About the Author
Gene Slowinski is the Director of Strategic Alliance Research at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Management. He is also Managing Partner of the Alliance Management Group. Prior to forming the Alliance Management Group, he held management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Novartis Corporation. In addition to a Ph.D. in Management, Gene holds an MBA and a Masters Degree in the sciences. For the last 20 years Dr. Slowinski has consulted and conducted research on the formation and management of strategic alliances, joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. His clients include GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, Ethicon, ExxonMobil, AT&T, Becton Dickinson, Procter & Gamble, Battelle, and many other Fortune 500 firms. An author and lecturer, Gene has presented his work to The Conference Board, The Licensing Executives Society, The Industrial Research Institute, and The American Electronics Association. His articles on managing strategic alliances can be found in Business Horizons, Research and Technology Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Economic Development Quarterly, Les Nouvelles, Cooperative Strategies in International Business, The Journal of Advanced Management, and Managing the High Technology Firm. In 2003, Gene co-authored the book The Strongest Link with Matt Sagal. Gene is active in the technology management community. He is a member of the Academy of Management, The Conference Board's International Council on the Management of Technology and Innovation, the Industrial Research Institute's Research-on-Research Committee, and the Technology Management Research Center at Rutgers University. In addition, he is on the Board of Directors of Advanced Adjuvants LLC. Gene's latest book, Reinventing Corporate Growth: Implementing the Transformational Growth Model, examines the cutting edge strategies which have been widely implemented by today's top companies. The concept of Transformational Growth (T-Growth) focuses on how company's achieve exceptional levels of growth through better utilization of resources and increased cooperation with the companies who have the resources you need. By joining forces with other world-class companies and sharing resources firms have been able to grow in new and profitable ways. In this highly anticipated book, Dr. Slowinski highlights some of the more successful examples of T-Growth in both an informative and entertaining style, while offering his expert first hand analysis of this innovative corporate strategy.