Albert A. Vicere
Teaching Professor, Program Director, Program Director, Professor of Management and Organization
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 389 Business Building
Phone Number
814-667-3137
Email Address
aav1@psu.edu
Albert A. Vicere
Teaching Professor, Program Director, Program Director, Professor of Management and Organization
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 389 Business Building
Phone Number
814-667-3137
Email Address
aav1@psu.edu
Dr. Albert A. Vicere is Teaching Professor of Business Administration at the Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University. Recipient of numerous MBA teaching awards for his courses on strategic leadership, he has served in various leadership roles for the Smeal College including Associate Dean for Executive Education, Director of the Institute for the Study of Organizational Effectiveness, and Faculty Director of the Executive MBA Program and the Master’s in Strategic Management and Executive Leadership Program.
In addition to his duties at Penn State, he is President of Vicere Associates Inc., a consulting firm that has worked with major organizations in over forty countries to help them address issues in strategy and leadership development. The firm’s clients have included 3M, AMD, American Express, the American Red Cross, Anheuser-Busch, ARAMARK, AT&T, BASF AG, Boeing, BP, British Airways, Cisco, Continental AG, Daimler-Benz, Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak, Ecolab, LM Ericsson, Exelon, First Data, Four Seasons, Hallmark, Henkel KGaA, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kraft, The Limited, McDonald's, Merck, Motorola, National Australia Group, National Health Service (UK), Petron (Philippines), PwC, Rockwell Automation, Samsung, Saudi Aramco, Schering-Plough, Scudder Kemper Investments, Unisys, UNIVAR, U.S. Steel, and Western Union.
Dr. Vicere holds bachelors, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the Pennsylvania State University. He has published more than ninety articles and professional papers in leading journals including Organizational Dynamics, Planning Review, Human Resource Planning, The Journal of Management Development, and Adult Education Quarterly. His books include Leadership by Design (Harvard Business School Press) and The Many Facets of Leadership (FT Prentice-Hall).
He has been profiled as a thought leader in executive and leadership development by the journal Business Horizons and his articles have been honored with two Literati Club Awards for Excellence. He is a recipient of the Institute for Management Studies’ Distinguished Faculty Award and his landmark article, Leadership in the Networked Economy, was awarded the Human Resource Planning Society’s 2003 Walker Prize as article of the year. He also was profiled among the ten top leadership development coaches in Marshall Goldsmith’s book, The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching (John Wiley & Sons).
Active in numerous professional and academic organizations, Dr. Vicere serves on the Board of Directors for the Jana Marie Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in memory of his daughter and committed to helping adolescents, their families, and their communities deal with issues related to mental health and suicide prevention. He also serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Management Development (UK), and on the Board of Directors for Strategia Analytics Inc., a strategy and culture assessment firm based in Tucson, AZ.
Education
D ED, Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 1983
MED, Counselor Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 1979
BA, Advertising, The Pennsylvania State University, 1975
Courses Taught
BA 865 – Strat Ldrship (3)
Presents a senior executive perspective on key opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders. B A 565 Strategic Leadership (1-3)This course presents a CEO's perspective on the key opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders as they seek to adapt themselves and their organizations to the evolving business environment.
BA 597 – Special Topics (1)
Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.
BA 565 – Strat Ldrship (1)
This course presents a senior executive perspective on the key opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders. Course content is based on extensive research on the experiences of senior leaders from major organizations around the world. The lessons from these experiences form the backbone of a series of discussions on the changing context for setting strategy and leading organizations in an evolving business environment. Students who complete the course will demonstrate the ability to think strategically about organizational issues and challenges, develop effective strategies for organizational performance and success, and shape organizational cultures that facilitate strategy implementation and organizational change.
B A 597B – Strategic Leadership (1)
This course presents a C-level perspective on the key opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders as they seek to adapt themselves and their organizations to today's global business environment. Course content is based on extensive research and
BA 597B – **Special Topics** (1)
MGMT 596 – Individual Studies (1)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
B A 565 – Strategic Leadership (99.9)
Presents a senior executive perspective on key opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders.
B A 597F – Strategic Leadership Independent Study (3)
Critical analysis of "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "The Innovator's Solution".Investigation of whether the theory applies to health care and medical devices. Recommendations about possible approaches to strategy to stay innovative.
B A 596 (99.9)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
B A 597C (1)
This course presents a CEO's perspective on the key opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders as they seek to adapt themselves and their organizations to the evolving business enviroment.
B A 597D (1)
Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.
MGMT 597K (1)
Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
B A 598A (1)
DESIGNED TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH NECESSARY SKILLS TO APPLY P.S.U. COMPUTER CAPABILITIES TO GRADUATE BUSINESS COURSES AND PROVIDE SKILLS WHICH WILL APPLY TO GRADUATE RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS. PREREQUISITE: ADMISSION TO THE MBA PROGRAM.
Selected Publications
a series of 18 bi-monthly columns on strategy and leadership for Scripps-Howard News Service
Reprinted from Human Resource Planning, 2002.
Winner 2003 Walker Prize as best article for 2002
Literati Club Award for Excellence 1998
reprinted from Human Resource Planning, 1990
Literati Club Award for Excellence 1992
Reprinted from Management Review, 1985.
Reprinted in Creativity: The Art and Science of Business Management, ed. A. D. Timpe (New York: Facts on File Publications, 1987), 152-155.
Research Impact and Media Mention
Editorships
Occasional Reviewer
Dushkin Publishing Group