Michael A. Cusumano
MIT Sloan professor and author
Michael A. Cusumano is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management who studies strategy, product development and entrepreneurship. He co-wrote Strategy Rules with David Yoffie.
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About Michael A. Cusumano
Michael A. Cusumano is a distinguished professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He specializes in strategy, product development and entrepreneurship, with a focus on computer software, automobiles and consumer electronics. He has also held the posts of editor-in-chief and chairman at the MIT Sloan Management Review. He earned a BA from Princeton in 1976 and a PhD from Harvard in 1984, then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Business School. He speaks Japanese fluently and has spent years living and working in Japan. In 2016-17 he took leave to act as a dean at Tokyo University of Science, where he founded the Tokyo Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center. Cusumano has published 14 books. Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs (2015) was written with David Yoffie. His other books include Staying Power, The Business of Software, Platform Leadership and Microsoft Secrets.