Lee Fleming is at UC Berkeley in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in engineering and Management of Organizations in the Haas School of Business. His latest work provides a causal model of science and technology knowledge spillovers, a longitudinal and field-wide analysis of image duplication fraud in Alzheimer’s research, evidence for the value of government investment in research, and a linked database of inventors and scientists that illustrates how Pasteur Quadrant Researchers (PQRs) provide increased novelty and impact across both technology and science. His dissertation developed theories of invention as recombinant search processes across complex spaces.
Dr. Fleming earned his bachelor’s in ECE at UC Davis, Masters in Engineering Management and Statistics, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior in Management Science, all at Stanford. Between 1998-2011 he served (ultimately) as the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business at Harvard. He founded and served at UC Berkeley as the Director of the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership from 2011-2021. He has been a professional Horn player, National cycling champion, and member of a family all of whom have (or are pursuing) Stanford engineering degrees.
