Mark P. Rice is the Dean of the School of Business at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has previously held leadership and faculty roles at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Olin College of Engineering and at Babson College.

He is co-author of Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts, which was published by Harvard Business School. His research on corporate innovation and entrepreneurship has been published widely – in academic and practitioner journals including Organization Science, R&D Management, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, IEEE Engineering Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, and California Management Review. Rice consults and teaches in the areas of innovation management, technology strategy, new business incubation and entrepreneurship.

Dean Rice previously served as director of the nationally recognized RPI Incubator Program and as co-founder and director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dean Rice has been a director and chairman of the National Business Incubation Association, which honored him in 1998 with its Founder's Award. With Dr. Jana Matthews, he co-authored Growing New Ventures -- Creating New Jobs: Principles and Practices of Successful Business Incubation.

Before returning to academia, Dean Rice was an investment broker and the director of mergers and acquisitions for a business brokerage firm. Early in his career, Rice co-founded and led Power Kinetics, Inc., a solar energy R&D and manufacturing company.

In 2002 Rice received the Edwin M. and Gloria W. Appel Entrepreneurship in Education Prize. Dr. Rice holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.