Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

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  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... ... (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. (less)

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  Jay Paap

  President
  Paap Associates
  

  Jay Paap is President of Paap Associates, a management consulting firm assisting major corporations in a broad range of business and technology development efforts, teaches in executive programs sponsored by MIT and Caltech, is a Fellow of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals and a PDMA Certified New Product Development Professional... ... (more)

  Jay Paap is President of Paap Associates, a management consulting firm assisting major corporations in a broad range of business and technology development efforts, teaches in executive programs sponsored by MIT and Caltech, is a Fellow of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals and a PDMA Certified New Product Development Professional. He also has held faculty positions at MIT Sloan School of Management and Indiana University.

  Jay provides clients an integrated approach to creating the innovative environment in which to grow their businesses and position themselves for the future. He provides services in four areas: management of innovation (e.g., roadmaps, business development strategy, new product development, and organization of the technical and business development functions), open innovation and corporate venturing (including alliances and scouting), competitive intelligence, and executive education.

  Dr. Paap has been active in the management of technology for 40 years, and has consulted with industrial and governmental organizations for over 30 years. His clients have included 3M, Abbott, Apple, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Baxter, BP, BHP, British Telecom, Chevron, Dow Corning, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Ford, Gillette, Hewlett-Packard, Hydro-Quebec, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, Lockheed-Martin, IBM, Mars, Monsanto, Motorola, National Research Council (Canada), Novell, Procter & Gamble, Public Services Electric and Gas, Sandia Labs, SABIC, SC Johnson, Shell, Steelcase, Unilever, and Xerox.

  Prior to founding Paap Associates, Jay was Partner at Data and Strategies Group, Principal at Ampersand Ventures, Director of Corporate Consulting at Venture Economics, and Associate Director of the Technology Management Group at Pugh-Roberts Associates. Before entering consulting, Jay was an officer in the US Air Force, responsible for developing and deploying advanced electronics equipment.

  In the 90s he helped start and run the Commercialization Roundtable in which senior business development managers from major companies met regularly for three years to share experiences on corporate venturing and develop best practices on how major corporations can effectively commercialize new technology based concepts and businesses. Among the members of the Roundtable were AT&T, Digital Equipment Corporation, Dow, DuPont, GTE, IBM, MCC, Motorola, and Xerox.

  He has been a frequent speaker on corporate venturing, the management of innovation, and competitive intelligence, appearing in executive-level seminars throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan. He has participated in programs sponsored by MIT, Cal Tech, ANPEI, Business Week, The Management Roundtable, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI), Pure Insight, the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), the AMA, and Nomura Research Institute, as well as internal seminars for over 170 government, professional, and industrial organizations.

  Dr. Paap received his Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is a member of The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, and the Product Development and Management Association; and served on the editorial advisory boards of Technology Management, The Journal of CI and Management and Competitive Intelligence Review where he served as the guest editor for a special edition on competitive technical intelligence. He co-authored “Anticipating Disruptive Innovation” which won the IRI’s Maurice Holland award for the best article published in Research Technology Management. (less)

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  Eric von Hippel

  T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Management
  Professor of Management of Innovation and Engineering Systems
  

  Eric A. von Hippel is a founder of the Entrepreneurship Program at MIT. His academic research examines the sources and economics of innovation.

  Von Hippel is known for pioneering research that has shown how product lead users are often the developers of successful new products, rather than the manufacturers, as has been commonly assumed...

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  Eric A. von Hippel is a founder of the Entrepreneurship Program at MIT. His academic research examines the sources and economics of innovation.

  Von Hippel is known for pioneering research that has shown how product lead users are often the developers of successful new products, rather than the manufacturers, as has been commonly assumed. This research, along with that of collaborators and others, is now triggering a major rethinking of how the innovation process works. The emerging view that users are at the center of the innovation process promises to bring about major changes in company business models and also in government policymaking on innovation-related matters. Denmark recently became the first country to adopt support of user-centered innovation as national policy. Von Hippel also has developed practical tools that are used worldwide to enable product manufacturers to more efficiently participate in user-centered innovation processes. In addition, he has founded and participated in several startup firms.

  Von Hippel serves on numerous editorial advisory boards for academic journals and is an active researcher with a number of international collaborators. His most recent book is Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press, 2005). Copies can be downloaded free of charge from his MIT Website at http://mit.edu/evhippel/www/books.htm.

  Von Hippel is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, was a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and served as Sir Walter Scott Distinguished Professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia. (less)