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Geoffrey Parker is is a partner at Emeraldwise, Professor of Management Science at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, Director of the Tulane Energy Institute, and a visiting research scientist at MIT. Geoff's research focuses on distributed product development and the economics of platform design and pricing. He has published widely, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Management Science. Geoff received his Ph.D. in Management Science from the MIT Sloan School of Management, M.S. in Electrical Engineering in the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. Formerly an electrical engineer and financial analyst at GE, Geoff completed the General Electric Company Financial Management Training Program.

His publications include:

• "Integration Decisions when Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Distributing Knowledge Work, " Production and Operations Management, forthcoming, with E.G. Anderson. 
• "Platform Envelopment," Strategic Management Journal, 2011, with T. Eisenmann and M. Van Alstyne.
• "Putting It Together: How to Succeed in Distributed Product Development," MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2011, with Jason Amaral and Edward G. Anderson Jr.
• "Evaluating System Dynamics Models of Risky Projects Using Decision Trees: Alternative Energy Projects as an Illustrative Example," System Dynamics Review, 2010, with B. Tan, E. Anderson, and J. Dyer.
• "Six Challenges in Platform Licensing and Open Innovation," Communications & Strategies, 2009, with M. Van Alstyne.
• "Prevent Disasters in Design Outsourcing," Harvard Business Review, September 2008, with Jason Amaral.
• "Strategies for Two-Sided Markets," Harvard Business Review, 2006, with T. Eisenmann and M. Van Alstyne.
• "Two-Sided Network Effects: A Theory of Information Product Design," Management Science, 2005, with M. Van Alstyne.
• "Winner Take All: Competition, Strategy, and the Structure of Returns in the Internet Economy," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2005, with T. Noe.
• "The Effect of Learning on the Make/Buy Decision," Production and Operations Management, 2002, with E.G. Anderson.
• "From Buyer to Integrator: The Transformation of the Supply Chain Manager in the Vertically Disintegrating Firm," Production and Operations Management, 2002, with E.G. Anderson.
• "Upstream Volatility in the Supply Chain: The Machine Tool Industry as a Case Study," Production and Operations Management, 2000, with E.G. Anderson, Jr. and C. Fine.

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