Larry Prusak

The researcher and consultant, Larry Prusak, was the founder and director of the Institute of Knowledge Management. This was a global group of member organizations focusing on advancing the practice of knowledge management through action research.

For the past twenty five years, Larry has been studying knowledge and learning in organizations. He has extensive experience in helping organizations manage their information and knowledge resources, both within the U.S. and internationally. He has worked with several U.S. and overseas government agencies and NGO’s, as well as having taught and lectured in many universities.  He is currently on the faculty of Columbia University teaching in their Information and Knowledge Strategy Program. In addition he has been the visiting scholar at Marshall School of Business. Additionally, he is the senior advisor at World Bank, NASA, and McKinsey and CO.

He has received several rewards and honors throughout his career, such as being voted one of ten most admired leaders at Knowledge Leaders in the World, Telos, 2000 . He was also honored as a Simmons College Distinguished Alumni Award, 2001 as well as an honorary Ph.D. in Information Science from Long Island University, 2003.

As a noted authority in his field, Larry has lectured and been published widely. His most recent book publications include co-editing Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (Oxford University Press, 2005), and co-authoring Storytelling in Organizations (Elsevier, 2004).

His publications also include: What’s the Big Idea(Harvard Business School Press, 2003), co-authored with Tom Davenport, Creating Value with Knowledge(Oxford University Press, 2003), co-edited with Eric Lesser, and In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work (Harvard Business School Press, 2001), co-authored with Don Cohen. This was voted one of the ten best business books of the year by Harvard Business Review, 2003