TODD ZENGER

Todd Zenger is the Curt and Alisa Doman Endowed Chair in Innovation at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He also holds the University of Utah designation as a Presidential Professor. From 1990 through July of 2014, he served as a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis in the Olin Business School. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Strategy Science, one of the leading academic publications in strategy.  He also serves as Academic Director of the Goff Strategic Leadership Center, and as Executive Director of the new ION Management Science Lab, Utah. He has previously served as senior associate dean, as department (or area) chair for more than sixteen years, and as academic director of the Executive MBA and Master of Business Creation programs. He has received numerous awards for his executive MBA and professional MBA teaching. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society in 2022 and as a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2023. 

Professor Zenger completed his undergraduate degree in economics at Stanford University and his PhD in strategy and organization at UCLA.

Professor Zenger is among the world’s most cited scholars in the areas of corporate strategy, strategic leadership, and organization design. He has lectured widely on these topics to academic audiences at most of the world’s leading business schools and has published extensively in the leading academic journals in management and strategy. His research has also been featured or published in the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, BusinessWeek, New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, and the BBC.

He is author of the best-selling Harvard Business Review article, “What is the Theory of Your Firm?” which along with his book, Beyond Competitive Advantage: How to Solve the Puzzle of Sustaining Growth while Creating Value, are now widely used to teach topics on corporate strategy.