A former Army officer, Professor Anderson has also worked as an independent computer consultant, and an MIS manager and Assistant to the President of a large nonprofit organization andan entrepreneurial start-up organization. From 1987 - 1993 he was an assistant professor at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. From 1993-2001, he was an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, where he was the director of Tuck's Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, and faculty director of its executive program Strategies for B2B E-Commerce. He currently teaches courses in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and the strategic management of innovation, and has written over 50 original cases and notes for these classes.

His research interests include the formation of entrepreneurial firms, managing growth, venture capital dynamics, processes of technological evolution, Internet strategy, and complexity theory. Professor Anderson is on the editorial boards of four academic journals, and is also the co-editor of the May/June 1999 special issue of Organization Science on applications of complexity theory toorganizational research. He is currently chair-elect for the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management. Professor Anderson is co-author of Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readings(with Michael Tushman), published by OxfordUniversity Press in 1996, and Inside the Kaisha: Demystifying Japanese Business Behavior (with Noboru Yoshimura) published by Harvard Business School Press in 1997. Inside the Kaisha was named 1997 Booz Allen &