Biography

Pascale studied at Harvard Business School, where he received an MBA and PhD, and his life has been an interchange between academia and management consultancy. Academically, he was a member of the faculty of Stanford's Graduate Business School and is currently Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford.

While working at McKinsey and Company he encountered Tom Peters, who was also examining America's industrial plight as it was being overwhelmed by the Japanese. The outcome was the launch of Peters's international career with his and Waterman's book In Search of Excellence, and also the publication of The Art of Japanese Management (1981) by Pascale and Anthony Athos a year earlier.

Pascale attributed Japan's success to "S-factors" – strategy, structure and systems, and what became known as the Honda Effect.

Since then Pascale has become advisor to some of the top companies in the world and to the US government. His book Surfing the Edge of Chaos (2000) describes a world where business is constantly challenged by an ever-changing environment.

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