Kim Sterling Cameron (born 1946) is the William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He was formerly the dean of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He has also served as associate dean at both the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University (BYU) and in the Ross School of Business.
He graduated from Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah in 1964. He received a bachelor's degree (1970) and a master's degree (1971) from BYU. At BYU, he served as student body vice president, was a basketball player, and dated Ann Davies (who later married Mitt Romney). [1] He later went on to earn a master's degree (1976) and a Ph.D. (1978) in administrative sciences from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
After earning a masters at BYU, Cameron became a faculty member at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. After earning his degrees at Yale University, he served on the faculty in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, then directed the Organizational Studies division of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems in Boulder, Colorado. He joined the faculty in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1984.
In 1995, Cameron was appointed associate dean in the Marriott School of Management at BYU, and in 1998 he was appointed dean of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2001, he rejoined the faculty in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and served as an associate dean.
He has written or edited 15 scholarly books and been published in more than 130 academic articles.[ citation needed ] He was cited as one of the top ten scholars in organizational studies whose work has been downloaded from Google.[ citation needed ]
Cameron co-founded the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the University of Michigan, and his work in conjunction with the Center was recognized as one of the top 20 high-impact ideas of 2004 by Harvard Business Review. [2]
Among other ideas, Cameron advanced the notion that downsizing is usually not an effective business strategy because of the ways it is implemented. [3] Cameron's latest scholarly work on Positive Leadership and on developing organizational cultures of abundance reports empirical research demonstrating that positive leadership and virtuous practices in organizations lead to extraordinary performance. [4]
Cameron is married to Melinda Cummings, [5] daughter of Hollywood actor Robert Cummings. They are parents of seven children.[ citation needed ]
Cameron is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He wrote several articles for the Encyclopedia of Mormonism and served as president of the church's Ann Arbor Michigan Stake. [6] Since 2001, he has served as the patriarch in the Ann Arbor stake.
The J. Reuben Clark Law School is the law school of Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1973, the school is named after J. Reuben Clark, a former U.S. Ambassador, Undersecretary of State, and general authority of the institution's sponsoring organization, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
John Willard Marriott Sr. was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation, the parent company of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains, and food services companies. The Marriott company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington, D.C., in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to its first motel in 1957. By the time he died in 1985, the Marriott company operated 1,400 restaurants and 143 hotels and resorts worldwide, including two theme parks, earned US$4.5 billion in revenue annually with 154,600 employees. The company's interests also extended to a line of cruise ships.
Kim Bryce Clark is an American scholar, educator, and religious leader who has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2015, and was the church's seventeenth Commissioner of Church Education from 2015 to 2019. He served previously as the 15th president of Brigham Young University–Idaho from 2005 to 2015, and as the dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS) from 1995 to 2005, where he was also the George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration.
The Romney family is prominent in U.S. politics. Its family members include George W. Romney (1907–1995), the 43rd Governor of Michigan (1963–1969), and his son, Mitt Romney, who was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007), the 2012 Republican U.S. Presidential nominee, and is currently a U.S. Senator for Utah. George W. Romney's father was Gaskell Romney (1871–1955), and his mother was Anna Amelia Pratt (1876–1926). Anna's grandfather was the renowned early Latter-day Saint apostle Parley Parker Pratt.
The Marriott School of Business is the business school of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and located in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1891 and renamed in 1988 after J. Willard Marriott, founder of Marriott International, and his wife Alice following their $15 million endowment gift to the school.
Merrill Joseph Bateman is an American religious leader who was the 11th president of Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1996 to 2003. He is an emeritus general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was the LDS Church's 12th presiding bishop in 1994 and 1995. Bateman was the Sunday School General President of the LDS Church from 2003 to 2004, a member of the Church's Presidency of the Seventy from 2003 to 2007, and the president of the Provo Utah Temple from 2007 to 2010.
Ned Cromar Hill is the American National Advisory Council professor of business management and was dean of the Marriott School of Business (MSB) at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1998 to 2008. From 2011 to 2014, he served as president of the Romania Bucharest Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Lee Tom Perry is a business professor, Latter-day Saint church leader, and hymnwriter.
Alison Davis-Blake is an American academic administrator. She served as the eighth president of Bentley University. Before Bentley, she served as dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. At Ross, Davis-Blake was the school’s first female dean, and at the time of her appointment she was the highest-ranking female dean at any U.S. business school.
Weldon Johnson Taylor was an American educator who served as the first Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University (BYU). He received a B.S. from BYU in 1934, a M.S. from Harvard University in 1937, and a Ph.D. in Marketing from New York University in 1952.
William Gibb Dyer was an American educator who served as the fourth Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University (BYU). He received a B.A. from BYU in 1950, followed by a M.A. from the same institution two years later. In 1955 he earned a Ph.D. in Social psychology from the University of Wisconsin.
Henry Johnson Eyring is an American academic administrator who served as the seventeenth president of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho) from 2017 to 2023. From 2019 to 2023, he also served as an area seventy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He previously served as both the academic and advancement vice president at BYU–Idaho, as well as director of the master of business administration (MBA) program in Brigham Young University's (BYU) Marriott School of Business.
Jae R. Ballif was a provost of Brigham Young University (BYU).
The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is the business school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley Institute of Brigham Young University (BYU) is a think tank whose mission is to "lift society by preserving and strengthening its core institutions". As of 2022, the institute's director is Paul S. Edwards, who succeeded Richard N. Williams, its first director.
James R. Rasband is an American academic and religious leader who has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2019. He was previously the Academic Vice President (AVP) at Brigham Young University (BYU) from June 2017 until shortly after he was called as a general authority. He also previously served as dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCLS). He has also been the Hugh W. Colton Professor of Law.
W. Steve Albrecht is the Andersen Alumni Professor at the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University (BYU). He is a former president of the American Accounting Association and was previously president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He was also formerly an associate dean of the Marriott School of Management. Albrecht served as the mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tokyo, Japan.
Gene Wray Dalton (1928–1997) was a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School and later at Brigham Young University (BYU).
David Allred Whetten is an American organizational theorist and Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy at the Marriott School of Management at the Brigham Young University. He is known for his work on organizational identity research methodology, and organizational effectiveness.
Brigitte C. Madrian is a behavioral economist and is the ninth dean of the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University (BYU). She is the first woman to serve as dean and has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics.
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