Dr. Guillén: Felix Zandman Endowed Professor of International Management

Dr. Mauro F. Guillén has been appointed the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professor of International Management, effective July 1, 2003.

Dr. Guillén has been teaching at Wharton since 1996, when he joined the faculty as an assistant professor in the management department, and has held a secondary appointment in the sociology department since 1999. He became a tenured associate professor in 2000 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2003. Prior to his arrival at Wharton, he was on the faculty of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University in 1992.

Dr. Guillén's research and teaching interests include international management, organizational theory, and economic sociology. His publications have been recognized with several honors over the years, most recently with the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award from Administrative Science Quarterly. He has taught courses for Wharton's undergraduate, MBA and doctoral students including Comparative Management (undergraduate), Global Strategic Management (MBA), and Psychological and Sociological Foundations of Research in Management (doctoral). In 2002, he received the Wharton Graduate Association Teaching Award and the MBA Core Teaching Award. In 1998, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He became an Eligible Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto in 1996.

The Dr. Felix Zandman Professorship in International Management was established in 1995 with a gift from Alfred and Luella Slaner to honor Dr. Zandman. In 1962, Dr. Zandman, with the financial help of the late Alfred P. Slaner, founded Vishay Intertechnology. The company was named after Dr. Zandman's and Mr. Slaner's ancestral village in Lithuania, in memory of family members who perished in the Holocaust. The Professorship was developed to go to "an outstanding scholar and teacher who has a strong background in the management of global enterprises and can focus on issues critical to managing international corporations."