Specialties and Interests - management of organizational crises
- spirituality at work
- role of technology at work
Courses Taught - Works with the MGSM-SF programs and also with the Presidio World College and with MGSM faculty throughout the system on topics of mutual interest.
Research: Publications and Presentations - Managing Crises Before They Happen, with Gus Anagnos, AMACOM, New York, 2000.
- A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America: A Hard Look at Spirituality Religion and Values, with Elizabeth Denton, Jossey-Bass Publishers Inc., San Francisco, 1999.
Smart Thinking for Crazy Times: The Art of Solving the Right Problems, Barrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 1998 - The Essential Guide to Managing Corporate Crises A Step-By-Step Handbook for Surviving Major Catastrophic, with Christine M. Pearson and L. Katharine Harrington, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
- The Management of Crises and Paradoxes: Preventing the Destructive Effects of Organizations (in French), with Thierry Pauchant, H.E.C., Montreal, Canada, 1995. The Challenge of the 21st Century Managing: Technology and Ourselves in a Shrinking World, Harold A. Linstone with Ian I. Mitroff, State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, 1994
- Framebreak: The Radical Redesign of American Business, with Richard O. Mason and Christine M. Pearson, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1994
- Stakeholders of the Organizational Mind: Toward A New View of Policy Making, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1983
- Creating A Dialectical Social Science: Concepts, Methods, and Models, with R.O. Mason, D. Reidel, Amsterdam, 1982.
Professional Activities - President and Founder of Comprehensive Crisis Management
- Senior Investigator, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California, Berkeley.
- 1992-1993, President, International Society for the Systems Sciences
Degrees - University of California, Berkeley, Engineering Sciences, PhD
- University of Stockholm, Honorary Doctorate
Professional and Honorary Memberships - American Psychological Association
Biography Dr. Ian I. Mitroff is currently a University Professor at Alliant International University in San Francisco. He is also a Senior Investigator in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California Berkeley. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, School of Public Health, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. He is Professor Emeritus from the University of Southern California, where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business. He is the President of the consulting firm Comprehensive Crisis Management.
Dr. Mitroff is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline of Crisis Management. He founded and directed the USC Center for Crisis Management. Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal issues, Dr. Mitroff is the author of 26 previous books, including “A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America,” “Smart Thinking for Crazy Times,” “The Essential Guide to Managing Corporate Crisis,” “The Unbounded Mind” and “Managing Crises Before They Happen.” His PhD is in Engineering Science and the Philosophy of Social Science from U.C. Berkeley. He is a Fellow of The American Psychological Association, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The American Academy of Management. He has an honorary Ph.D. from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stockholm. He is the recipient of a gold medal from the United Kingdom Systems Society for his life-long contributions to understanding complex problems |
