Dr. Jim Utterback

Prof. MIT Sloan School

James M. Utterback is Leaders for Manufacturing Professor of Engineering and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since receiving the Ph.D. in 1968 from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Prof. Utterback has held faculty positions at Indiana University, the Harvard Business School, and Chalmers University as well as MIT. From 1983 through 1988, he served as Director of Industrial Liaison at MIT.  His research has focused on the process of technological innovation in firms in the United States and in other countries.  He is editor of the journal Research Policy, and author of Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, published by Harvard Business School Press in 1994.  Recent publications include contributions to Management Science, Strategic Management Journal and The Sloan Management Review.

Jim Utterback's teaching focus is on the management of product and process development, economic and other influences on manufacturing process change, interactions between research, development, and engineering activities and manufacturing operations, and the transfer of new product developments into manufacturing.  He is one of the founding faculty and currently chair of MIT's Management of Technology Program, which is the first area of study at the Institute in which a degree is awarded jointly by the Schools of Management, and Engineering.  He is also one of the founding faculty of the Leaders for Manufacturing Program, which awards dual degrees in engineering and in management.

Jim received the D.Sc. (Hon) from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1997, and was recently elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.