Speakers

David Robertson is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches Innovation and Product Management.  From 2002 through 2009 David was the LEGO Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at the Swiss business school IMD.  While at IMD, David was given inside access to The LEGO Group, and wrote his award-winning book ‘Brick by Brick:  How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry’.   David's latest book ‘The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation’ was published in 2017 by Harvard Business School Press.  From 2010 through 2017, David was a Professor of Practice at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught Innovation and Product Design. 

David currently runs MIT’s largest executive program, the Executive Program in General Management. He teaches in MIT’s MBA and executive programs, consults with global Fortune 1000 companies on Innovation and Product Management issues, and is a frequent speaker at corporate events and industry trade shows. David holds an MBA and PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois.  David and his two children are members of the Cherokee Nation.