The University of Texas at Austin
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Tim RuefliDaniel B. Stuart Centennial Professor in the Application of Computers to Business and ManagementH. Timothy "Tim" Harkins Centennial Professor in Business Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management Frank C. Erwin Jr. Centennial Research Fellow, IC2 Institute Research Fellow of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University M.S., Carnegie Institute of Technology B.A., Wesleyan University |
Dr. Tim Ruefli’s area of research, teaching and consulting includes high technology strategic management, information systems, management science and microeconomics. He has published two books and numerous articles, which have appeared in leading academic and practitioner journals in the U.S., Europe and Japan, and is author of a number of monographs and chapters in books.
Dr. Ruefli has designed and taught executive programs for such diverse companies as Dell, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Axalto, Lockheed Martin Aerospace and Essilor of America. Prior to joining the University of Texas, he has been a faculty member at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of British Columbia, and is a member of the Extended Faculty of Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas at the Instituto Technológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico.
In the past two years he has received the McCombs School Majahan Award for Excellence in Executive Education, the MBA Applause award for elective teaching and a nomination for Outstanding MBA Core Professor. He was the founding Associate Director of the IC2 Institute and is a four-time award-winning teacher in the Institute’s Master of Science degree program in Commercializing Science and Technology.
Dr. Ruefli has been consultant on strategic management and management science to numerous private and public sector organizations and is an advisor to McKinsey & Company.

