Seminar on “An Exploration of Brain Science and its Potential Contributions to Strategic Management and Strategic Thinking”

Jackson is the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and the Associate Dean and Director of the Brookings Executive Education. Jackson joined the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, in 1996.  At Olin he teaches strategic management courses on innovation, management of life science, organizational strategy, and critical thinking.  At Brookings Executive Education, he teaches programs on critical thinking, strategic thinking, vision and leading change without authority, excellence in customer service, flexibility and decisiveness, execution, converting conflict to collaborative conversations, leading networks with enterprise leadership, and facilitation for tackling wicked problems.  He also developed with AACSB and teaches Leading in the Academic Enterprise®, an AACSB leadership development program for deans, associate deans, assistant deans, and administrative staff. He has received 17 teaching awards from undergraduates and executives alike and received the 2003 State of Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Jackson’s research focuses on organizations, governance, and performance. His research has twice won the Olin Award Recognizing Research That Transforms Business and is found in the leading academic journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization.  His research on the FDA has been discussed in Business Week and has led to tangible changes in the way the FDA oversees pharmaceutical manufacturing.  Jackson has engaged and impacted numerous organizations through Olin’s custom executive education programs, Olin’s Partners Program, and consulting for industries including architecture and art, chemicals, education, finance, health care, and pharmaceuticals.  He also is author or co—author of four books inducing, book Leading Change in a Web 2.1 World, published in the fall of 2010.   Jackson was a director of the publicly listed company CleanTech Biofuels from 2009 until 2012 and currently is a director of NFORMD.NET, a privately held new media company.