Dr Hamieda Parker teaches the Operations Management and the Global Supply Chain Management courses on the MBA programme at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. She also teaches the Operations and Innovation Management course on the Postgraduate Diploma in Management Programme. Her doctoral research examined collaborative new product development involving new technology based firms and she completed the empirical work for this study as a Sainsbury Fellow based at Said Business School, Oxford University. She is an active researcher, and has conducted research in a number of different sectors and countries, including South Africa, Britain and the USA.