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John O. Whitney is Professor of Management and
Executive Director of the Deming Center for Quality Management at
Columbia Business School, which he joined in 1986. Prior academic
experience includes seven years at the Harvard Business School where he
taught Creative Marketing Strategy, was chairman of the Written Analysis
of Cases course, and was Associate Dean from 1970 to 1972.
Most of Professor Whitney's experience, however, has
been in the business world. He was an entrepreneur in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
where he founded several businesses from 1955 to 1967, when he joined
Harvard. After leaving Harvard he became president of the Pathmark
Division of Supermarkets General Corporation, where he led his first
business turnaround from 1972 to 1977. Subsequently, he has been
chair-man or CEO of other turnaround companies.
Professor Whitney is on the board of directors of the
Turner Corporation (AMEX), where he is a member of the Audit, and
Compensation and Directors' Affairs Committees. He also serves on the
board of directors of Church and Dwight Corporation, (NYSE) where he is
a member of the Compensation Committee, and Atchison Casting Corp.
(NYSE) where he is the Chairman of the Audit Committee; and serves on
the Advisory Board at Newsbank Corporation.
Professor Whitney received the Distinguished Alumnus
Award of the University of Tulsa in 1979, and was awarded the 1988
Singhvi Prize for Teaching Excellence at the Columbia Business School,
which he again won in 1996. In 1993 he was named by Business Week's
guide to The Best Business Schools as "Columbia
Business School's most outstanding professor. " He was chairman of
the Harvard Business School Club of greater New York, a member of the
Executive Council of the Harvard Business School, and was a member of
the Joint Labor Management Council in Washington, D.C. from 1975 to
1977.
Recent consulting assignments include Alcoa Corp.;
Wickes Lumber; Rodale Press; Sunstar, Inc. (Osaka, Japan); the Zimmer
Division of Bristol-Myers Squibb; the Lab Glass Division of Corning,
Inc.; Merck & Co.; W.R. Grace Corporation; The Nashua Corporation;
The IBM Corporation; IBM South Africa; IBM Brazil; John Hancock Mutual
Life Insurance; Aetna Insurance; Rhone Poulenc; Azko Nobel; Chemical
Bank (Chase); The Forum Corporation; Premier Health Alliance; The Barnes
Group, Inc.; and others. Professor Whitney's article in the June-July
1996 issue of the Harvard Business Review, "Strategic
Renewal for Business Units," has been adopted as a planning tool
for major corporations, including Alcoa and Asea Brown Boveri. He has
also written for The Wall Street Journal, CFO Magazine, The Planning
Review, The AMA Management Journal, and numerous other
business publications. His first book, Taking Charge: A Management
Guide to Turnarounds and Troubled Companies, 1987, has been
characterized as a "Bible" in the turnaround business. His
most recent book, The Trust Factor, was published by McGraw-Hill
in September 1993, and was reprinted in 1995 as The Economics
Of Trust. |
