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Dr. Henry Birdseye Weil

Senior Lecturer

Primary DLC

MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Room: E62-423
(617) 258-6101
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/henry-b-weil

Assistant

Cindy Pham
(617) 253-6621
phamcl@mit.edu

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Asia
Aviation (Aircraft, Airlines)
Banking (Banking Management)
Bermuda
Business Process Modeling (Nonlinear Dynamics, System Dynamics)
Capital Budgeting
Competition
Consumer Behavior
Corporate Strategy and Policy (Alliances, Competitive Strategy, Privatization, Strategic Management and Planning, Strategy)
Credit Cards
Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce)
Electronic Media
Energy
Environment
Europe
European Union
Financial Services
Gas
High Technology
Hong Kong
Information Technology (Convergence, Digitalization, eBusiness, Internet Telephony, Technology Strategy, Wi-Fi, Wireless Communication)
Insurance
International Management (Globalization International Entrepreneurship, International Corporate Strategy)
Internet
Lead Users
Management of Technology (Technology Strategy)
Microeconomics
IT Infrastructure
Oil
Ethanol
Personal Finance
Retirement Planning
Research and Development
Service
Simulation
Start-Ups
Technological Innovation/Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurial Management, Entrepreneurship/New Ventures, Innovation, Technological Innovation)
Telecommunications
Trust-Based Marketing
Behavioral and Policy Sciences (BPS)

Research Summary

Henry Weil’s research focuses on competition in technology-intensive industries such as financial services, telecommunications, IT, media, transportation, and energy.. It illuminates the effects of management policies, technology developments, industry structure, and regulation on corporate competitiveness and the behavior of markets. He has studied commoditization, innovation, and value chain dynamics in many industries.

Weil currently is currently looking at the commoditization of air transportation, telecommunications services, and refined petroleum products. Weil uses computer simulation modeling to analyze the dynamics of market development, competition and long-term profitability.

Previously, Dr. Weil was president and CEO of Pugh-Roberts Associates, a Cambridge-based management consulting firm.

Recent Work

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