Roberto Verganti is Professor of Management of Innovation at Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches at the School of Management and the School of Design, and where he directs MaDe In Lab, the laboratory for executive education on the MAnagement of DEsign and INnovation. He has been visiting the Harvard Business School twice and had already short visits at CBS since 2007 to teach Design Management at the Full Time MBA. Roberto serves on the Board of the EIASM – the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Product Innovation Management, in the Advisory Board of Research in Engineering Design, and in the Advisory Board of the Design Management Institute of Boston. His research on management of design and design clusters in Italy has been awarded the Compasso d'Oro (the most prestigious design award in Italy).Roberto Verganti has issued more than 150 publications, which lie at the intersection of innovation strategy, design and technology management, and investigate the challenges and processes of innovation in companies ranging from dominant players such as Microsoft and Vodafone to small and dynamic firms such as Alessi and Nintendo.

Publications include “Developing Products on Internet Time” published on Management Science, and “Innovating Through Design” and “Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You”, both published on the Harvard Business Review. His most recent book is Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating what Things Mean” published in 2009 by the Harvard Business Press.