MIT Sloan School of Management
Michael A. Cusumano is the SMR Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. During 2020-2024, he was Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research. He has also held a joint appointment in the MIT School of Engineering. Cusumano specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in computer software as well as automobiles and consumer electronics.
He has consulted and lectured for approximately 100 companies and organizations, including NASA and the World Bank. He is currently a director of Orix Corporation in Japan. He has served as editor-in-chief and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review and writes regularly on Technology Strategy and Management for Communications of the ACM.
Cusumano has published 14 books and more than 120 articles. His latest book is The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power (2019, with Annabelle Gawer and David Yoffie). His prior book with David Yoffie, Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs (2015), has been translated into 18 languages and received wide media coverage. Other books include Staying Power (2010), Microsoft Secrets (1995, with Richard Selby), Platform Leadership (2002, with Annabelle Gawer). and Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and its Battle with Microsoft (1998, with David Yoffie), which was named one of the top 10 business books of 1998 by Business Week and played a central role in the Microsoft anti-trust trial.