Michael Cusumano

Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management and Engineering Systems at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He recently taught Software & Internet Entrepreneurship as well as Advanced Strategic Management.

Cusumano specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in the computer software industry, as well as automobiles and consumer electronics. He teaches courses on the software business, strategic management, and technological innovation and entrepreneurship.

Cusumano has published over 10 books about business topics. They include "Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft," which was co-written with David Yoffie, and was named one of the top 10 business books of 1998 by BusinessWeek and Amazon.com. "Competing on Internet Time" played a central role in the Microsoft anti-trust trial.

Cusumano is fluent in Japanese and lived and worked in Japan for eight years. He received two Fulbright Fellowships and a Japan Foundation Fellowship for studying at Tokyo University. He has been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University and Tokyo University in Japan, Imperial College in London, the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, the University of Maryland, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Cusumano has consulted for more than 90 major companies around the world. He has been a director of NuMega Technologies and of Infinium Software, as well as a director and advisor to other private and public software companies. Cusumano is currently a director of Patni Computer Systems, one of the largest IT services and custom software development firms based in India, and Eliza Corporation, a specialist in speech recognition software applications focused on healthcare. He is also on the advisory board of FixStars Corp., a Japanese developer of high-performance computing applications; Buzzient, Inc., an MIT spinoff that provides analytic measurement tools for Web 2.0 social networks; and H-5 Technologies, a San Francisco-based firm that focuses on digital search technology.

Cusumano holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a PhD from Harvard University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Production and Operations Management at Harvard Business School.