| Michael
A. Cusumano
Sloan Management Review Distinguished
Professor of Management
Professor of Engineering Systems
Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan
Management Review Distinguished Professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. He
specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship
in the computer software industry, as well as automobiles
and consumer electronics. He teaches courses on Strategic
Management, Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship,
and The Software Business.
Professor Cusumano received a
B.A. degree from Princeton in 1976 and a Ph.D. from Harvard
in 1984. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Production
and Operations Management at the Harvard Business School
during 1984-86. He is fluent in Japanese and has lived and
worked in Japan for seven years. He received two Fulbright
Fellowships and a Japan Foundation Fellowship for studying
at Tokyo University. He has been a visiting professor in
management at Hitotsubashi University and Tokyo University
in Japan and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland,
and a visiting professor in computer science at the University
of Maryland. He has consulted for more than 50 major companies
around the world, including Alcatel, Amadeus, AOL, AT&T,
Business Objects, Cisco, Ericsson, Fiat, Ford, Fujitsu,
General Electric, Fidelity, Verizon, Hitachi, Huawei, i2
Technologies, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Motorola, NASA, NEC, Nokia,
Nortel, NTT Data, Philips, Robert Bosch, Schlumberger, Siemens,
Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. He has been a director of
NuMega Technologies (sold to Compuware in 1998 for $150
million) and Infinium Software (sold to SSA Global Technologies
in 2002 for $105 million), as well as other private and
public software companies. He is currently a director of
Patni Computer Systems (software outsourcing, based in India,
NYSE PTI) and a special advisor to e-Frontier, Japan’s
largest producer of 3-D graphics and animation software
tools. He has been an advisor to numerous startup companies,
including NetNumina Solutions (now part of Keane, Inc.),
firstRain (wireless and web services software), H-5 Technologies
(digital search technology), and Sigma Technology Group
PLC (early stage ventures). He has also served as editor-in-chief
and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review
and writes periodically for Communications of the ACM
as well as The Wall Street Journal, Computerworld,
The Washington Post, and other publications.
Professor Cusumano has published
eight books. The Business of Software: What Every Manager,
Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive
in Good Times and Bad, was named one of the best business
books of 2004 by Steve Lohr of the New York Times. Microsoft
Secrets (1995, with Richard Selby) is a best-selling
study of Microsoft’s strategy, organization, and approach
to software development, and has approximately 150,000 copies
in print in 14 languages. Platform Leadership: How Intel,
Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation (2002,
with Annabelle Gawer) examines how industry leaders orchestrate
complementary innovations that make their platforms more
valuable. Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape
and its Battle with Microsoft (1998, with David Yoffie),
was named one of the top 10 business books of 1998 by Business
Week and Amazon.com, and played a central role in the
Microsoft anti-trust trial. Thinking Beyond Lean: How
Multi-Project Management is Transforming Product Development
at Toyota and Other Companies (1998, with Kentaro Nobeoka)
analyzes product development and platform strategies in
the auto industry. He is also co-editor of Strategic
Thinking for the Next Economy (2001, with Costas Markides)
and author of Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge
to U.S. Management (1991) and The Japanese Automobile
Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota
(1985).
Updated July 2007
News and announcements:
Books
Published by Michael A. Cusumano
Michael
Cusumano mentioned as co-author of book on "browser
wars" (The New York Times - Bits blog - July 30,
2009)
Michael Cusumano comments on
U.S. automakers “Automakers
Wait For President Bush to Jump In” National Public
Radio, "Morning Edition" (December 19, 2008)
Michael
Cusumano and the failure of U.S. automakers MIT News
(November 21, 2008)
Michael
Cusumano on Microsoft and innovation, InformationWeek
(October 24, 2008)
Michael Cusumano and economics
of the IT industry “Highs
and lows” The Economist (October 23, 2008)
Prof.
Michael Cusumano on public radio’s “Marketplace”
in a story on technology stocks – IBM service contracts
boost profit (July 22, 2008)
Prof.
Michael Cusumano in the New York Times, on indirect vs.
direct network effects – Google, Zen Master of the
Market (July 7, 2008)
Sloan
Prof. Michael Cusumano on Bill Gates' Microsoft departure,
in The Economist – After Bill (June 27, 2008)
Prof.
Cusumano in the New York Times – Microsoft Seeks Path
Beyond the Gates Legacy (June 27, 2008)
Sloan
Prof. Michael Cusumano on Bill Gates' Microsoft departure
– Bill Gates steps down, but not out of public eye
(June 25, 2008)
Prof.
Cusamano in NY Times: Facebook is extending its network
to blood donations (March 11, 2008)
Prof.
Cusamano on CRM Daily.com – Can Microsoft learn from
Oracle? (February 29, 2008)
Prof.
Cusmano co-authors article in Wall Street Journal (November
5, 2007)
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