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I am interested in how humans relate to each other and their environments. From this interest I work in the fields of innovation and change management, and international business and infrastructure construction. Two themes used to access the workings of these fields are human arrogance and the Faustian dilemma. While somewhat distinct, I have made extensive use of both to understand operations of management theory, architecture, and systems science.
Places that I've called home include Finland, Sweden, England, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Iowa. When the spirit is right, my preferred mode of conveyance in these places is a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
In addition to my academic and consulting pursuits, I run an active farm business in Iowa which produces corn, soybeans and cattle.
With fourteen other members of a National Research Council Congressional Commission on Business Strategies for Public Capital Investment, I am currently a joint author of a report on the appropriateness of applying private sector management practices to challenges of the public sector.
I was the principal investigator on a study leading to Energy Star Homes environmental marketing program. This program was a non-regulatory approach to environmental governance, and continues to be highly successful.
In professional organizations, I have served on the board of directors of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, and have organized symposia for the national meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I was a founding member of the European Academy of Management, and the European Institute of Technology Management. I am active in the International Finance and Trade Association, and the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.
At the New Jersey Institute of Technology, I am a professor who is cross-appointed to the New Jersey School of Architecture and School of Management. I initiated and developed the international portion of the Executive Education Program for an M.S. and M.B.A. in management, for students from companies in Northern New Jersey region. These courses include international study visits to leading world companies. I was honored with a Master Teacher award in 2001, and Robert W. Van Houten Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000. In 1998, I was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society for Collegiate Schools of Business.
At the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Helsinki Technical University, I have been a visiting professor and guest researcher, working in the Executive Ph.D. program and advising the Global Project Business Research Venture. Prior to that, I was a long term Visiting Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Stockholm, Sweden
For Bell Labs at the AT&T Corporation, I served as a research fellow in industrial ecology for two years.
"Conditions of Success: Internationalization of the Construction Industry" was the final report of a study in the building construction industry. It outlined the emerging themes of globalization in infrastructure design, production and construction. Therein the focus was on design for improved production, global efficiencies to meet local concerns and the potentials of collaboration. I initiated the project and secured funding for it along with participation of top management in sixty international firms from Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Based in four universities, the research was conducted jointly at the Institute of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics, School of Architecture at Chalmers Technical University, School of Engineering at Tokyo Metropolitan University and the New Jersey School of Architecture. The study culminated in a Stockholm Construction Symposium.
My Ph.D. in Systems Sciences, specializing in corporate planning, was granted by the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. My dissertation on "Regulation of Environmental Deterioration" explores the relationship between models of corporate planning and modes of regulatory governance.
E-mail sent to davidhawk@systemicbusiness.org should reach me.
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