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Ron Adner

Ron Adner

Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, Author, Innovation Expert

Ron Adner is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining Tuck.

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Ron Adner is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining Tuck, he was the Akzo-Nobel Fellow of Strategic Management at INSEAD, where he served on the faculty for ten years.

Professor Adner’s award winning research and teaching focus on innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship. His work introduces a new perspective on the relationship between firms, customers, and the broader ‘innovation ecosystems’ in which they interact to create value.

His book, The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See that Others Miss has been heralded as a path-breaking guide to successful innovation in an interdependent world. Among other honors, it was named a “Best Business Book of 2012” by Strategy+Business and Finalist for the Academy of Management Terry Book Award. Adner’s pioneering HBR article Match Your Innovation Strategy to Your Innovation Ecosystem, is assigned reading in over fifty global MBA programs.

Professor Adner’s research has been published in leading academic journals including Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Rand Journal of Economics, Academy of Management Review, and in edited book chapters. His managerial articles have been published in numerous outlets including the Harvard Business Review, MIT/Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Forbes, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal

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  • Entrepreneur Keynote Speakers
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  • Management Keynote Speakers
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Winning the Right Game with Ron Adner | Competition in the Age of Ecosystems
Knowledge in Practice: Innovation Ecosystems with Ron Adner

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