The Creative Enterprise: Managing Innovative Organizations And People

TONY DAVILA is a faculty member at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, and in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he specializes in performance measurement and control systems for innovation management. He consults to large companies and Silicon Valley startups, and has published in leading journals, includingResearch Policy and the Harvard Business Review. With Marc J. Epstein and Robert Shelton, he is co-author ofMaking Innovation Work.

MARC J. EPSTEIN is Distinguished Research Professor of Management, Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University and was recently Visiting Professor and Hansjoerg Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social Enterprise at the Harvard Business School. A specialist in corporate strategy, governance, performance management, and corporate social responsibility, he is the author or co-author of over 100 academic and professional papers and more than a dozen books, includingCounting What Counts, Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance,Making Innovation Work (with Tony Davila and Robert Shelton), and Implementing E-Commerce Strategies (Praeger, 2004), and co-editor and contributor to the multi-volume set,The Accountable Corporation (Praeger, 2005). A senior consultant to leading organizations and governments for over 25 years, he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journalAdvances in Management Accounting.

ROBERT SHELTON is Principal at PRTM Management Consultants. He advises executives in a wide variety of industries and speaks on issues of innovation and business strategy to corporate, government, and university audiences around the world. Previously serving as Managing Director at Navigant Consulting, Vice President and Managing Director with Arthur D. Little, and as Managing Director of the Technology Management Practice at SRI International, his work has been cited in such publications as theWall Street Journal and CNN Financial News and been broadcast on National Public Radio. With Marc J. Epstein and Antonio Davila, he is co-author ofMaking Innovation Work.