Smeal College Announces New Director For Outreach & Cooperative
Smeal College Announces New Director For Outreach & Cooperative
Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration has named Dr. Jack M. Stevens as director of Outreach & Cooperative Extension. Stevens is professor of management and organization. Stevens will be liaison for all of Smeal College's interactions with Outreach & Cooperative Extension, including: the World Campus, Continuing Education, Distance Education, Conferences and Institutes, Independent Learning and Distributed Learning. He will immediately assume his new responsibilities.
He has served as Graduate Program Officer for two different graduate degree programs at the University. In addition, he was Chair of the Public and Nonprofit Sector Division in the Academy of Management and Chair of the Section of Management Science and Policy Analysis in the American Society for Public Administration. In 1996, he was a visiting Professor in the Corporate Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan School of Business.
Stevens is a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, The American Society for Public Administration, and the Association for Policy Analysis and Management. He currently serves on the board of two journals and is an ad hoc reviewer for others. Further, he has been a consultant for and participated in federal, state, local and private sector executive development programs, served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, and was employed by the Department of Defense in Washington D.C.
Stevens' research has emphasized strategy and policy implementation, strategic management, business-government relations, managerial commitment, and information systems. He was also principal or associate investigator or project manager in multiple funded research projects representing strategic management, management information systems, human resource policies, and intellectual property/technology transfer topics.
He has published research in many scholarly journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Management, Public Administration Review, Policy Studies Review, and Public Productivity Review. He is also senior co-author of two books, Business-Government Relations: A Managerial and Analytic Perspective and Information Systems in Public Management. In addition he has several chapters in other annual publications and books.
His current research focuses upon the strategic dimensions of stakeholder management, a strategic perspective on corporate ethics governance, corporate subsidies, and the role of universities in intellectual property and technology transfer to business.
Steven's earned his B.A. from Penn State and an M.S. at The US Naval Postgraduate School. He received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
