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

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  Thomas Allen

  Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus
  Professor of Organization Studies
  

  Thomas J. Allen specializes in organizational psychology and management. He explores the relationship between organizational structure and behavior, the role of technological gatekeepers in technology transfer, and the influence of architectural layout on communication.

  Allen also examines international technology transfer, reward systems for technical professionals, and the impact of organizational structure on project performance...

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  Thomas J. Allen specializes in organizational psychology and management. He explores the relationship between organizational structure and behavior, the role of technological gatekeepers in technology transfer, and the influence of architectural layout on communication.

  Allen also examines international technology transfer, reward systems for technical professionals, and the impact of organizational structure on project performance. His long-term research targets the pharmaceutical and aerospace industries, addressing principally the issue of project management.

  His general expertise is in Ireland, management of engineers and scientists, and the pharmaceutical industry. (less)

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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)