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Faculty & Staff > Management Faculty > Michael Best
Michael Best is University Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He specializes in the area of industrial competitiveness, sector strategies, manufacturing capabilities, technology management, and industrial development. His second book The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring, is published by Harvard University Press. A monograph titled Power to Compete: A Study of Electric Power Industry and Industrial Competitiveness in America and New England was published in 1997. Prof. Best presented the Annual Sir Charles Carter Lecture titled "Competitive Dynamics and Industrial Modernization Programs: Lessons from Japan and America" which has been published by the Northern Ireland Economic Council. His most recent publication in "Production Principles, Organizational Capabilities and Technology Management" (in Jonathan Michie and John Grieve Smith (eds.) Globalization, Growth, and Governance, Oxford University Press, 1998). Professor Best is an international project coordinator for the United Nations Industrial Development Office in Vienna, was on the Advisory Panel for the 1996 Human Development Report of the United Nations, and is an advisor to the World Bank on industrial restructuring projects in Eastern Europe and republics of the ex-Soviet Union. He is currently participating in a study of the electronics industry for the Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Minister's Office of Malaysia and directing a project to develop an industrial strategy for Northern Ireland. Professor Best is a policy board member of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), a Boston think tank founded by Mitchell Kertzman, CEO of SyBase; editorial board member of Massachusetts Benchmark: The Quarterly Review of Economic News and Insight, jointly published the University of Massachusetts and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; member of the board of the Massachusetts Product Development Corporation (1986-1992); and task force member of the Machine Action Project of Hampden County from 1986 to 1992. Professor Best has directed or co-directed the following studies at the Center for Competitiveness: "Defense Conversion Progress: An Industry Survey", a report to the Office of Defense Adjustment Strategy and the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, 1995; "Plastics in Massachusetts", a report to the Merrimack Valley Manufacturing Partnership, 1994; and "Industry Analysis of the Metropolitan Boston Area", a report to the Boston Manufacturing Partnership. For the part of the academic year 1998-1999, Professor Best will be Arthur Andersen Distinguished Visitor, Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge University. He earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of Oregon in 1969. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Sussex University and Queen Mary College of the University of London. In the past three years Professor Best has presented lectures at MIT (Department of Urban Studies and Planning); the University of Cambridge (at the Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering and the Judge Institute of Management Studies); the University of Glasgow; the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; National Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Mexico; Center of International Competitiveness, Slovenia; Ministry of Industry, Indonesia; World Bank, Washington, DC; Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan; Ministry of Industry, Greece; House of Commons, United Kingdom; Ministry of Economy, Nicaragua; and Dublin City University Business School, Ireland.
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