toby e stuart, ph.d.
トビー・スチュアート
strategy • business • leadership
Toby (トビー) is Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School. He was the Helzel Chair in Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Innovation; the Faculty Director of the Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program; the Associate Dean for External Affairs; and the Faculty Director of the Institute for Business Innovation at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
He has served as The Charles Edward Wilson Professor at Harvard Business School; The Samberg Professor and Faculty Director of the Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Business School, and the Fred Steingraber-A.T. Kearney Professor of Leadership & Strategy at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
At Harvard Business School and Columbia Business Schools, Stuart was course head for the masters-level required courses in Entrepreneurship and Strategy Formulation. He has taught MBA and executive education courses in corporate strategy, M&A, innovation and technology strategy, leadership, venture capital, private equity, and entrepreneurship.
He has co-directed Harvard Business School’s Creating Corporate-Level Advantage Strategy Program for senior executives; he launched the Executive Program in Corporate Strategy at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and he leads the Program on Competitive Strategy and Innovation at Haas.
Stuart received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He holds an A.B., summa cum laude, in economics from Carleton College.
venture impact
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Stuart is a member of the board of directors (audit committee) at HNTB Holdings, the largest private transportation engineering firm in the United States. He is a co-founder and a director (chair, audit committee) of Flock Freight, a venture capital-backed company disrupting the logistics industry. He also serves on the board of FLYRLabs, an AI-based revenue optimization company for the airline industry.
Previously, Stuart served as a Venture Partner at Avid Park Ventures and has advised senior executives at dozens of companies worldwide.
Professor Stuart is the recipient of the 2007 Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, which is granted every second year to recognize one individual's contribution to entrepreneurship research.
He has received the Dean Award for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Business School, the Award for Teaching Excellence at Cornell University NY-Tech campus, and is multiple recipients of the Cheit Award for Teaching Excellence at Berkeley-Haas. He has won the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution (best paper) award and many other recognitions for scholarly contributions. He served as a Research Fellow at Oxford University Center for Corporate Reputation. Much of Professor Stuart's research has examined social networks, particularly their role in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy. He currently serves as a Department Editor at Management Science, among other present and past editorial roles.
jagdeep
singh
toby's favorite innovator
Jagdeep is a serial entrepreneur, currently co-founder and CEO of QuantumScape, and chairman of Raxium. His entrepreneurial history is one of starting companies willing to take on significant technology risk in return for a disruptively compelling value proposition and correspondingly lower market risk.
He was co-founder and CEO of Infinera Corp, which he took public in a billion-dollar IPO based on the strength of customer demand for its pioneering photonic integrated circuit technology and a new approach to optical networks. He was also co-founder and CEO of Lightera Networks, developer of the CoreDirector optical switch, which was acquired by CIENA Corp and went on to generate billions in revenue.
Jagdeep holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently serves on Stanford Engineering Advisory Board and previously served on the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Board from 2004-2006. He has been recognized for his contributions to the industry by numerous awards, including Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year and LightReading Person of the Year.
“opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— thomas alva edison (february 11, 1847 – october 18, 1931)
toby’s favorite quote