Yamlaksira Getachew

Yamlaksira Getachew is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Babson College. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada; an MBA from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and a B.A in Business Management from Jimma University, Ethiopia, where he graduated with a Gold Medal.

Yamlaksira has taught strategy courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels across several academic institutions. He also coauthored two strategy cases: a case on Ethiopian Airlines and another on a social enterprise tackling poverty in Kenya. Yamlaksira's research examines topics in strategic management, international business, and entrepreneurship areas and focuses on the interplay between businesses and sustainable development (with particular emphasis on Africa, economic institutions, and inequality). His research has been published in leading management journals including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of World Business, and Global Strategy Journal and won several prestigious awards including the 2016-2018 Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award from the Stockholm School of Economics and the 2020 UNCTAD-AIB Award for Research on Investment and Development.

Yamlaksira offered advisory services to several entities including UNCTAD, on foreign direct investment in the least developed countries (LDCs), and the African Union, in its formulation of the 2050 Africa's Integrated Maritime (AIM) Strategy. He has also been actively involved in the 39 Country Initiative--an initiative with a major goal of contributing toward poverty reduction by helping improve business education in the world's 39 least-developed countries, of which 32 are in Africa.