Dr. Stephen Bradley

Professor Harvard Business School  - An acknowledged strategist, consultant and author.

Prof. Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration and Chairman of the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School. He is a member of the editorial board of the prestigious Harvard Business Review (HBR).  In addition, he is the faculty chairman of the Executive Program in Competition and Strategy and also teaches in the Delivering Information Services and the Exploding Internet: New Rules, New Game executive programs. Bradley's current research interests center on the impact of technology on industry structure and competitive strategy.

Dr. Bradley’s consulting clients include AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, General Electric, IBM, Molex, Novelties, NYNEX, State Street Bank, and The Vanguard Group, Department of Energy, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Department of Transportation, and the Environmental Protection Agency.  Dr. Bradley received his BE from Yale and MS and PhD in Operations Research from UCLA, Berkeley. Prior to coming to Harvard, Dr. Bradley was with the Center for Exploratory Studies of the IBM Corporation. His books include Sense and Respond: Capturing the Value in the Network Era, Harvard Business School Press (1998) Globalization, Technology, and Competition, Harvard Business School Press (1993 co-editor of the book Future Competition in Telecommunications, Harvard Business School Press (1989). He has written numerous articles and three other books: Quantitative Methods in Management, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Applied Mathematical Programming, Addison-Wesley, Inc., and Management of Bank Portfolios, John Wiley and Sons.  Recent research includes  "The Converging Worlds of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment" and "Strategic Uncertainty and the Future of Online Consumer Interaction."