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Jon Fjeld

Professor of the Practice of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
A105F Fuqua School, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Jon Fjeld serves as the Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative at Duke University. The I&E initiative is a university-wide effort to stimulate and teach innovation and entrepreneurship to students, faculty and staff across the university.

He has been teaching entrepreneurship and strategy, and leading the entrepreneurship efforts at Fuqua since 2005.

Before returning to academia, he spent over twenty years in marketing, engineering and general management in start-ups and public companies.

From December, 2000, until July, 2004, he served as vice president of engineering for Align Technology in Santa Clara, CA. Between 1995 and 2000, he served as CEO of two RTP venture backed firms: Geomagic, a 3D software company and NetEdge Systems, a data networking equipment company. Prior to that, Fjeld spent 13 years at IBM, where he served in a number of management and executive positions within the networking and software business units. He began his professional career as an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Duke University.

Fjeld holds a Ph.D. and MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto, an MBA from Duke University, an MS in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Bishop's University.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of the Practice of Business Administration · 2016 - Present Fuqua School of Business
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Philosophy · 2018 - Present Philosophy, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship · 2018 - Present Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University Initiatives & Academic Support Units

In the News


Published April 11, 2018
Jon Fjeld Named Interim Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Published September 30, 2015
B-schools target women
Published March 13, 2014
Mixing the Arts with Entrepreneurship

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Recent Publications


Entrepreneurs and the Truth

Journal Article Harvard Business Review · July 2021 Link to item Cite

Coherence between Firm Innovation Strategy and Structuring Innovation Projects: A Framework

Journal Article Academy of Management Proceedings · August 1, 2019 Full text Cite

How to Test Your Assumptions

Journal Article MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW · December 1, 2018 Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Organizing the Firm for Innovation: A Bridge Between Innovation Strategy and Implementation

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2020

Triangle Venture Alliance

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC IDEA · 2017 - 2019

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Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University · 1990 M.B.A.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 1983 M.S.
University of Toronto (Canada) · 1977 Ph.D.
Bishop's University (Canada) · 1973 B.A.