Arnoldo C. Hax is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Hax served as Deputy Dean of the Sloan School from 1987 through 1990. He is currently the Director of the Track in Strategic Management and Consulting at Sloan School.

He received his M.S. at the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining M.I.T. in 1972, he was a member of the faculty at the Harvard Business School and a senior consultant for Arthur D. Little, Inc.

He has published extensively in the fields of strategic planning, management control, operations management, and operations research. He has participated in a great many executive programs at M.I.T., in many U.S. universities and corporations, and in most countries in Europe, in Latin America, and in Asia-Pacific.

In addition, Dr. Hax has wide consulting experience, both in the United States and abroad, where he has consulted with General Motors, Motorola, Digital Equipment Corp., Unilever, and ABB Asea Brown Boveri, among others. He has assisted several Fortune 500 companies in the development of formal strategic planning process. He has been granted a Dean's Award for Excellence at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T.

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