David B. Yoffie

Mary Kwak

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David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he chairs the strategy department and the Advanced Management Program. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, where he was a lecturer for two years.

Professor Yoffie's current research focuses on the Internet, e-commerce, and competitive strategy. In addition to Judo Strategy, his recent publications include 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), which was named by Business Week and Amazon.com as one of the top 10 business books of 1998.

Professor Yoffie has written extensively for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review, as well as numerous academic journals. In addition, he has published more than 70 case studies on business strategy and international management issues, which have sold more than 1,000,000 copies.

Professor Yoffie is on the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation, E-Ink Corporation, and Englishtown.com, as well as the advisory boards of several Internet companies, including Index Ventures, a European venture capital firm.

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Mary Kwak is a research associate at the Harvard Business School. She also covers research in strategy, e-business, and entrepreneurship for the MIT Sloan Management Review and has written for Inc. A former Fulbright scholar, she received an A.B. summa cum laude and an A.M., both in government, from Harvard University.