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Constance Helfat

J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy

Strategy & Management

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Business policy and strategy, technology management, firm capabilities, innovation and knowledge management, women executives, research & development (R&D), CEOs, oil companies and their business strategies, market entry and exit strategies for tech companies (emphasis on digital cameras)

Constance E. Helfat is the J. Brian Quinn Professor of Technology and Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Professor Helfat’s research focuses on firm capabilities and knowledge, with particular attention to technological innovation and adaptation and change of firm capabilities over time. She also has conducted research on corporate executives and boards of directors.

Professor Helfat’s research has been published in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Industrial and Corporate Change. She also has published a book entitled Investment Choices in Industry (MIT Press) and is the editor of the recently published Blackwell/Strategic Management Society Handbook of Organizational Capabilities: Emergence, Development, and Change. Professor Helfat currently serves as an associate editor of Management Science, and is on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization.

Professor Helfat received her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. Prior to coming to the Tuck School, Professor Helfat was a faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

Constance E. Helfat's website

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603-646-3423

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constance.e.helfat@dartmouth.edu