David B. Yoffie

David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS). Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and his Master's and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford, where he taught for two years, and spent two years as a Visiting Scholar in 1995-6 and 2002-3. Over the last two decades, Yoffie was chaired the HBS Strategy department, Harvard's Advanced Management Program, Harvard's Young Presidents' Organization program, land now chairs Harvard's World President's Organization. From 2006-2012, he served as Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the HBS executive education programs. During his tenure, executive education revenues grew almost 75 percent, classrooms were opened in Shanghai and Mumbai, a new executive education building complex was launched, and HBS emerged the highest rated and largest business school in executive education in the world. At present Yoffie lectures on competitive and corporate strategy in the Owner/President Management Program.[1]

In his research and consulting work, Yoffie focuses on competitive strategy, technology, and international competition. His writings on business strategy and technology have been widely published. Yoffie is the author or editor of eight books, including Judo Strategy (Harvard Business School Press, 2001), co-authored with Mary Kwak. Judo Strategy examines how to turn your competitors strengths to your own advantage and was translated into nine languages. Other books are: Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence (Harvard Business School Press, 1997), and Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft (Free Press, 1998, co-authored with MIT Professor Michael Cusumano). Business Week and Amazon.com labeled Competing on Internet Time as one of the top 10 business books of 1998. Yoffie has written widely for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review, as well as many scholarly and managerial articles focusing on international trade, firm strategy, and global competition in high technology industries. Yoffie has published more than 100 case studies on business strategy and international management issues, which have sold more than 3,000,000 copies.[2]

Yoffie is on the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Mindtree Ltd., HTC Corporation, TiVo Inc., and Financial Engines Inc. On his designation to Intel's board in 1989, he was the youngest outside director of America's largest 150 industrial corporations. Yoffie is a Strategic Advisor of Mobileye since February 2015. Yoffie has also lectured and consulted in more than 30 countries worldwide. Additionally, from 1997-1999 he was a member of the U. S. Department of Justice's commission on international anti-trust.[1]

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