Leading Management Strategist To Join Faculty In Smeal College

Donald Hambrick, one of the world's top management strategists, will join Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration as the new Smeal Chair in Management.

"Dr. Hambrick is among the foremost leaders in strategic management in the world. We are privileged that he will become a member of the Smeal faculty," says Judy Olian, Dean of Smeal College.

Hambrick is currently the Samuel Bronfman Professor of Democratic Business Enterprise at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

"The faculty, doctoral students, and staff of the Department of Management and Organization are delighted that Don will be joining the department as Smeal Chair. Don began his career in strategic management with a Ph.D. in our department and went on to become the most renowned graduate of our doctoral program," says Linda K. Treviño, professor of organizational behavior and Chair of the Department of Management and Organization.

Hambrick earned his Ph.D. from Penn State in 1979 and holds degrees from the University of Colorado (B.S.) and Harvard University (M.B.A.).

"My wife Peg and I have glorious feelings about 'going home'--where we met, married, and bought our first house. More importantly, though, Smeal College is very much on the move, and I'm excited about playing a role in its continued progress. The Department of Management and Organization is first-rate and houses some of my long-term friends and collaborators," says Hambrick.

Hambrick is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books on the topics of strategy formulation, strategy implementation, executive staffing and incentives, and the composition and processes of top management teams. Among his works is "Top Management Teams: Key to Strategic Success," which won the award for best article in California Management Review. His recent book, Navigating Change: How CEOs, Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation , presents leading-edge thinking for executives who are embarking on corporate change initiatives. Another recent book, Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations , is extensively used by scholars of executive leadership. He also conducted the widely-noted worldwide study of executive leadership, Reinventing the CEO .

He is also an active consultant and instructor in corporate executive education programs. His recent clients have included Pfizer, IBM, General Electric, McKinsey, General Motors, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, Philips, Morgan Stanley, Merck, ARAMARK, Pepsico, the New York Times, Bestfoods, RIA Group, Dow Jones, and Thomson Corporation.

He is an acknowledged leader in his field, serving as President of the prestigious, 10,000-member Academy of Management in 1992-93. He also has served on the board of directors of the Strategic Management Society and on the editorial boards of almost all the major scholarly journals in his field, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Dynamics, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal .

At Columbia, he teaches courses in strategy, top management processes, and executive leadership. Highly regarded by students, he has won all three of the School's major honors for teaching: the Singhvi Award for outstanding teaching in the MBA Program, the Dean's Award for best teacher in the MBA core, and the Chandler Award in the Executive MBA Program.