Mason Andrew Carpenter

Mason A. Carpenter (MBA, CSUB, 1990, Ph.D., 1997, UT Austin) is the M. Keith Weikel Professor of Leadership in UW Madison's Wisconsin School of Business (WI, 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 author of Strategic Management: A Dynamic Perspective with co-author Gerry Sanders and published by Prentice Hall, and Principles of Management with co-authors Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan. He is Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management 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, GE, 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 BPS and SMS Executive Committees, Doctoral and New Faculty BPS consortia, and the widely-used BPS Strategy Teaching Toolkit.