Business POV

Robert Wolcott is Lecturer of Technology Industry Management at the Kellogg School of Management. He teaches corporate innovation and entrepreneurship in Evanston and for Kellogg’s Executive MBA Programs in Hong Kong (with HKUST) and Miami. In 2002 and 2005, he served as Visiting Professor at the Keio Business School (Tokyo).

Professor Wolcott's upcoming article, Four Models of Corporate Entrepreneurship, with collaborator Dr. Mike Lippitz, will appear in the Fall, 2007, issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. His article with Mohan Sawhney and Inigo Arroniz, Twelve Different Ways for Companies to Innovate, was the most downloaded article of 2006 from the MIT Sloan Management Review.

In 2003, Professor Wolcott co-founded (with Mohan Sawhney) and directs the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN), a network of senior executives dedicated to driving sustainable innovation. Members include Cargill, Cisco, PepsiCo, IBM, DuPont, FedEx, Chamberlain Group, Microsoft, Motorola and SC Johnson, among others.

He also co-founded and serves as Managing Partner of Clareo Partners LLC, a corporate strategy and innovation management consultancy. Clients include ABN Amro, Kraft, Microsoft, ADT, Herman Miller, HP, Chamberlain, Ricoh, TKH Group (Netherlands), Rio Tinto Iron Ore, SAP and Motorola. Clareo partners with clients, both global corporations and entrepreneurs, to build plans for and launch new businesses. Dr. Professor Wolcott also consults to the Pentagon as an adjunct of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Alexandria, VA.

Through 2001, Professor Wolcott served as Director of Innovation Process at XL Tech Group (xltg.com), a publicly traded firm (UK) located in Melbourne, Florida, building new technology-based businesses. XLTG owns a $1 billion+ portfolio of firms traded on the public markets in addition to its private holdings.