David J. Teece
Academic Affiliate
(202) 518-5120
dteece@criterioneconomics.com

Professor David J. Teece is an Academic Affiliate of Criterion Economics and the Thomas W. Tusher Professor of Global Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an authority on the theory of the firm and strategic management, the economics of innovation and technological change, knowledge management, technology transfer, and antitrust economics.

Professor Teece has served as an economic, business, and financial consultant for thirty years. He founded, and led as chairman, a company that grew to become the world’s largest economic consulting firm.

Professor Teece has testified before judges, juries, arbitrators, commissions, and tribunals in the United States and abroad in landmark antitrust, intellectual property, regulatory, and products liability matters. He has also testified before Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Antitrust Division, and his work has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Professor Teece’s consulting clients have included, in matters of public record, the following companies:

• Abbott Laboratories
• ARCO
• AT&T
• Chevron
• Everest and Jennings
• Exxon
• General Electric
• General Motors
• Hughes Aircraft
• IBM
• Johnson & Johnson
• Kaiser Steel
• Nintendo
• Novell
• Oracle
• Philip Morris
• Pilkington
• Pratt and Whitney
• Prudential Insurance
• Rambus
• Recording Industry Association of America
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
• Shell Oil
• Silicon Graphics
• State Farm
• Texas Instruments
• Unilever
• Unocal

He has testified in many antitrust cases, including the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger, the Rambus and Unocal standards-setting litigation, and the following multidistrict litigation proceedings:

• Carbon Dioxide Industry Antitrust Litigation (MDL 940)
• Crude Oil Litigation (MDL 150)
• Disposable Contact Lens Litigation (MDL 1030)
• High Pressure Laminates Antitrust Litigation (MDL 1368)
• Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation (MDL 997)
• Infant Formula Antitrust Litigation (MDL 878)
• Lease Oil Antitrust Litigation (MDL 1206)

Professor Teece has also testified in some of the most consequential intellectual property litigation of the past two decades, including the Napster case on music file sharing.

Professor Teece earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University, and has also received three honorary doctorates. Professor Teece is the author of more than 200 books and articles, and is the editor of the journal Industrial & Corporate Change, published by the Oxford University Press. His most recent book is Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth (Oxford University Press 2009).

According to Science Watch, Professor Teece is the lead author on the most cited article in economics and business worldwide between 1995 and 2005. He is also one of the ten most-cited scholars in economics and business for the decade, and he has been recognized by Accenture as one of the world's top 50 business intellectuals.