received the prestigious Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Strategic Management from the Academy of Management.

Professor Tong currently serves as President of the Strategy Science Section of INFORMS and previously served as Chair of the Corporate Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management and on the editorial boards of many leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Strategy Science. He is currently an Associate Editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.