Family Enterprise Legacy Institute and the Telfer Research Office present Brian Silverman

About the Speaker

Brian Silverman is a Professor of Strategic Management and the J.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair in Management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. His research focuses on the ways in which a firm’s competitive strategy and organizational structure interact to affect its performance, particularly with respect to its technological capabilities. He has published more than 40 articles in academic journals, six books (five as editor), and ten Harvard Business School cases, and his work has been discussed in popular-press venues such as Business Week Online, Glamour Magazine, Slate.com, Sloan Management Review, and The New York Times.  He appears on Stanford University’s list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists in the world.

Prior to rejoining the Rotman School in 2001, Brian was Assistant Professor of Competition and Strategy at Harvard Business School, where he taught the core strategy course and jointly developed an elective on Technology and Competitive Strategy with faculty at the MIT Media Laboratory. He has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Copenhagen Business School, London Business School, New York University, Singapore Management University, Technion, Université de Paris (Sorbonne), University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and the Wharton School.  He is currently Co-Editor of Strategic Management Journal.