Bruno W.C. Cassiman

Bruno Cassiman is a visiting Professor at the Strategy Unit of Harvard Business School. Before joining Harvard he was a Professor of Strategy and the Nissan Chair of Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness in the Strategic Management Department of IESE Business School in Barcelona. He was also Professor of Strategy at the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the University of Leuven – KU Leuven – in Belgium. At IESE Business School he has taught the required Competitive Strategy course in the MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA and Advanced Management Programs. He also teaches and chairs custom programs on Innovation and Strategy. At the KU Leuven he has taught the required course on Strategic Management to all master students in their final year at the Faculty of Economics and Business.

Bruno Cassiman received his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He received his BA in Engineering and Management from the KU Leuven, Belgium.

His research interests have centered on the economics of strategy and innovation with a particular focus on the connections between science and industry in the innovation process and the complementarity between different innovation activities.  His work has been published in the leading Economics and Management journals such as The American Economic Review, Management Science, The Strategic Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Strategic Organization, The European Economic Review, The International Journal of Industrial Organization, The Journal of International Business Studies and, Research Policy. Furthermore, he was the department editor of the Business Strategy department at Management Science from 2009 to 2017. He co-edited a book on the relation between mergers and acquisitions and innovation (M&A and Innovation: The Innovation Impact, Edward Elgar 2006) and has been a consultant to the European Commission, the Belgian, Flemish and Catalan governments on matters of innovation policy and to several companies on matters of (innovation) strategy.