John Kao

John Kao

John Kao (born 1950) is an author and strategic advisor based in San Francisco. His work concentrates on issues of innovation and organizational transformation.

Kao was born in 1950 to Chinese immigrant parents. An accomplished jazz pianist, he spent the summer of 1969 playing keyboards for Frank Zappa. Kao studied philosophy at Yale College, received an MD from Yale Medical School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He taught at Harvard Business School from 1982-96, where he specialized in innovation and entrepreneurship. He has also held faculty appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Yale College, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

His advisory work for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was described in "The New York Times" as "out of the box". [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DF1331F936A25756C0A9619C8B63 Now Bending Clinton's Ear: An Out of the Box Adviser] ]

Publications

Key publications include:

* "Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity", HarperCollins (1996)
* "Innovation Nation: How America is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back", Free Press (2007)

References

* [http://www.speakersassociates.com/John%20Kao:845.html John Kao]

External links

* [http://www.johnkao.com/ Official website]


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