Robert A. Burgelman is the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management at Stanford Business School, and served as executive director of the Stanford Executive Program. He is the author of Strategy is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future and coauthor of Inside Corporate Innovation: Strategy, Structure and Managerial Skills, Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases, and Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (5th edition). He is a fellow of the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management, and serves as advisor and senior executive educator for global companies.