Lee Fleming

Professor at University of California, Berkeley

Lee Fleming is a prominent professor at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in engineering leadership and innovation. He has been part of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) Department since Fall 2011 and currently serves as the Faculty Director of the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.

Academic Background

Bachelor's Degree: Electrical Engineering from UC Davis.
Master's Degrees: Engineering Management from Stanford University and a Master's in Statistics during his doctoral studies.
Ph.D.: Organizational Behavior from Stanford University.

Prior to his tenure at UC Berkeley, Dr. Fleming was a faculty member at Harvard Business School from 1998 to 2011, where he held several positions, culminating as the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration.

Research Interests

Dr. Fleming's research focuses on several key areas:

Innovation Strategies: Investigating how managers can enhance their organizations' chances of achieving breakthroughs through collaborative strategies and diverse technology integration.
Knowledge Flow and Entrepreneurship: Examining how social networks influence creativity and the diffusion of knowledge within regional economies.
Impact of Non-Compete Agreements: His recent work has highlighted how these agreements can lead to brain drain from states that enforce them.

He employs big data techniques to study various aspects of innovation, entrepreneurship, and science policy, contributing significantly to the understanding of technological breakthroughs and inventor mobility.