Professor Carpenter is the M. Keith Weikel Professor of Leadership at the Wisconsin School of Business. He has a B.S. in Business Administration from California State University (Humboldt) and University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an M.B.A. from California State University (Bakersfield). He also completed graduate studies in enology at the University of Bordeaux, France. Before obtaining his Ph.D. in strategy at the University of Texas, Austin, he worked in banking, management consulting, and software development. His research concerns corporate governance, top management teams, and the strategic management of global firms, and is published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management. He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and the Strategic Management Journal, was voted Professor of the Year by M.B.A. students, and identified as one of the most popular professors in the BusinessWeek M.B.A. poll. He recently received the Larson Excellence in Teaching award from the School of Business, and the University of Wisconsin’s Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award.

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