About the Authors
Founder & Executive Director, Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN)
Faculty Member, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management
Faculty Member, Center for Research in Technology & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Clareo Partners LLC
In 2003, Wolcott founded the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN), a network of senior executives dedicated to driving sustainable innovation. The KIN’s annual summit, KIN Global, takes place in late Spring and includes leaders from around the world from business, government, academia, non-profits and the arts who collaborate around issues of significance for their organizations and for humanity.
Wolcott is a member of the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, teaching corporate innovation and entrepreneurship in Evanston, Miami and Hong Kong (with HKUST). Formerly, Wolcott was a visiting Professor at the Keio Business School in Tokyo, Japan and an advisor to NORDEN, the Nordic Innovation Center, Nordic Council of Ministers, Oslo, Norway.
Wolcott also co-founded and serves as Managing Partner of Clareo Partners LLC, a corporate strategy and innovation management consultancy specializing in new business creation and growth. Subsidiary Clareo Capital owns equity in companies in social enterprise and luxury markets. Clareo’s headquarters, Clareo Studio, created in partnership with Herman Miller, Inc., serves as a collaboration space for special events, corporate off-sites and performances dedicated to innovation, entrepreneurship, social awareness and general inspiration. Wolcott’s work has appeared in MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Business Week, The Financial Times (UK/European Edition) and the New York Times. He is a frequent speaker at events worldwide.
Wolcott received a BA, European and Chinese History; and an MS and Ph.D., Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Wolcott, his wife, Ada, and daughter, Jolie, reside in Chicago, Illinois.
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Research in Technology & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management
Principal, Clareo Partners LLC
Adjunct Senior Policy Analyst, Institute for Defense Analyses
Mike Lippitz advises corporations and government agencies on public policy, competitive strategy and management systems. Combining experience in government, business and technology—and translating across those communities for high-level decision makers—has been the focus of his career. In addition to his work on new business creation within established organizations in Grow From Within, he has published reports or led research teams on a large variety of innovation and technology management topics, including the impact of globalization on the defense industrial base; modernization of export controls; the roles and authorities of a Chief Technology Officer; the causes and indicators of intrastate armed conflict; and future commercial and residential security scenarios. He holds a top secret US government security clearance.
Lippitz is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research in Technology (CRTI) at the Kellogg School of Management and a Principal with Clareo Partners LLC, a strategy consultancy based in Chicago, Illinois.
Prior to his consulting career, Lippitz served as Special Assistant for Strategic Technology Planning in the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, US Department of Defense, where he was lead writer on DoD strategy to merge military with commercial development to achieve affordable access to leading edge technologies. At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he prepared negotiators for the Biological Weapons Convention, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and Threshold Test Ban Treaty, using decision-analytic models and economic analysis. At the Hewlett-Packard Company, he coordinated and provided strategic direction for engineers in research and development, production, and sales in support of a large microwave test equipment product line.
Lippitz received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from Brown University, a master’s degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, under former US Secretary of Defense William J. Perry.
Mike and his wife, Susan, reside in Riverwoods, Illinois.