Donald C. Hambrick
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For MBA & EMBA Students:

• Strategy Implementaion and Organizational Change Syllabus

For Researchers & Doctoral Students:

• List of Publications
• Abstracts of Recent Publications and Working Papers
• Research in Progress
• Doctoral Students Supervised
• Doctoral Seminar In Strategic Management Syllabus

For Executives:

• Publications Oriented to Executives
• Independent Consulting

Don Hambrick is the Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also Samuel Bronfman Professor Emeritus of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, where he served for 23 years. He holds degrees from the University of Colorado (B.S.), Harvard University (M.B.A.), and The Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D.).

An internationally recognized scholar in the field of top management, he 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. 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 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, Reinventing the CEO.

He is an acknowledged leader in his field, serving as President of the prestigious 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.

Don is also an active consultant and instructor in corporate executive education programs. His recent clients have included Pfizer, IBM, General Electric, Schering-Plough, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Philips, Merck, ARAMARK, Pepsico, the New York Times, McKinsey, Dow Jones, and Pearson.

Don was raised in Denver, Colorado. After military service in Vietnam, he moved East for graduate school. He now lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Peg. Their daughter, Claire, lives and works in Los Angeles. A life-long racquets enthusiast, Don plays tennis and squash regularly. He also enjoys international travel with his family. He is an avid reader of nonfiction, especially political and social commentary