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

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  Pierre Azoulay

  Sloan Distinguished Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
  

  Pierre Azoulay joined the MIT Sloan School faculty in July 2006. In his research, he investigates how organizational design and social networks influence the productivity of R&D in the health care sector. Currently, he is studying the impact of superstar researchers on the research productivity of their colleagues in the academic life sciences... ... (more)

  Pierre Azoulay joined the MIT Sloan School faculty in July 2006. In his research, he investigates how organizational design and social networks influence the productivity of R&D in the health care sector. Currently, he is studying the impact of superstar researchers on the research productivity of their colleagues in the academic life sciences. He is also interested in the topic of academic entrepreneurship, having recently concluded a major study of the antecedents and consequences of academic patenting. In the past, he has researched the outsourcing strategies of pharmaceutical firms, in particular the role played by contract research organizations in the clinical trials process. He teaches courses on strategy and technology strategy.

  Professor Azoulay is also a faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2001 and 2006, he was Associate Professor of Management at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. (less)

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  Steven Eppinger

  General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
  Professor of Management Science and Engineering Systems
  Co-Director, System Design and Management Program
  

  Steven D. Eppinger has created an interdisciplinary product development course at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in which graduate students from engineering, management, and industrial design programs collaborate to develop new products. He also teaches MIT Executive Education programs in the areas of product development and complex project management... ... (more)

  Steven D. Eppinger has created an interdisciplinary product development course at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in which graduate students from engineering, management, and industrial design programs collaborate to develop new products. He also teaches MIT Executive Education programs in the areas of product development and complex project management. From July 2004 through June 2009, he served as deputy dean of MIT Sloan, and was acting dean from July 2007 to October 2007. From 2001 to 2003, he served as faculty co-director of the Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) and the System Design and Management (SDM) programs. He served as co-director of the Center for Innovation in Product Development from 1999 to 2001. Before joining the MIT faculty in 1988, he worked as a machinist, a manufacturing engineer, a product designer, and a consultant in both prototype and production operations.

  Eppinger's research efforts are applied to improving product design and development practices, with a focus on organizing complex design processes to accelerate industrial practices. He is a pioneer in the development of the widely used Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method for managing complex system design, which is applied primarily in the automotive, electronics, aerospace, and equipment industries. His current research explores the emerging practices of globally distributed product development processes.

  In addition to coauthoring a leading textbook entitled, Product Design and Development (fourth edition, 2008), he has authored more than 50 articles in refereed academic journals and conferences. In 1993, Eppinger received both the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award and the MIT Sloan Award for Innovation and Excellence in Management Education. He received the ASME Best Paper Award in Design Theory and Methodology in 1995 and again in 2001.

  Eppinger lectures regularly for international corporations and in executive education programs, and has consulted for or conducted research with more than 100 firms. He serves on the advisory boards of several technology-based small businesses, on the editorial boards for a number of academic journals, on the research advisory council of the Design Management Institute, and on the advisory board of directors of the Society of Concurrent Product Development.

  Eppinger earned SB, SM, and ScD degrees from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering. (less)

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  Matthew Kressy

  Principal, Designturn Inc.
  Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design
  Senior Lecturer, MIT Engineering Systems Division
  

  Matthew S. Kressy specializes in complete product solutions, such as volume production in Asia, through early integration of all related product development disciplines, including manufacturing.

  Prior to establishing Designturn, Kressy co-founded and managed industrial design and marketing communications for SNI Innovation Inc...

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  Matthew S. Kressy specializes in complete product solutions, such as volume production in Asia, through early integration of all related product development disciplines, including manufacturing.

  Prior to establishing Designturn, Kressy co-founded and managed industrial design and marketing communications for SNI Innovation Inc., a product development and manufacturing group in Waltham, Massachusetts.

  His courses focus on industrial design and its role in interdisciplinary product development, and have included collaborations with Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. At universities and professional organizations, Kressy has lectured on industrial design, integrated product development, and integrated product development education.

  He holds a BFA in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design. (less)

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  Ray Reagans

  Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management
  Associate Professor of Organization Studies
  

  Ray Reagans studies the origin and influence of social capital on knowledge transfer, learning rates, and overall team performance. More specifically, he examines how demographic characteristics such as race, age, and gender affect the development of network relations and considers how particular network structures affect performance outcomes, including the transfer of knowledge among individuals and the productivity of research and development teams... ... (more)

  Ray Reagans studies the origin and influence of social capital on knowledge transfer, learning rates, and overall team performance. More specifically, he examines how demographic characteristics such as race, age, and gender affect the development of network relations and considers how particular network structures affect performance outcomes, including the transfer of knowledge among individuals and the productivity of research and development teams.

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