Kory Brown
PhD Student
Department of Management
Email: kory.brown@business.utah.edu
Having spent nearly two decades in the semiconductor and wireless industries, I'm now in my fourth year of the PhD program at the University of Utah. With a focus on strategy, my research interests are found in collaborative innovation and splitting the pie earned from those innovations. Firms choose to participate in R&D consortia, industry alliances, and standard-setting bodies to leverage the strength of the network for the good of the firm, yet large pieces of the pie are earned by only a few. My research examines appropriation from collaborative innovation in terms of participation strategies, firm attributes, and temporal effects.
In teaching, I have taught strategic management at Utah and operations and quality courses elsewhere. I was also selected for the 2009 Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence award. In teaching, I strive to combine strategic management concepts and tools, past experience as an engineer, manager, and corporate executive, and the challenges well-known companies currently face to create an engaging learning environment. Should you walk into my classroom, you are just as likely to see paper airplanes flying in the classroom as a spreadsheet on the screen.
I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Management at Pacific Lutheran University starting in the Fall of 2010. Now, I just need to finish the dissertation!
