Robert A. Burgelman Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Director of the Executing Strategic Change Executive Program Director of the Stanford Executive Program Professor Robert Burgelman is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of corporate entrepreneurship, strategic business exit, and the role of strategy in firm evolution. He also serves on the boards of several major companies. Robert Burgelman carries out longitudinal fieldbased research on the role of strategy in firm evolution. He has examined how companies enter into new businesses (through corporate entrepreneurship and internal corporate venturing as well as through acquisition) and leave others (through strategic business exit), and how success may lead to co-evolutionary lock-in with the environment. His research has focused on organizations where strategic action is distributed among multiple levels of management. He has written some 100 case studies of companies in many different technology-based industries. He currently focuses on the challenges posed by nonlinear strategic dynamics.