Description
This IRI PILOT Research project will be reporting out the findings of their three-year study. This project team from Goodyear, Synthomer, Diageo, and Babson College examined the ways in which R&D senior management can structure teams, establish processes, and behave that will facilitate autonomy in R&D teams and allow them to feel empowered to be proactive. They will share the better practices that they have uncovered from case studies of five different companies.
Contributors
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Gina O'Connor, Professor of Innovation Management, Babson College
Gina joined Babson in January 2019 as a Professor of Innovation Management. She conducts research and develops curricula that facilitates learning for graduate students and executives based on her findings on Breakthrough Innovation capabilities in large mature companies.
Before joining Babson Gina spent 29 years at the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she held the roles of Professor of Marketing and Innovation Management, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Director of the MBA program, Director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship and Director of the Radical Innovation Research Program. Prior to earning her PhD in Marketing and Corporate Strategy at NYU, she worked as a contract administrator for McDonnell Douglas Corporation and as a research analyst for Monsanto's Department of Social Responsibility in St. Louis, Missouri.