HKU ICB
Dr. Tom Tao
Part-time Lecturer at HKU ICB; Assistant Professor, School of Business Administration and Economics, University of Delaware, USA; Member, Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), USA; PhD in Strategic Management, University of Pittsburgh, US
| Teaching Programme | PgDip in Artificial Intelligence & Business Transformation |
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| Stream | Innovation and Management |
Dr Tao is a member of the School of Business Administration and Economics at the University of Delaware, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. He is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), a member of AUTM's International Career Development and Training Committee, an expert in TechCast's Technology Forecasting Think Tank, and a Senior Advisor to Haiyin Capital. He was recently inducted into the US Competitive Intelligence Hall of Fame.
Dr Tao has been engaged in strategic management research and teaching since 1996,and has taught strategic management and competitive intelligence at the University of Pittsburgh, Lehigh University, and James Madison University, and is currently an assistant professor at the School of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware, where he has taught strategic management at the Peking University International BiMBA programme since 2009. In addition to academic research, he has provided consulting and training services to Chinese and foreign companies such as ZTE, Myriad Technology, Haier, General Motors, and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (CAAC), etc. In 2011, he founded the Madison Green Development Group, which is dedicated to providing market and technology competitive intelligence (project collection, technology assessment, and external due diligence) services for Chinese companies investing in cross-border or importing technology from overseas, and in 2015 he participated in founding the In 2015, Dr Tao co-founded the World Chinese Technology Managers Association (WCTMA) and served as Vice President and Board Member.
Dr Tao has been invited to speak and lecture at the Wharton School, University of Michigan, Dartmouth College, University of Tokyo, Peking University, Berlin Institute of Economics, and other world-renowned universities and research institutes, and was invited as an expert witness in the U.S. Congress to introduce the research and development of China's automotive market and enterprises in 2008.