Professor Cusumano specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in computer software as well as automobiles and consumer electronics.
During 2016–17, he was on leave as Special Vice President and Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiatives at Tokyo University of Science, where he founded the Tokyo Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center and designed a new mid-career Management of Technology curriculum as well as a new business school that merged the Graduate School of Innovation and the School of Management.
He has consulted and lectured for approximately 100 organizations and is currently a director of two publicly listed companies: Orix Corporation in Japan and Ferratum Group in Europe.
He is a former director of Patni Computer Systems in India (sold in 2011 for $1.2 billion) and Fixstars Corporation, a Japanese developer of high-performance software applications.
He was recently a director of Zylotech, a predictive analytics company operating out of Cambridge, MA.