Karen Long

Karen Long is a member of Monitor Innovation, part of the Monitor Group Company. Prior to joining Monitor, she worked at Arthur D. Little for 20 years: initially conducting cancer research, then, for the past 14 years, in the consulting arena, the last seven of which were with the Technology and Innovation Management practice at Arthur D. Little.

During her tenure, Karen has been involved in organic growth strategies and platform-based new business development, acquisition, diversification, technology management, and marketing effectiveness projects for clients in the healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, automotive, chemicals, renewable energy, and plastics industries. She spearheaded several of multi-client benchmarking programs and ethnographic research. Her recent case work has involved: franchise expansion strategy for a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, product portfolio building strategy for a major medical device manufacturer, a benchmark on innovation and technology adoption at the healthcare provider level, a commercialization strategy for an electric motor manufacturer, a due diligence evaluation of a major equipment manufacturer and a diversification strategy for an oil and gas company through a detailed profile of the oil and gas value chain

She is a contributing author to the book, 101 Innovation Breakthroughs.  Karen holds a B.S. from Bates College with a major in Biology.