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Professor Katz teaches a Seminar in High Technology Strategy in the international arena. As an international telecommunications industry consultant, Dr. Katz has provided counsel to CEOs and other top management of major global telecommunications, and computer companies in the areas of business strategy, consumer/industrial marketing and general management approaches. He is currently President of Telecom Advisory Services (www.teleadvs.com), a boutique firm that advises clients in the interrelated fields of strategy and regulation. He was previously a Lead Partner at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he was a member of the firm's Leadership Team and Head of the US and Latin America Telecommunications practices. He has published three books, over twenty articles and regularly addresses industry fora. His book The Information Society: an International Perspective, focusing on the deregulation trends in the worldwide telecommunications industry was published in 1988. His second book (co-edited) Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy, addressing recent discontinuities in the telecommunications industry, was published in 2000, and translated into Japanese and Chinese. His third book The Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies to Economic Development was published in Spain in 2009. Dr. Katz's current research interests are in developing forward-looking perspectives of the industry structure of the converged telecommunications and media sectors and in studying "institutional irrational exuberance" in high technology investment. Licence in History, University of Paris-Sorbonne, 1979; Licence in Communications Sciences, University of Paris II; Maitrise in Political Science, University of Paris-Sorbonne, 1980; Maitrise in Communications Sciences, University of Paris II; MS in Communications Technology and Policy, MIT, 1981; PhD in Management and Political Science, MIT, 1985

• Fall 2009
  Communications, Internet, & Media (Master Class)
  
• Summer 2009
  Developing Strategies for High Tech Firms
  
• Fall 2008
  Developing Strategies for High Tech Firms
  
• Fall 2007
  Developing Strategies for High Tech Firms
  
• Spring 2007
  Developing Strategies for High Tech Firms
  

El proceso de privatizacion y la liberalizacion de los mercados de telecommunicaciones en America Latina In DigiWorld America Latina 2007 (2007) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz

The Economic and Social Impact of Telecommunications Output: A Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence for Spain In Intereconomics (2009) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz

The World Economic Crisis: The Return of Keynesian Economics to the New Communications Networks In Telos (2009) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz

Ultrabroadband Investment Models In Communications & Strategies (2008) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz

Telecom marriages rarely made in heaven In America's Network (2004) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz

Can Mergers Mend Industry Woes? In America's Network (2003) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz

Decentralizing Telecommunications in Latin America In Strategy + Business (1997) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz

La contribución de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones al desarrollo económico: Propuestas de America Latina a los Retos Económicos Actuales In (2009) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz

Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy In (2001) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz, Lee McKnight, Paul Vaaler

The Information Society: An International Perspective In (1988) Coauthor(s): Raul Katz