Robert DeFillippi

About Professor Robert DeFillippi

Prof. DeFillippi is a widely published author in the fields of innovation and strategy. He has held numerous visiting scholar positions throughout the world. He is past recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Lucca, Italy. He is the past recipient of the Sawyer Business School Dean’s Research Award (2015). His university service includes chairing the Management Department., the Strategy and International Business Department, the Promotion, Tenure and Review Committee, Graduate Program Committee, Center for Innovation and Change Leadership. He had also served as a member of those committees and more as well as task forces. His academic service includes an extensive amount of service as an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous academic journals.

Employment History

• Suffolk University
• Full Professor

• Erasmus Mundus Fellowship to Polytechnico di Milano
• Visiting Scholar

• Advanced Institute of Management, Imperial College of London and Sussex University
• International Visiting Fellow

• Suffolk University
• Chair, Management Department

• Center for Research in Innovation Management, Sussex University
• Summer Research Fellow

• Sussex University
• Visiting Research Fellow

• Suffolk University
• Associate Professor

• City University Business School
• Visiting Professor

• City University Business School
• Visiting Senior Lecturer

• City University Business School
• Visiting Senior Lecturer

• City University Business School
• Visiting Senior Lecturer

• Suffolk University
• Assistant Professor, Management Department

• University of Hartford
• Adjunct Lecturer

• Washington State University
• Assistant Professor

• Fordham University
• Lecturer

• University of New Haven
• Adjunct Lecturer

• University of Maryland Medical School
• Research Associate

• Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
• Research Associate

Education

• PhD, Yale University
• MA, Yale University
• MPhil, Yale University
• University of Maryland
• BA, Northeastern University

Awards & Honors

• 2016 - Fulbright Specialist grant for IMT School for Advanced Study Lucca, Italy
• 2015 - Fulbright Specialist Roster
• 2015 - Dean's Award for Outstanding Research
• 2015 - Advisory Board, Master of Design in Design Innovation
• 2013 - Visiting Scholar
• 2013 - Visiting Scholar
• 2013 - Scientific Committee
• 2012 - Research Grants Council Reviewer appointment
• 2010 - Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant
• 2010 - Best Paper finalist
• 2009 - Advisory Board appointment to European Commission Research Program