Sam Stern

Sam Stern is professor and dean emeritus of education at Oregon State University. He also held the Japan Management Association Chair of Creativity Development at Tokyo Institute of Technology; taught in the MBA program at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration and the Department of Economics at Harvard; and served as a consultant for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Sam goes the distance to get to the bottom of a story, often exploring the personal, social, economic, and historic dimensions of underlying questions.

"Corporate Creativity," co-authored with Alan Robinson, captures stories of creativity, big and small, and the paths that led to their realization. Translated into eleven languages, Corporate Creativity was named “Book of the Year” by the Academy of Human Resource Management, and was a finalist in the Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton Global Best Business Book Awards.

In 2016, after 35 years at Oregon State University, Sam retired and set off on a three-month bicycle ride across the country. Along the way, he stopped to interview recipients of the Daly scholarship who lived along his route. Those interviews along with many others, a web-based survey, and archival research provide the basis for Sam's latest book, "Bernard Daly’s Promise: The Enduring Legacy of a Place-based Scholarship."