Jim Utterback is David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation and Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James Utterback studies the process of technological innovation, and factors that influence innovation, including organizational behavior, corporate strategy and government policy. His book, Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 1996), focuses on how innovations enter an industry, how mainstream firms respond, and how new and old players wrestle for dominance over time. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and received his Ph.D. in Industrial Management from MIT.