Steven C. Wheelwright
Baker Foundation Professor, Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School
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Brian Gorin, Bruce Stangle
Education:
Ph.D., and M.B.A., Stanford University
Summary of Experience:
In his research, Professor Wheelwright examines product and process development and their connection with competitive advantage and operations excellence. His newest book, developed with HBS colleague Clayton Christensen and Stanford colleague Robert Burgelman, is Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, 4th ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2004). Along with Harvard colleagues Bob Hayes, Gary Pisano, and Dave Upton, Professor Wheelwright will shortly publish Operations, Strategy and Technology–Pursuing the Competitive Edge (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2004), a complementary volume to the highly regarded books, Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization (New York: Free Press, 1988) and Restoring Our Competitive Advantage–Competing Through Manufacturing (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1980). He has also co-authored several works with Harvard Business School colleague Kim Clark. In addition to teaching at Harvard and Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Professor Wheelwright has served on the faculty of INSEAD (European Institute of Management) in Fontainebleau, France. He was Vice President of Sales in a family-owned printing company and has consulted in the areas of business/operations strategy and improving product development capabilities.