Professor Lee Fleming joined the IEOR Dept. at UCB this Fall 2011. He teaches the engineering leadership and capstone integration courses within the Masters of Engineering curriculum His research investigates how managers can increase their organization's chances of inventing a breakthrough, through types of collaboration, the integration of scientific and empirical search strategies, and the recombination of diverse technologies. His recent work has disambiguated the U.S. patent record and demonstrated that noncompete agreements create a brain-drain from states that enforce noncompetes to states that do not. Dr. Fleming is currently on leave from his position as the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. He also serves as acting faculty director at the Fung Institute.

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