Mel Horwitch

Mel Horwitch is a professor of technology management, director of the Institute for Technology and Enterprise, former chair of the Department of Technology Management, and founding director of the Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He is also an Othmer Senior Faculty Fellow.

Professor Horwitch is an acknowledged expert on innovation management. He has written extensively on technology strategy, particularly with reference to knowledge-intensive sectors, e.g., services, media, information technology, and telecommunications, global innovation, and the role of networks and cross-boundary and multi-sector endeavors in developing technology. Most recently, Professor Horwitch has been focusing his research on global innovation, especially in emerging economies, global entrepreneurship in both stand-alone and corporate venues, and the future configuration of modern innovation. He has developed new courses at NYU-Poly on services innovation, business model innovation, global innovation, managing growing enterprises, and society-wide technology policy. He also has extensive executive education experience.

Before joining NYU-Poly, Professor Horwitch was a visiting professor at London Business School, professor and founding dean of management at Theseus Institute in Sophia Antipolis, France, the John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow at Templeton College, Oxford University, and visiting professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine. He is also chair of the Technology Management Education Association and has served on the faculties of the Sloan School at MIT and Harvard Business School. He received his AB from Princeton University, an MBA and doctorate from Harvard Business School, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand.

Professor Horwitch’s publications include Technology in the Modern Corporation: A Strategic Perspective (editor and contributor), Clipped Wings: The American SST Conflict (author), Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School (contributor), articles published in such journals as Management Science, Policy Science, Sloan Management Review, Technology in Society, and Business Strategy International, and several print and online multimedia cases.