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Spotlight: Meet Dr David A Thomas
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Dr.
David A. Thomas is a native of Kansas
City Mo who is currently a Professor
of Business Administration at Harvard
Graduate School of Business Administration.
David Thomas
is a recognized authority on mentoring,
executive development and the challenges
of creating and effectively managing
a diverse workforce. He is author
of over 40 articles and case studies
on these topics. His research has
appeared in leading academic journals
and practitioner oriented periodicals.
He is the 1998 recipient of the
Executive Development Roundtable’s
Marion Gislason Award for Contributions
to Executive Development Theory
and Practice.
He is co-author
of the Best Selling Harvard Business
Review article “Making Differences
Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing
Diversity.” His most recent
book Breaking Through: The Making
of Minority Executives in Corporate
America has met with critical acclaim
in reviews by academics and journalists,
and is the 2001 recipient of the
Academy of Management's George R.
Terry Book Award for outstanding
contribution to the advancement
of management knowledge. It explores
the career advancement and development
of minority executives in large
multinational corporations.
Professor Thomas
is Course Head for the Harvard Business
School’s required first-year
MBA course, Leadership and Organizational
Behavior; and the faculty chair
for the HBS Executive Education
program, Strategic Human Resource
Management. For seven years, he
taught and developed materials for
the popular second-year elective
course, Self-Assessment and Career
Development. He is a frequent presenter
in executive education programs
as well as a consultant to private
sector corporations, government
agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
Professor Thomas
received his Bachelor of Arts (1978),
Master of Philosophy (1984) and
Doctor of Philosophy (1986) degrees
from Yale University. He also holds
a Master of Arts (1981) in Organizational
Psychology from Columbia University.
Prior to joining
the faculty of the Harvard Business
School, David was on the faculty
of the Wharton School of Finance.
He is a member of the Academy of
Management, National Training Laboratories
and the International Society for
the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.
Purchase his book Breaking Through:
The Making of Minority Executives
in Corporate America is available
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