David B. Yoffie

David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean, Chair, Executive Education at Harvard Business School. Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and his Master's and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford, where he taught for two years, and spent two years as a Visiting Scholar in 1995-6 and 2002-3. Yoffie was a chairman of the HBS Strategy department from 1997–2002, chairman of the Advanced Management Program from 1999–2002, and currently chairs Harvard's Young Presidents' Organization program. At present Yoffie lectures on competitive and corporate strategy in the Advanced Management Program.^[1]

In his research and consulting work, Yoffie focuses on competitive strategy, technology, and international competition. His writings on business strategy and technology have been extensively published. Yoffie is the author or editor of eight books, including Judo Strategy (Harvard Business School Press, 2001), co-authored with Mary Kwak. Judo Strategy examines how to turn your competitors strengths to your own advantage and was translated into nine languages. Other books are: 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). Business Week and Amazon.com labeled Competing on Internet Time as one of the top 10 business books of 1998. Yoffie has written widely for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review, as well as many scholarly and managerial articles focusing on international trade, firm strategy, and global competition in high technology industries. Yoffie has published more than 100 case studies on business strategy and international management issues, which have sold more than 1,500,000 copies.^[2]

Yoffie is on the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, MindTree Ltd., Enterprise Mobile Inc., and RingTales L.L.C. On his designation to Intel's board in 1989, he was the youngest outside director of America's largest 150 industrial corporations. Yoffie has also lectured and consulted in more than 30 countries worldwide. Additionally, from 1997-1999 he was a member of the U. S. Department of Justice's commission on international anti-trust.^[1]

Books

• Judo Strategy: Turning Your Competitors’ Strength To Your Advantage, co-authored with Mary Kwak, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. (This book has been translated into 8 languages.)
• Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and its Battle with Microsoft, co-authored with Michael A. Cusumano, New York: The Free Press, 1998. (Named one of the top 10 Business Books of 1998 by BusinessWeek and Amazon.com, and translated into 3 languages.) (Abridgement of Appendix One, “Netscape’s Chronology” reprinted in Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases, Allan Afuah and Christopher L. Tucci, NY: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2001.) Abstract
• Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence, ed., Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
• International Trade and Competition: Cases and Notes in Strategy and Management, second edition, with Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1994. (Accompanied by International Trade and Competition Instructor's Manual.)
• Strategic Management in Information Technology Casebook, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1994. (Accompanied by Strategic Management in Information Technology Instructor’s Manual and Teaching Notes.)
• Beyond Free Trade: Firms, Governments, and Global Competition, ed., Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993. Review
• The International Political Economy of Direct Foreign Investment (Vol. I & Vol. II), edited with Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, London, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1993.

Selected articles

• Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and David B. Yoffie. "Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict." Management Science 53, no. 4 (April 2007): pp. 584–598.
• Yoffie, David B., and Mary Kwak. "Mastering Balance: How to Meet and Beat a Stronger Opponent." California Management Review 44, no. 2 (winter 2002): 8-24.
• Yoffie, David B., and Mary Kwak. "Mastering Strategic Movement at Palm." MIT Sloan Management Review 43, no. 1 (fall 2001): 55–63. (Reprint 4315.)
• Yoffie, David B., and Mary Kwak. "Playing by the Rules: How Intel Avoids Antitrust Litigation." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 6 (June 2001): 119-122. (Reprint R0106H.)
• “Software Development on Internet Time," with Michael A. Cusumano, Computer, October 1999, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 60–69. Abstract

Selected Book Chapters

• "Foreign Direct Investment in Semiconductors", in Foreign Direct Investment, Kenneth A. Froot, ed., National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 197–230.
• "Trading Blocs and the Incentives to Protect: Implications for Japan and East Asia", with Kenneth A. Froot, in Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the U. S. in Pacific Asia, Jeffrey A. Frankel and Miles Kahler, eds., National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 125–156.

Sources

• Harvard Business School
• Yoffie’s Business Educators Member Profile

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.businesseducators.com/Educators/David-B-Yoffie
2. ^ http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=6577

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