Zoltán Antal-Mokos
Professor of Strategy and Dean of Degree Programs
Zoltán Antal-Mokos has been a full professor (of strategy) and ESMT's first associate dean of degree programs since November 2009. In April 2011, the president appointed him dean of degree programs. He joined ESMT in May 2005 as an associate professor and served as the director of ESMT's Executive MBA Program from July 2007 to November 2009. Prior to joining ESMT, Zoltán was the director of Budapest School of Management of BUESPA and the associate dean of the university's Faculty of Business Administration where he held the McKinsey & Co. Chair in Strategy. He graduated from Budapest University of Economic Sciences, which is where he also received his first university doctorate degree. With a grant from the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program, Zoltán then completed his second PhD at London Business School.
Zoltán has vast experience in teaching MBA and executive courses. He has created new and successful courses on privatization, corporate strategy, and M&A. He was twice re-elected to the Committee of Management and Organization Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Zoltán has delivered classes and lectures at the London Business School, Purdue’s Executive Master’s, Copenhagen Business School, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, as well as various international conferences.
Zoltán advises top management and runs strategy-making workshops for local and international corporations including the MOL Group, Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Sara Lee, MALEV Hungarian Airlines, and MATAV (Hungarian arm of Deutsche Telecom). His research focuses on the interrelationships between ownership, firm level strategy, competitiveness, as well as mergers and acquisitions, and organizational politics.
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