Mary Benner is an Assistant Professor of Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University, her MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and her B.S. from the University of Minnesota.  Her research explores how firms innovate and adapt to technological change.  She has studied the effects of systematic process management practices on incumbent firms’ innovation and adaptation, and is currently exploring the influence of financial markets in how established firms respond to new technologies.  She addresses these questions in several papers, with in-depth longitudinal quantitative and qualitative studies.  Her work is published in the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and elsewhere. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science and also on the Research Committee of the Business Policy and Strategy Division.  She won a Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award in 2004. Prior to her academic career, she held several management positions with Honeywell, including Manager of Systems Marketing and Branch General Manager.  Her real life experience - as a manager challenged with radical technological change at Honeywell - led to her subsequent research interests. Prior to receiving an MBA, she was also a consultant and manager with Data Resources, Inc. (DRI).