Expertise
- Business Strategy
- Top Management Teamwork
- Organizational Design
- Organizational Learning for Strategic Renewal
- Competitive Strategy
Roderick E. White is a Professor Emeritus of General Management at Ivey Business School. Since joining the school’s General Management group in 1979, he taught Business Policy and Strategic Management at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels. He was a visiting professor at INSEAD during 1996. Rod earned his BA in Honors Business from Western University, and an MBA and DBA from Harvard University.
His research interests include the functioning of top management teams and questions of business strategy-organization. Currently, he is exploring how evolutionary forces affect interesting business behaviours. He received the Academy of Management Review Decade Award for the article, An Organizational Learning Framework: From Intuition to Institutions. He served as Ivey's Associate Dean - Faculty Development and Research from 2009 to 2014. Rod has consulted for numerous organizations. He has served on the board of Sandvik Canada Ltd., Biotron Advisory Board (Western) and the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal.
Teaching
- Ivey Field Project (HBA)
- Strategic Analysis and Action (MBA)
- Corporate Strategy (MBA)
- Foundations of Management Thought (PhD)
Education
- BA (Hons Bus) Western
- MBA, Harvard
- DBA, Harvard
Experience
- Visiting Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
- Research Associate/Assistant, Harvard Business School
- Research Associate, Ivey Business School