In brief
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, Danish. Innovation consultant. Managing Partner at 13 MBAs.
Current
- Consultant and speaker on innovation and corporate creativity
- Guest lecturer at IESE Business School, working with Professor Paddy Miller
- Managing Partner at 13 MBAs, a professional network for top-tier MBAs
Advisory board positions
- Basno (Online certification startup)
- Prehype (product development company)
- AllStaffed (staff management for service industry)
- CO2penhagen (world’s first CO2-neutral festival)
Past misdeeds
- Management consulting for Joost, MTV, Abbott Laboratories, Rambøll Management, DR, and others.
- Campaign planning, The Danish Parliament.
- Founder of Opgavebank.dk, a Danish non-profit knowledge sharing service.
- Four years of military service as officer and platoon commander in the Danish Royal Guards.
Education
- MBA, IESE Business School, Barcelona.
- MA, Film and Media Science, University of Copenhagen. Minor in Economics.
- Infantry officer, Lieutenant’s Academy, Denmark.
Press and publications
- “Leading Innovation: Four Dangerous Myths“, article in MWorld (American Management Association, 2009).
- “Setting the Standard? Two generations of wireless telecoms”, case study, IESE Business School (2009). Co-authored with Luis Cabral
- “Trendsetters in Private Networks” (PDF), article about 13 MBAs in Børsen (2008, in Danish)
- “How the Semmelweis Reflex prevents us from knowing our customers” (PDF), article, The Edge (2008)
- “The Market for Television Formats”, Master’s thesis (2006).
- “Markedet for TV-formater” (PDF), scientific paper, MedieKultur no. 39 (2005).
- “Storytelling as a management tool“, Bachelor’s thesis (2002).
- “Ingen god politik uden spindoctors“, article, Kommunikationsforum (2002)
- “Historiefortælling for 17.000 medarbejdere – og for 35“, article in Kommunikatøren, Dansk Kommunikationsforening (2002)
- “Nyhederne og fremtiden”, interview with Stig Hjarvard, Samson (2002).
- “Reklamespots i TV-avisen“, article, Samson (1999)
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