Dr. Yli Renko is an international renown Strategic Management consultant. Prior to joining the USC faculty in 2003, Dr. Yli Renko worked as Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company where she led teams focusing on a variety of strategic, marketing, and organizational issues. Dr. Renko’s strategic consulting has assisted some of the world’s most efficient Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Helena Yli Renko teaches courses in entrepreneurship on the graduate and undergraduate levels at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California. Dr. Yli Renko’s research has won awards from the Academy of Management, the Babson-Kaufman Entrepreneur Research Conference, the International Council for Small Business World Conference, and the Finnish Academy of Science. Dr. Yli Renko worked as a Research Fellow at London Business School conducting her dissertation research on the key customer relationships of young, middle market based firms, as well as other projects on European venture capital and the internationalization of young firms. Dr. Yli Renko received her doctorate in 1999 from Helsinki University of Technology. Institute of Strategy and International Business. |