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Corporate Turnaround Expert to Join CSB Faculty
1/27/2009
 John O. Whitney, former professor of management and executive director of the Deming Center for Quality Management at Columbia Business School, has joined the Cameron School of Business faculty. Whitney will serve as interim holder of the Burnett Family Distinguished Chair in Leadership.
Along with his teaching experience, Whitney brings to UST an entrepreneurial legacy and a history of turning around businesses in challenging economic times. Whitney first visited campus to deliver the 2006 President’s lecture entitled, “Market-based Ethics in Business, Government and Society.” The talk coincided with the reprinting of his book, “The Economics of Trust,” 1995. His first book, “Taking Charge: A Management Guide to Turnarounds and Troubled Companies,” 1987, has been characterized as a “Bible” in the turnaround business. His latest book, “Power Plays, Shakespeare’s Lessons on Leadership and Management,” 2000, co-authored by Tina Packer, grew out of one of his former courses, “In Search of the Perfect Prince.” This course was one of Columbia’s most popular electives. Whitney is currently teaching an MBA course, Seminar in Strategic Management.
“John will promote the development of leadership potential among students and other constituents,” said UST President Dr. Robert Ivany. “This endowed chair, a $2.6 million gift from the Notsew Orm Sands Foundation, will prepare graduates for leadership positions in the public, private and nonprofit sectors and for the ethical challenges they will encounter throughout their career. We’re fortunate to have John as a faculty member.”
Whitney joined the faculty at Columbia Business School in 1986. Prior academic experience includes five years at the Harvard Business School where he taught Creative Marketing Strategy, was chairman of the Written Analysis of Cases course, and was Associate Dean from 1970 to 1972. Much of Whitney’s experience, however, has been in the business world. He was an entrepreneur in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he founded several businesses from 1955 to 1967, when he joined Harvard. After leaving Harvard he became president of the Pathmark Division of Supermarkets General Corporation, where he led his first business turnaround from 1972 to 1977. Subsequently, he has been chairman or CEO of other turnaround companies.
Whitney received the 1988 Singhvi Prize for Teaching Excellence at the Columbia Business School, which he again won in 1996. He won the Dean’s Award for Innovation in the Curriculum in 2003. In 1993 he was named by Business Week’s guide to The Best Business Schools as “Columbia Business School’s most outstanding professor.” Business Week also listed him as one of the 10 most sought-after professors in corporate executive education.
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