Short Biographical Sketch of Michael A. Cusumano

Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management and Engineering Systems at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, with a joint appointment in MIT’s Engineering Systems
Division. He specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in the software business. He received a B.A.
degree from Princeton in 1976 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1984, and 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 is currently a director of Patni Computer Systems, one of the largest IT services and custom software
development firms based in India (NYSE: PTI, www.patni.com), and Eliza Corporation, a specialist in speech recognition software
applications, focused on healthcare (www.elizacorp.com). He is on the advisory board of FixStars Corp. (www.fixstars.com), a
Japanese developer of high-performance computing applications. Professor Cusumano and was named one of the most influential
people in technology and IT by Silicon.com in 2009.  He also has consulted for dozens of organizations around the world, 
including Alcatel, Amadeus, AOL, AT&T, BMC Software, Business Objects, Cisco, Ericsson, Fiat, Telecom Italia, Ford, Fujitsu, 
General Electric, Fidelity, Hitachi, Huawei, i2 Technologies, IBM, Intel, the IRS, Lucent, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, NASA, NEC,
Nokia, NTT Data, Nortel, Philips, Robert Bosch, Schlumberger, Siemens, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. Professor Cusumano is 
also the author or co-author of 9 books. His newest book, Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and
Innovation in an Uncertain World (2010), is based on the 2009 Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies at Oxford University. The
Software Business (2004) was named one of the top business books of the year by Steve Lohr of The New York Times. The
international best-seller Microsoft Secrets (1995, with Richard Selby), has been translated into 14 languages. Competing on
Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and its Battle with Microsoft (1998, with David Yoffie) was named a top-10 book of the year
by Business Week and Amazon.com.  In addition, he has published Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive 
Industry Innovation (2002, with Annabelle Gawer);  Thinking Beyond Lean:  Multi-Project Management at Toyota and Other Companies 
(1998, with Kentaro Nobeoka); Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy (2001, with Costas Markides); Japan's Software Factories 
(1991); and The Japanese Automobile Industry (1985).

Contact Information:

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Email: cusumano@mit.edu
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