Deadlines
2015 Annual Marriott School OBHR Conference
Speakers
Jeff Dyer
Jeff Dyer (Ph.D UCLA) is the Horace Beesley professor of strategy at Brigham Young University as well as professor of strategy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before becoming a professor he spent five years as a consultant and manager at Bain & Company, a top management consultancy. His book The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the 5 Skills of Disruptive Innovators is a bestseller, has already been published in more than 13 languages, and won the 2011 Innovation Book of the Year Award from Chartered Management Institute. His most recent book The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization is also a bestseller and examines the methods that innovators use to test and validate ideas before launching them in the market.
Beyond his innovation books, Dyer is the only strategy scholar in the world to have published five times in the Harvard Business Review and five times in Strategic Management Journal, the top academic journal in the strategy field. In 2012 he was ranked the world’s #1 “most influential” management scholar among scholars who completed their Ph.D’s after 1990. This ranking, published in Academy of Management Perspectives, was based upon an equal weighting of academic citations (measuring academic influence) and non.edu Google searches (measuring business influence).
Professor Dyer’s research has been covered in articles at Forbes, The Economist, Fortune, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fast Company, Inc., Wired, Entrepreneur, and many other publications. Companies such as Adobe, AT&T, Baker-Hughes, Cisco, General Electric, General Mills, Gilead Sciences, Harley Davidson, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Life Technologies, Northrup Grumman, and Sony have asked him to give speeches or workshops on innovation and/or strategy.