Dr. Lynda M. Applegate

Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Lynda M. Applegate is the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, teaching courses in entrepreneurial management, managerial economics and business strategy and design, and serving as head of the school's Field-Based Learning program. She is co-chair of the Harvard Policy Group on Network Government Services and the newly-launched E-Government Executive Education Program. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she was on the faculty of the University of Michigan, University of Washington and University of Arizona. In addition to her academic positions, Lynda worked at Ford Motor Company in the 1960s and in the health care industry in the 1970s.

Lynda's research and recent publications focus on the impact of information technology on industries, markets and organizations. She is the author of 4 books, over 40 articles and book chapters, and 200 published cased studies on this subject. Her online course, Building E-Businesses, is the first distance learning executive course available through the school's newly-launched Harvard Business School Interactive unit and through HBS Publishing.

In 1999, Lynda was awarded Harvard Business School's prestigious Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching, and in 1992, she was awarded the School's Berol Award for research excellence. A paper on 21st century business models was selected for presentation at the "Best Papers" session at the Academy of Management annual meeting, and a second paper was selected for presentation at the keynote session of the International Conference on Information Technology and Emergent Forms of Organization. She also won two "Best Paper" awards at the International Conference on System Sciences for papers describing the impact of information technology on group processes and decisions.

Lynda is an active international consultant, is on the board of directors of both public and venture-backed companies, and is an advisor and advisory board member for senior executives leading established companies and entrepreneurial ventures. She is a member of the Advisory Council for NASDAQ, serves on the advisory board to Comptroller General of the U.S., David Walker, and is on the advisory board for the World Bank's Global Development Gateway.