Michael EnrightDirector; Professor of Enright, Scott & Associates; School of Business, HKU
Called "one of the world's reigning strategy gurus" by the Academy of International Business, Michael Enright is a leading expert on competitiveness, regional economic development, and international business strategy. Enright joined the University of Hong Kong as Sun Hung Kai Professor of Business Administration in 1996 after six years as a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he helped to found the modern school of competitiveness analysis. He is a principal of Enright, Scott & Associates, a firm specializing in strategic consulting for governments and major corporations. He also directs the Asia-Pacific Competitiveness Program at the Hong Kong Institute for Economics and Business Strategy and was a founding director of The Competitiveness Institute (a global professional body with members in 40 nations).
In research, Professor Enright has directed major reviews of the competitiveness of 20 different economies on five continents and has co-authored or edited ten books or monographs, including China into the Future: Understanding the World’s Most Dynamic Economy (co-edited with W. John Hoffmann), Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China (with Edith Scott and Ka-mun Chang), Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: The Economic Interaction (with Ka-mun Chang, Edith Scott, and Wen-hui Zhu), The Hong Kong Advantage (with Edith Scott and David Dodwell), Venezuela: The Challenge of Competitiveness (with Antonio Frances and Edith Scott), and Upgrading New Zealand's Competitive Advantage (with Graham Crocombe and Michael Porter). Enright's work on competitiveness and on the economies of Hong Kong and China has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, WorldLink, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asian Business, Asia Inc, the South China Morning Post, and the Business Times, among others. It also has been featured in the Economist, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the South China Morning Post, the Straits Times, Business Times, and many others. Current research projects include multi-year studies of the strategies of multinational firms in the Asia-Pacific, China's international competitiveness, and regional development in Greater China. He is also working on a study of strategic thinking in the new economy and a study on the nature of regional clusters.
As an advisor, Professor Enright has consulted to companies, governments, and multilateral organizations on international business strategy and competitiveness, regional clustering, technology policy, and economic development. He has appeared in more than 30 countries as an invited speaker and executive educator for organizations such as the OECD, the World Bank, the IMF, UNIDO, The Pacific Rim Forum, The Global Forum, The European Commission, The Royal Institute for International Affairs, The European Forum Alpbach, The National Economists Club, The Economist Conferences, The Competitiveness Institute, Wilton Park, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and numerous corporations and other organizations.
