Robert A. Burgelman is the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management and Director of the Stanford Executive Program of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, which he joined in 1981. Previously he was on the faculties of Antwerp University (Belgium) and New York University, and during 1991-92 he was a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. He studied at Columbia University as a European Doctoral Fellow (Ford Foundation) and ICM Fellow (Belgium). He is the author of Strategy is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future (Free Press, 2002), and of many articles in leading academic and professional journals. He is co-author of Inside Corporate Innovation: Strategy, Structure, and Managerial Skills (Free Press, 1986), and of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (4th edition, McGraw-Hill-Irwin, 2004), the leading textbook in the field. During 1989-2002, he was co-editor of Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy (JAI Press). In 2003 he received a honorary doctorate from the Copenhagen Business School for his contributions to the study of corporate innovation. He has created and taught the course "Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry" for over 10 years with Andy Grove.

Andrew S. Grove

Andrew S. Grove participated in the founding of Intel Corporation more than 35 years ago and has been one of the architects of its success. Intel created the world's first microprocessor and has developed technology that supported the computer and Internet revolutions. He has served as Intel's president and chief executive officer, and as chairman of the board. In 2001, he was named as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Strategic Management Society in 2001, and in 1997 was named Time Magazine's "Man of the Year". Dr. Grove holds several patents on semiconductor devices and technology, has written more than 40 technical papers. Dr. Grove is the author of Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices, 1967; High Output Management, 1983; One-on-One With Andy Grove, 1987; Only the Paranoid Survive, 1996; and Swimming Across, 2001. He is also the author of articles in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

He has taught at the Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and created and taught the course Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry for over 10 years at the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Robert Burgelman.

Philip E. Meza

Philip E. Meza is a research associate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a consultant. As a consultant, Philip works in strategy with clients in a variety of industries in the United States, Australia and South Africa. Philip has written numerous case studies on strategy in information technology and has contributed cases to books including "Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation" by Robert A. Burgelman, Clayton M. Christensen and Steven C. Wheelwright and is a co-author of the teaching notes to that book