Edward B. Roberts, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Entrepreneur, investor, professor
Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1935
Place of Birth: Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Edward B. Roberts
- Edward Baer Roberts (born 1935) is a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
- He became the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology in 1974.Ed Roberts, one of the leading authorities on entrepreneurship wrote "Entrepreneurs in High Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond" on high-tech business creation and growth.
- The book won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book in Business and Management in 1991.
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- Roberts is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Chair of the Sloan School’s Management of Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship research and education programs, as well as the founder and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Dr.
- Roberts has been a co-founder, director, and/or angel investor in many emerging companies.
- He co-founded and for 20 years was a General Partner in the Zero Stage and First Stage Capital Equity Funds, venture capital funds specializing in early-stage technology firms.
- He co-founded and was CEO of Pugh-Roberts Associates, an international management consulting firm specializing in strategic planning and technology management (now a division of PA Consulting Group).
- He also co-founded and serves as a Director of Sohu.com, a leading Chinese Internet firm. He earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering, an MBA, and the world’s first Ph.D.
- in System Dynamics, all from MIT.
- He has authored more than 150 articles and 11 books, most recently Innovation: Driving Product, Process and Market Change.Professor Roberts serves on the board of advisors of Maverick Ventures Israel, a unique venture capital fund composed of private investors which invests in early growth Israeli startups.
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