David Robertson is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches Innovation and Product Management. Over the course of his career, Dave has been a consultant at McKinsey, a senior executive at small and large technology companies, a radio show host, and a business school professor.

From 2010 through 2017, Dave was a Professor of Practice at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  While at Wharton, he was the host of Innovation Navigation, a weekly radio show and podcast about innovation management (www.innonavi.com). From 2002 through 2009 Dave was the LEGO Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Switzerland’s Institute for Management Development (IMD).  While at IMD, David was given inside access to The LEGO Group, and wrote his award-winning book Brick by Brick:  How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry.  David’s new book, The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation was published in May of 2017 by Harvard Business School Press.

David currently runs MIT’s largest and highest-rated executive program, the Executive Program in General Management.  He also teaches in other MIT executive programs, consults with global Fortune 1000 companies, and is a frequent speaker at corporate events and industry trade shows.