Ron Adner
Nathaniel D’1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration
Areas of Expertise
Strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship
Courses
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategy; Strategy in Innovation Ecosystems
Nathaniel D’1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration
Strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategy; Strategy in Innovation Ecosystems
PhD, MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1998; ME, BME, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 1993
Ron Adner’s award-winning research and teaching introduce a new perspective on value creation and competition when industry boundaries break down in the wake of ecosystem disruption. His two books, The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss (2012) and Winning the Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend, and Deliver in a Changing World (forthcoming, October 2021) have been heralded as landmark contributions to the strategy literature. Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) described his work as “Path-breaking,” and Jim Collins (Good to Great) has called him “One of our most important strategic thinkers for the 21st century.”