Upper echelons: Donald Hambrick on executives and strategy

Abstract

Executive Overview This is the fourth contribution to the Crosstalk series, a collaboration between The Executive and European Management Journal created to encourage dialogue and exchange of ideas among leading management scholars in North America and Europe. Crosstalk spans the two journals, and the content presented in each journal complements, rather than duplicates, that of the other. In this Crosstalk, Donald Hambrick from the U.S. and Andrew Pettigrew from the U.K. discuss their contributions to the field of strategic leadership, as well as their thoughts on future research needs. Donald C. Hambrick is (he Samuel Bronfman Professor of Democratic Business Enterprise at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. In 2002, he will join the faculty of his doctoral alma mater, Pennsylvania State University, as the Smeal Chair in Management. Dr. Hambrick also has a BS from the University of Colorado and an MBA from Harvard University. An internationally recognized scholar in the field of top ma...