Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business , UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business
David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and co-founder of Berkeley Research Group, an expert services and consulting firm of economists and other professionals with expertise in domains ranging from higher education to corporate finance. He has authored over 30 books and 200 scholarly papers, and has been cited more than 77,000 times, per Google Scholar. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management and pioneered the dynamic capabilities perspective, defined as “the ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competencies to address rapidly changing environments.”
A renowned economist and an authority on matters of industrial organization, technological change, and innovation, particularly as it relates to antitrust and competition policy and intellectual property, Dr. Teece has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has received five honorary doctorates.
Dr. Teece has over 30 years of experience as an active consultant performing economic, business, and financial consulting services to businesses and governments around the world. He has worked on matters in industries ranging from music recording to DRAMS, software, lumber, and petroleum, and has testified in both federal and state court, before Congress, and before the Federal Trade Commission, as well as in several international jurisdictions. According to Science Watch (November/December 2005), he is the lead author on the most cited article in economics and business worldwide from 1995 to 2005. He is also one of the top-10 cited scholars for the last decade and has been recognized by Accenture as one of the world’s top-50 business intellectuals. In addition, he is among the “A-List of Management Academics 2011,” an honorary group of 30 accomplished and distinguished U.S. business professors. Dr. Teece was chairman and co-founder of LECG (1988-2007) and vice-chairman from 2007 to 2009.
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