Bill Fischer is Professor Emeritus of Innovation Management; and a Senior Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management. 

An engineer by training, American and Swiss by citizenship, Fischer has lived much of his life in Asia and Europe. He has held a full professorship and endowed chair on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, served on the IMD faculty for nearly thirty years; and was President and Dean of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, for which he was awarded the Magnolia Silver Award, Shanghai’s highest award for foreigners contributing to the city’s development.

Bill has written a number of books on innovation, including: Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier has Changed the Way that Big Companies Transform (with Umberto Lago & Fang Liu); and, with Andy Boynton, The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen(2011), and Virtuoso Teams (2005). All of these books address issues of innovation, talent development, and expression in a variety of organizational settings. He is a member of Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.