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Mason Carpenter

Mason A. Carpenter (PhD, 1997, University of Texas at Austin) is a professor and holds the M. Keith Weikel Chair in Leadership at the University of Madison–Wisconsin’s School of Business (Wisconsin, USA). He is responsible for the MBA and executive MBA courses in business, corporate, and global strategy, and the curriculum offered through Wisconsin’s Strategic Leadership Institute. His research concerns corporate governance, top management teams, social networks, and the strategic management of global startups, and is published widely in top management and strategy journals.

He is also the author of Strategic Management: A Dynamic Perspective with coauthor Gerry Sanders, published by Prentice Hall, and Principles of Management, published by Flat World Knowledge with coauthors Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan. He is associate editor of the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management and Corporate Governance area editor for Business Expert Press, and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.

Among others, he has also advised the top management teams and business unit leaders in the areas of strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategic change for Fiskars, SABMiller, General Electric, Harley-Davidson, Rockwell International, Vivendi, Kerry Ingredients, Covance, Danisco, Badger Meter, and Banta. His teaching accomplishments include MBA Professor of the Year, notoriety as one of the two most popular professors in several BusinessWeek MBA program polls, the Larson Excellence in Teaching award from the School of Business, and, most recently, a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

He also works to integrate experiential and behavioral perspectives of strategic management into the classroom through positions on the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) division of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Executive Committees, Doctoral and New Faculty BPS consortia, and the widely used BPS Strategy Teaching Toolkit.

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An Executive's Primer on the Strategy of Social Networks

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