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Robert Burgelman carries out longitudinal field-based research on the role of strategy in firm evolution. He has examined how companies enter into new businesses (through corporate entrepreneurship and internal corporate venturing as well as through acquisition) and leave others (through strategic business exit), and how success may lead to co-evolutionary lock-in with the environment. His research has focused on organizations where strategic action is distributed among multiple levels of management. He has written some 100 case studies of companies in many different technology-based industries. He currently focuses on the challenges posed by nonlinear strategic dynamics. |
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Robert A. Burgelman is the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management and Director of the Stanford Executive Program of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Professor Burgelman joined Stanford Business School in 1981 and teaches courses in Strategic Management and Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation. Since 1992, he has been co-teaching the course "Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry, together with the Chairman of Intel Corporation. Before joining Stanford, he was on the Faculties of Antwerp University-UFSIA (1970-73) and New York University (1978-81). Professor Burgelman obtained a Licentiate degree in Applied Economics from Antwerp University and an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Management of Organizations from Columbia University. He was the recipient of CIM (Belgium) and Ford Foundation (USA) doctoral fellowships. In March 2003, the Copenhagen Business School awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr. merc. h. c.) for his contributions to research on innovation. Professor Burgelman was a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School from 1991-92. He was a BP America Faculty Fellow (1988-89) and a GSB Trust Faculty Fellow (1996-97) at Stanford's Graduate School Business School. During 1991-92, professor Burgelman served as Chair of the Division of Business Policy and Strategy of the Academy of Management. Professor Burgelman is the author of many articles on the strategy-making process, internal corporate venturing, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic business exit, and technology strategy, which have appeared in leading academic journals. His recent book Strategy is Destiny: How Strategy Making Shapes a Company's Future (Free Press, 2002), is based on 12 years of research concerning the role of strategy making in Intel Corporation's evolution. He is coauthor of Inside Corporate Innovation (Free Press, 1986, 1988), which describes the complete management process involved in internal corporate venturing. He is also coauthor of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (4th edition, McGraw-Hill-Irwin, 2004), the leading textbook in the field. He is co-editor of Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy, Volumes 4 (1989), 5 (1993), 6 (1997), and 7 (2001). Most recently, he is coauthor of Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases (McGraw-Hill, 2006), which captures much of the material developed for the MBA elective course called "Strategy and Action in the Information Processing industry," which he developed and has co-taught with Andy Grove since 1992. Professor Burgelman has taught executive programs and led senior and top management seminars for major companies worldwide. He has served as advisor to company leaders and has previously served on the Board of Directors of AboveNet Communications, Inc., Uniscape.com, and Convera. He currently serves on the advisory board of Bitfone, a private company. |
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Robert A Burgelman
