Implementing Transformational Innovations - Part 1
- Ananya Sheth
- Nov 18, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 26, 2024
with Rory McDonald at ExxonMobil, Houston - Nov 16 & 17, 2023
This symposium, led by Professor Rory McDonald focused on the latest research on how organizations drive new growth by successfully navigating new markets, new business models, and new product categories.
Rory McDonald
Professor McDonald teaches Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) in the MBA elective curriculum and previously taught the Technology and Operations Management course in the MBA required curriculum.
In 2016, he was named one of the world’s top 40 business school professors under 40 by Poets and Quants. Professor McDonald’s research focuses on how firms compete and innovate effectively in new technology-enabled markets. Drawing on a mix of in-depth fieldwork and archival data, he studies how executives develop viable strategies in these contexts and how they obtain resources that improve their chances of success.
For his research on entrepreneurial firms, Professor McDonald received both the Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship as well as the Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. He was also a finalist for the best dissertation award in business policy and strategy by the Academy of Management.
Professor McDonald received his PhD in Management Science and Engineering from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. He also holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MA in economic sociology from Stanford University, as well as two engineering degrees from the University of South Florida. Before joining Harvard, he was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin where he received the CBA Foundation Teaching award. McDonald is on the board of YCG Funds, an Austin-based mutual fund company, and is an advisor to several startups.
Professor McDonald and his wife Anne live in Sudbury, MA with their four children. They are active in their church and enjoy a variety of family activities.
15-video playlist from part 1
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