JAMES O’TOOLE is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, and Founding Director of the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership. At USC he held the University Associates’ Chair of Management, served as Executive Director of the Leadership Institute, and edited New Management magazine.
O’Toole received his doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was Chairman of the Task Force on Work in America and Director of Field Investigations for the Commission on Campus Unrest during the Nixon administration. He served on the Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was editor of The American Oxonian magazine, and is currently a contributing editor to Strategy+ magazine. He has been Executive Vice President, and later the Mortimer J. Adler Senior Fellow, at the Aspen Institute, and Chairman of the Booz/Allen/Hamilton Strategic Leadership Center. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
O’Toole’s research and writings have mainly been in the areas of leadership, ethics, and corporate culture. Among his nineteen books, Vanguard Management was chosen as “One of the best business and economics books of the year” by the editors of Business Week. He has won a Mitchell Prize for a paper on economic growth policy, named one of the “100 most influential people in business ethics” by the editors of Ethisphere, and one of “the top 100 thought leaders on leadership” by Leadership Excellence magazine.
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