Research Areas:
Industry Evolution, Organizational Learning, Technological Competition

Prof. Daniel A Levinthal received his BA from Harvard University in 1979 and PhD in economics, business and public policy from Stanford University in 1985. He is the Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, where he has served since 1989.

Regarded as a leading strategy researcher in the world, Prof. Levinthal was the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science and is now the Editor of Strategy Science. He has published extensively on subjects of organizational adaptation and industry evolution, particularly in the context of technological change.

Prof. Levinthal has earned fellowships at the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management, the latter of which also presented him with the Irwin Award as Distinguished Educator in the Business Policy Division and the Distinguished Scholar Award in Organizational and Management Theory. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from Tilburg University and the University of Southern Denmark.