Robert Burgelman carries out longitudinal field-based research on the role of strategy in firm evolution. He has examined how companies enter into new businesses (through corporate entrepreneurship and internal corporate venturing as well as through acquisition) and leave others (through strategic business exit), and how success may lead to co-evolutionary lock-in with the environment. His research has focused on organizations where strategic action is distributed among multiple levels of management. He has written approximately 100 case studies of companies in many different technology-based industries. He currently focuses on the challenges posed by nonlinear strategic dynamics.[View Profile]

Dr. Robert Pearl received his MD from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University where he has been a faculty member since 1978. Dr. Pearl has published more than 100 articles in various medical journals, has been a contributor to many books, and has served as a visiting professor at Stanford Business School, Duke University School of Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health.