Strategic Conversations: Creating and Directing the Entrepreneurial Workforce

About Bruce A. StrongJ.-C. Spender

J.-C. Spender is Research Professor at Kozminski University Warsaw. Before entering academic life he worked for Rolls-Royce IBM as a large account manager and special products planner in merchant banking and was involved in several Silicon Valley start-ups. He was on the faculty at various universities including the University of California Los Angeles and Rutgers University. In 2003 he retired as Dean of the School of Technology and Business at SUNY/FIT and between 2007 and 2008 he served as the Fulbright-Queen's Research Chair. His current research involves theorizing firms and markets under conditions of Knightian uncertainty with additional interests and publications about the history of management and management education strategy and knowledge management. Bruce A. Strong is founding partner of Cambridge Partners and Associates Inc. a multidiscipline consulting company serving the U.S. and international business communities. He is an entrepreneur (founding systems integration firm Context Integration that did more than $250 million in sales) a consultant to senior management of global organizations such as PwC the World Bank and State Street Financial and a featured speaker and lecturer on knowledge and strategy. He has been written up in Fortune and Fast Company magazines for his knowledge management work and has written both academic and business articles including two for The Wall Street Journal.