- Roberto is Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the House of Innovation of the Stockholm School of Economics, where he directs
The Garden – Center for Design and Leadership - Roberto is also Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches Design Theory and Practice for the MBA / MS students
- He has been a professor at the School of management of Politecnico di Milano where he Co-founded Leadin’Lab, the laboratory for LEAdership, Design and INnovation
- He is an Ambassador for the European Innovation Council, at the European Commission.
Keywords
Leadership, Innovation, Design, Creativity
Areas of expertise
- Innovation Leadership: How to transform organizations
- Design: How to create product, services and experiences that people love
- Innovation Strategy: How to define new breakthrough visions in a changing environment
- Generative AI: How to capture the opportunities offered by AI to
elevate creativity.
Teaching and outreach
- Roberto teaches innovation, leadership and design, in graduate and executive programs, and has co-conceived the program RE[FRAME]
for top executives - He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and has been featured on The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,
Financial Times, Forbes, BusinessWeek. - He is a keynote speaker at major global events, including
the World Business Forum, The Economist Big Rethink, TEDx.
Publications/Resubmissions in Selection
- Roberto Verganti, Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in
a World Awash with Ideas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017 - Roberto Verganti, Design-Driven Innovation – Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating what Things Mean. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2009, selected by BusinessWeek as one of the Best Design an Innovation Books, and by the Academy of Management as one of the best 6 management books published in 2008 and 2009
- Roberto Verganti, Luca Vendraminelli, and Marco Iansiti, “Innovation and Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol 37, n.3, 2020: 212-227
- Roberto Verganti, “The Innovative Power of Criticism”, Harvard Business Review, Volume 95, Number 1, pp. 88-95, January-February 2016
- Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti, “Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You?”, Harvard Business Review, Volume 86, Number 12, 78-86, December 2008
- A. MacCormack, R. Verganti, and M. Iansiti, “Developing Products on “Internet Time”: The Anatomy of a Flexible Development Process”, Management Science, Vol.47, No.1, January 2001, pp. 133-150.
Other engagements
- Roberto has been an advisor to global corporations such as Ferrari, Ducati, P&G, Unilever, Gucci, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Zappos, Microsoft, Johnson&Johnson, Nestlè, Philips, 3M
- He has also been collaborating closely with the European Commission (being one of the conceiver and member of the pilot advisory board of the European Innovation Council) and has advised national and regional governments on innovation policies
- He has been awarded ‘Compasso D’Oro’ (the most prestigious design award in Italy) for his research on design management
- He is in the Hall of Fame of the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Academic degree
PhD
Nationality
Italian
