Professor Dorf researches and teaches entrepreneurship, innovation management, management of non-profits, new venture management, venture capital management, and technology policy and technology management. He is a consultant in engineering project development, commercialization, innovation,management and new business ventures. He teaches courses in New and Small Business Ventures, and Sustainable and Responsible Business.

Professor Dorf has authored more than 30 books, including his latest, Technology Ventures: From Ideas to Enterprise (McGraw-Hill, second edition, 2006), co-authored with Prof. Thomas Byers of Stanford University. The textbook, which is used in the Graduate School of Management’s New Business Ventures course, is the first to thoroughly examine a global phenomenon known as "technology entrepreneurship." Now in its second edition, this book integrates the most valuable entrepreneurship and technology management theories from some of the world’s leading scholars and educators with current examples of new technologies and an extensive suite of media resources. Dorf and Byers's comprehensive collection of action-oriented concepts and applications provides both students and professionals with the tools necessary for success in starting and growing a technology enterprise.