Biography

Mariann Jelinek joined the faculty as Richard C. Kraemer Professor of Business in 1989. She holds the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business (1977), as well as the A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1999-2001, she served as Director of the Innovation and Organizational Change Program at the National Science Foundation, on loan from her regular duties at the College of William and Mary. Her career interests include innovation, technology, and their strategic implications; organization learning; administrative systems and organization design, topics on which she has written extensively.

Dr. Jelinek's prior academic postings include the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, where she held the Lewis-Progressive Chair; the State University of New York at Albany; McGill University; and Dartmouth College. She is author or co-author of five books including Innovation Marathon with C.B. Schoonhoven, and more than 40 papers, including the 1995 "Best Paper of the Year" in Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. She is active in professional societies including the Academy of Management and the Eastern Academy of Management, where she is Fellow and Past President.

Work in progress centers on intellectual property dynamics between industries and universities, a project supported by a National Science Foundation grant. Other current research interests entrepreneurship; management of technology and innovation; and the impact of social and institutional contexts on innovation.

Areas of Interest/Expertise

• Strategy
• Innovation
• Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Strategy, Empirical Research
• High Technology Management
• Strategic Planning & Control Systems