Matt Marx is associate professor of strategy and innovation at the Boston University Questrom School of Business and was previously associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies the mobility of knowledge workers as well as the commercialization and diffusion of new technologies.

He has published extensively on the impact of employee noncompete agreements and has testified frequently on behalf of reform efforts. His work has been recognized with a Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship and the INFORMS award for best innovation and entrepreneurship article published in Management Science and Organization Science during 2009.

Professor Marx previously worked as a software engineer and an executive at technology startups SpeechWorks and Tellme Networks, where he received six patents. He holds a BS in symbolic systems from Stanford University, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab, and an MBA as well as a doctoral degree from Harvard Business School.