MIT Sloan
Executive Education Faculty
Ralph Katz
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Ralph Katz is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management at Northeastern University's College of Business. For more than 30 years, Katz has been carrying out extensive management research, education, and consulting on technology-based innovation, with a particular interest in the management and motivation of technical professionals and high-performing groups and project teams... Read More»
Ralph Katz is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management at Northeastern University's College of Business. For more than 30 years, Katz has been carrying out extensive management research, education, and consulting on technology-based innovation, with a particular interest in the management and motivation of technical professionals and high-performing groups and project teams.
Katz has conducted numerous workshops and seminars on innovation and R&D management type topics for technical staff professionals, managers, and senior executives in many organizations, working with them to improve their management and leadership of technical environments and innovation practices and processes. Among his more recent clients are major industrial corporations, including Dupont; Motorola; Procter and Gamble; Lockheed Martin; Sparta; Goodrich; National Semiconductor; EMC; Nokia; Vancity Cooperative Bank; the CIA; Tetra Pak; Master Foods, Inc.; Ciba Specialty Chemicals; and the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.
He teaches in two MIT Sloan executive programs and also leads the Management of Technology and Innovation executive program at Cal Tech. For more than 10 years, he led the Management of Technology and Technical Professionals courses at IBM's Corporate Technical Institute. Katz has taught in the executive programs of many other universities and was a visiting scholar at INSEAD in Paris during the 2003-04 academic year. His most recent book is The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2004).
In 1981, Katz was awarded the New Concept Award by the National Academy of Management for that year's Most Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Organizational Behavior. He was also the 1986 recipient of R&D Management Journal's Best Paper Award and the 1990 and 1991 recipient of the Academy of Management TIM Division's Best Paper Awards. In 2004, his paper in the IRI-sponsored journal, Research-Technology Management, was selected as the Holland Award Winner for that year's most significant and original contribution to the field of research management.
Katz serves on many journal editorial boards and was the R&D/Innovation and Entrepreneurship departmental editor for Management Science from 1991 to 2001. He holds a BS in math and physics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Close«
Group(s):
Technological Innovation
Entrepreneurship
and Strategic Management
General Expertise:
Research and development; Innovation; Organizational behavior
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Programs Taught By This Faculty
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Strategy and Innovation
Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization
June 13-14, 2013
October 29-30, 2013
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Management and Leadership
December 03-12, 2013
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Management and Leadership
Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations
July 11-12, 2013
October 31-November 01, 2013
Our Programs
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Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management
Managing Complex Technical Projects
June 05-06, 2013 | November 05-06, 2013
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Management and Leadership
Strategic Marketing for the Technical Executive
June 13-14, 2013 | November 14-15, 2013
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Strategy and Innovation
Driving Strategic Innovation: Achieving High Performance Throughout the Value Chain
September 08-13, 2013 | March 23-28, 2014 | September 07-12, 2014
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