David B. Yoffie

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David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS). [1]

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Education and career

Yoffie received his bachelor's degree pa from Brandeis University and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford, where he taught for two years, and spent more than three years as a visiting scholar between 1995 and 2020. Over the last two decades, he has chaired the Harvard Business School's Strategy department, Harvard's Advanced Management Program, Harvard's Young Presidents' Organization program, Harvard's World President's Organization, Harvard's YPO Gold program, as well as several other executive programs. From 2006 to 2012, he was Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the Harvard Business School's executive education programs. Since 2015, Yoffie taught an MBA course on strategy in high technology industries. [2] [3] More than10 of his papers have each been cited over 100 times. [4]

In his research and consulting work, Yoffie focuses on competitive strategy, platform strategies, technology, and international competition. He served on the board of directors of numerous companies, including 29 years on Intel's board and more than 25 years on the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His writings on business strategy and technology have been widely published. Yoffie is the author or editor of 10 books, including "The Business of Platforms (Harper Business 2019) and Strategy Rules (Harper Business 2015). His book Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft (1998), co-authored with MIT Professor Michael Cusumano, was named one of the top 10 business books of 1998 by Business Week and Amazon.com. He has written for The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and the Harvard Business Review, as well as many scholarly and managerial journals. He has also published more than 200 case studies, which have sold more than 4,000,000 copies. [5]

Yoffie has featured among the top 40 case authors consistently, since the list was first published in 2016 by The Case Centre. He ranked third In 2018/19 and 2017/18, [6] [7] fourth in 2016/17 [8] and fifth In 2015/16. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "David B. Yoffie". hbs.edu. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ "From Wall Street to Visual Art". hbsaai.org. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Global Summit" (PDF). intelportfolio.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ "David B. Yoffie" . Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ "David B. Yoffie - Harvard Business School". Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
  6. ↑ "Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2018/19". thecasecentre.org. Archived from the original on 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  7. ↑ "Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2017/18". thecasecentre.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  8. ↑ "Our Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2016/17". thecasecentre.org. Archived from the original on 2020-06-18. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  9. ↑ "Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2015/16". thecasecentre.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-05. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
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