| Profile While head of the Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC), Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such
topics as organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, micro
electrical mechanical system (MEMS) and NANO technology. His personal
research interests include digital culture and rich media (both of which
he pursues at USC), ubiquitous computing, Web service architectures and
organizational and individual learning.
John, or
as he is often called--JSB--is a member of the National Academy of
Education and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence and of AAAS and a trustee of Brown University, the MacArthur
Foundation and In-Q-Tel. He serves on the boards of directors for Corning,
Varian Medical Systems and Polycom and on numerous advisory boards and
boards of startups. He has published over 100 papers in scientific
journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review's 1991 McKinsey Award
for his article, "Research that Reinvents the Corporation" and
again in 2002 for his article (with John Hagel), "Your next IT
strategy." In 1997 he published the book, Seeing Differently:
Insights on Innovation (Harvard Business Review Books). He was an
executive producer for the award-winning film "Art . Lunch . Internet
. Dinner," which won a bronze medal at Worldfest 1994, the Charleston
International Film Festival. He received the 1998 Industrial Research
Institute Medal for outstanding accomplishments in technological
innovation and the 1999 Holland Award in recognition of the best paper
published in Research Technology Management in 1998. With Paul Duguid he
co-authored the acclaimed book, The Social Life of Information (HBS Press,
2000), which has been translated into nine languages with a second addition
in April 2002.
JSB received a BA from Brown
University in 1962 in mathematics and physics and a Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences. In
May of 2000 Brown University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science
Degree. It was followed by an Honorary Doctor of Science in Economics
conferred by the London Business School in July 2001. He is an avid
reader, traveler and motorcyclist. Part scientist, part designer and part
strategist, JSB's views are unique and distinguished by a broad view of
the human contexts in which technologies operate and a healthy skepticism
about whether or not change always represents genuine progress.
Web Presence
Recent Publications - The Only
Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction And
Dynamic Specialization, John Hagel and John Seely Brown, Harvard Business
School Press; (May 2005)
- Storytelling in Organizations :
Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and
Management, John Seely Brown, Stephen Denning, Katalina Groh, Laurence
Prusak, Butterworth-Heinemann; (August 2004)
- The Social
Life of Information, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, Harvard Business
School Press, translated into nine languages. (February 2000)
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