Earlier this week, David A. Thomas assumed the duties of dean of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Thomas, who will officially retire from the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty on October 1st, is an expert in organizational behavior and strategic human resource management. His research focuses on issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change.
Before his appointment at McDonough, Thomas directed the HBS Organizational Business Unit and served as senior associate dean and director of faculty recruitment. In addition to these responsibilities, he also led HBS’s required first-year MBA course, Leadership and Organizational Behavior, and held the faculty chair for several executive education programs. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 1990, Thomas was an assistant professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
In a video to the McDonough community, Thomas expressed his excitement about his new role and his commitment to the process of discovery in the classroom. “We want to have our students come through and feel as if they have been transformed,” he said. “The culture that I want us to build is one that I hope will be defined by inclusion, collaboration, innovation and respect.”
Growing up the child of working-class parents in a segregated community, Thomas attributes his success to the fact that he had tremendous opportunities to study in great places. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in administrative sciences and Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Yale and a Master of Arts in organizational psychology from Columbia. He adds that he is passionate about his family, about public education and about finding ways that business can be part of the solution to some of society’s greatest problems.
Thomas succeeds outgoing McDonough Dean George Daly, who retired after leading the school for six years.
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