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Clifford Darden, DBA

Emeritus Professor of Organizational Theory and Management
Graziadio Business School

Biography

Dr. Clifford E. ("Clif") Darden is an emeritus professor at Graziadio, where he has taught executive and graduate-level courses in Organization Theory and Strategic Management since 1984. In 1993, his teaching abilities earned him the honor of being named a Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Fellow.

Dr. Darden is the author of 34 case studies, monographs, and book chapters in organization and management. He is a past president of the Western Casewriters Association and has served in consulting and executive development capacities for various domestic and international organizations.

Active in the international management education arena, he has served as a visiting professor in the Doctor of Management in Organization Development program at Assumption University of Thailand in 2006 and 2007; a visiting professor in the Executive MBA Program at Wuhan University, the People’s Republic of China in 2004 and 2005; a visiting Lecturer in case research and development at the National Institute of Public Administration in Malaysia between 2001 and 2003; and a visiting professor in Organizational and Management Case Research at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (the National University of Malaysia) during the summer of 2001.

Dr. Darden earned his BS, magna cum laude, at the University of Southern California, where he was a University Scholar, the recipient of the Hamilton Award as "Outstanding Graduate in Business” and an inductee into Life Membership in the national business honor society; Beta Gamma Sigma. He obtained his MBA and DBA degrees from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Dwight D. Eisenhower Fellow during his MBA studies, and a Whitney M. Young and W. E. B. DuBois Fellow as a doctoral student. From 1995 through 2000, Dr. Darden served a six-year term as a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers Visiting Committee for the Graduate Business School. This appointed body advises the senior governing board, the President, and Fellows of Harvard College on matters concerning the Harvard Business School’s strategic initiatives and operational status.

Education

  • Harvard University, The Doctor of Business Administration
    Special Field: Organization Behavior/Organization Theory, Graduate School of Business Administration , 1982
  • Harvard University, Master of Business Administration
    Concentration: General Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1969

  • The University of Southern California
    Bachelor of Science, Major: Business Administration

 

1992 - 1993: Case Review Panel, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice Journal

1969 - present: Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honor Society (life membership) 1968 - 1969: The Century Club (honor society), Harvard Business School.

"Maxim Systems, Inc.," The Journal of Applied Case Research (in print). [Also in The 1992 Proceedings of the Western Casewriters Association.]

"The ZX Software Development Group," in P. F. Buller and R. S. Schuler (authors), Managing Organizations and People, (Cincinnati: South-Western), 2000.

"American Health Concepts, Inc.," The Journal of Applied Case Research, Vol.1, No. 1, 1997, pp. 73-86.

"Qwik Paint Centers, Inc. (B)," in Thomas Cummings and Christopher Worley (authors), Organization Development and Change, (San Francisco: West Publishing), 1997.

"Qwik Paint Centers, Inc. (A)," in Wright, Pringle, and Kroll (authors), Strategic Management: Text and Cases, (New York: Allyn and Bacon), 2nd edition, 1993

"Amalgamated Financial Group, Inc.," in The 1993 Proceedings of the Western Case- writers Association.

"An On-Site Assessment of the Nigerian Management Development Market," 1982. [Presented to the Dean, Atlanta University Graduate School of Business.]