Dr Daniel Deneffe

Daniel Deneffe is the Managing Director of Deneffe Consulting. He set up the company after 17+ years at Arthur D. Little, the world’s first management consulting firm.Throughout his career he has been active both in Management Consulting and Business Academics:     

Management Consulting:  In management consulting, he has focused throughout on applying pragmatic economic tools, and using solidly founded empirical customer evidence to make better-founded strategic decisions.

Deneffe has applied his expertise in projects worldwide (Europe, US, Latin America, Middle East, Asia Pacific, Australia) and across a wide range of industries (including cars, trucks, FMCGs,  alcoholic beverages, beer, food, retail, financial industries, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, biotech, medical devices, disposable medical supplies, general and psychiatric hospitals, consumer durables, construction, cement, engineering and manufacturing industries, perimeter protection solutions, telecom operators, telecom hardware and software suppliers, payroll services, coach services, radar warning systems, insulation materials, specialty metals, precious metal refining, electric utilities, electricity grid operators, public services, packaging materials, educational apps). 

Business Academics: Deneffe holds a PhD from Cornell University’s Department of Economics (USA) where he specialized in Industrial Economics & Business Strategy and Quantitative Methods.  

Deneffe teaches ‘Business Strategy in the Real World’ at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education.   He received the Dean’s commendation for his distinguished teaching performance twice.

Deneffe is also a Professor of Economics and Strategy at Hult International Business School where he teaches in the EMBA and MBA programs  Prior to joining Arthur D. Little, Deneffe was a full-time faculty member at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.