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David Yoffie Director, Intel Max & Doris Starr Professor International Business Administration, Harvard Business School |
Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, where he was a lecturer for two years. Professor Yoffie was chairman of the Strategy department from 1997-2002 and chairman of the Advanced Management Program from 1999-2002..
Professor Yoffie's research and consulting have focused on competitive strategy, technology, and international competition. Outside of the Harvard Business School, Professor Yoffie's activities include being on the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation, Charles Schwab Corporation, and Spotfire Corporation. He also serves on the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Over the last ten years, Professor Yoffie has lectured and consulted in more than 30 countries around the world with large industrial and service firms as well as governments and international organizations. When appointed to Intel's board in 1989, he was the youngest outside director of America's largest 150 industrial corporations. Professor Yoffie currently serves as Intel's Lead Independent Director.
Professor Yoffie's recent research focuses on competitive strategy and strategy in high technology industries. Professor Yoffie is the author or editor of eight published books, including 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). Named by Business Week and Amazon.com as one of the top 10 business books of 1998, Competing on Internet Time has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Italian, and became a highly publicized component of the Microsoft-Department of Justice antitrust trial. His newest book, co-authored with Mary Kwak, is Judo Strategy (Harvard Business School Press, 2001). Judo Strategy has been translated into six languages, and examines strategic techniques for turning your competitors' strength to your advantage. Professor Yoffie has also written extensively for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review, as well as numerous scholarly and managerial articles on international trade, firm strategy, and global competition in high technology industries. Professor Yoffie has published more than 100 case studies on business strategy and international management issues, which have sold more than 1,500,000 copies
