Mason A. Carpenter (Ph.D., 1997, UT Austin) is the M. Keith Weikel Professor of Leadership in UW Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business (WI, USA).  His research in strategic management concerns corporate governance, top management teams, social networks, and the strategic management of global startups, and is published widely in leading management and strategy journals.  He is also author of numerous books used in leading undergraduate, MBA, and educutive education courses around the world.  He is Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review, and serves on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal.  At UW he is responsible for the undergraduate, MBA, and ExecMBA courses in business, corporate, and global strategy.  Among others, he has also advised the top management teams and business unit leaders in the areas of strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategic change for Fiskars, SABMiller, GE, Harley Davidson, Rockwell International, Vivendi, Kerry Ingredients, Covance, Danisco, Badger Meter, and Banta.  His teaching accomplishments include MBA Professor of the Year, notoriety as one of the two most popular professors in several BusinessWeek MBA program polls, the Larson Excellence in Teaching award from the School of Business and, most recently, a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He also works to integrate experiential and behavioral perspectives of strategic management into the classroom through positions on the BPS and SMS Executive Committees, Doctoral and New Faculty BPS consortia, and the widely-used BPS Strategy Teaching Toolkit.