He consults on corporate strategy in technology, media and entertainment, health care and other industries.
Philip is the author or co-author of three books about strategy. These are Becoming Hewlett Packard: Why Strategic Leadership Matters, which has been translated into multiple languages and is available as an audiobook, Coming Attractions: Hollywood, High Tech and the Future of Entertainment, and Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases.
He is also the author of Inventing the California Look, a book about 20th century photography and design and The San Francisco Nexus in World War II, about the significant technological and societal innovations that took place in Bay Area during that war.
For several years Philip was associated with the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he worked with Andrew S. Grove of Intel Corporation to develop and help run a groundbreaking seminar on technology strategy and health care for second year MBA students.
Philip has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and Multinational Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Beyond consulting, strategy research and writing, Philip has been involved with the Kinetics Foundation supporting research into movement disorders and is a long time member of the board of directors of Toolworks, a San Francisco based social enterprise that provides job placement, training and independent living services to people facing barriers to employment.
