Margaret Graham
PhD, Harvard University, USA
MBA, Harvard University, USA
MA, Harvard University, USA
BA, College of Wooster, USA
Dr. Margaret Graham joined 海角社区's Faculty of Management in 2000. She is also a founding director of the Winthrop Group Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research and writing center on managing innovation. In addition to several multi-year consulting engagements with research-based firms in the specialty materials, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries, she spent four years in R&D management as an executive at Xerox PARC, Xerox's advanced research center in Palo Alto, CA.
Dr. Graham has been a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and the Boston University School of Management. While at B.U. as Professor, Operations Management and Management of Technology, she served as Associate Dean and Dean of the Faculty.
Dr. Graham is a leading scholar of the history of industrial research. Her books include The Business of Research: RCA and the VideoDisc, and R&D for Industry: A Century of Technical Research at Alcoa, coauthored by Bettye Pruitt, both published by Cambridge University Press. Her latest book on innovation, Corning and the Craft of Innovation, coauthored by Alec Shuldiner, was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. Her articles include writings on the history of the information age, and on the evolution of information technology. A chapter entitled "The Threshold of the Information Age: Radio, Television and Motion Pictures Mobilize the Nation," appears in Alfred Chandler and James Cortada (eds.), A Nation Transformed by Information, published this year by Oxford University Press.
Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Books and Edited Volumes
Corning and the Craft of Innovation with Alec T. Shuldiner, Oxford University Press, NY 2001.
R&D for Industry: A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa, with Bettye Pruitt, Cambridge University听Press, NY 1990.
RCA and the VideoDisc: the Business of Research, Cambridge University Press, NY1986. Paperback edition:听The Business of Research: RCA and the VideoDisc, 1988.
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Chapters in Books
鈥淎luminum and the Third Industrial Revolution,鈥� in Giovanni Dosi and Louis Galambos, (Eds) The Third听Industrial Revolution in Global Business, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. forthcoming in March听2013.
鈥淓ntrepreneurship in the United States, 1920-2000,鈥� in Daniel R. Headrick, Joel Mokyr and William J.听Baumol, (Eds.) The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times,听Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010.
鈥淐orning as Creative Responder: A Schumpeterian Interpretation of Disruptive Innovation,鈥� in Sally H. Clarke,听Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Steve W. Usselman (Eds.) The Challenge of Remaining Innovative: Insights from听Twentieth Century American Business, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 2009.
鈥淭echnology and Innovation,鈥� in Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Eds.)The Oxford Handbook of Business听History, Oxford University Press, NY 2008.
鈥淔inancing Fiber: Corning Invades the Telecommunications Industry,鈥� in Naomi Lamoreaux and Kenneth听Sokoloff, (Eds.) Financing Innovation in the United States: 1870 to the Present, Cambridge: The MIT Press,听Cambridge, MA 2007.
"The Threshold of the Information Age: Radio, Television and Motion Pictures Mobilize the Nation," in听Alfred D. Chandler and James Cortada (eds.) A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information听Reshaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present, Oxford University Press, NY 2000.
Awards
2011: Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduates, Desautels Faculty of Management,
2005: Distinguished Teaching Award, 海角社区 Faculty of Management
1987: Broderick Prize for Research, Boston University School of Management
Fellowships
1968-1973: Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship
Grants
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