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Career

· Faculty appointment (boundary spanner), UC Berkeley, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Haas School of Business2026–
· Chief Learning Officer, UC Berkeley, Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation2026–
· Faculty Director, Product Management Program, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business2006–

Publications (62)

The persistence and transfer of learning in industrial settings
1990
1,367
cited
Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking
2007
744
cited
Managing Product Definition in High-Technology Industries: A Pilot Study
1994
246
cited
Product recovery with some byte: an overview of management challenges and environmental consequences in reverse manufacturing for the computer industry
2003
143
cited
Operations strategy : competing in the 21st century
2008
107
cited
Framing Innovation: Negotiating Shared Frames During Early Design Phases
2007
100
cited
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXTENDING THE HORIZON IN ROLLING PRODUCTION SCHEDULING
1982
98
cited
Workplace Design: A New Managerial Imperative
2007
87
cited
Introduction: Infrastructure Meets Business: Building New Bridges, Mending Old Ones
2009
77
cited
Design and Innovation through Storytelling
2009
76
cited
To Frame or Reframe: Where Might Design Thinking Research Go Next?
California Management Review · 2020
59
cited
Environmental Supply‐Chain Management in the Computer Industry:A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective
2000
52
cited
Design Roadmapping in an Uncertain World: Implementing a Customer-Experience-Focused Strategy
California Management Review · 2018
46
cited
The Role of Voluntary Industry Standards in Environmental Supply‐Chain Management
2002
41
cited
Conducting Academic Research with an Industry Focus: Production and Operations Management in the High Tech Industry
2005
39
cited
Self-Reflection: Lessons Learned in a New Product Development Class
2007
38
cited
Innovation as a Learning Process
2007
35
cited
Design Roadmapping: A Framework and Case Study on Planning Development of High-Tech Products in Silicon Valley
2016
30
cited
THE DESIGNEXCHANGE: SUPPORTING THE DESIGN COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
2011
30
cited
Upstream Problem Solving Under Uncertainty and Ambiguity: Evidence From Airport Expansion Projects
IEEE transactions on engineering management · 2008
30
cited
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