Clifford Darden, DBA
Biography
Professor 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. He has served in consulting and executive development capacities for a variety of domestic and international organizations.
Active in the international management education arena, some of the areas in which he has served include as a visiting professor in the Doctor of Management in Organization Development Program at Assumption University of Thailand (2006 and 2007); as a visiting professor in the Executive MBA Program at Wuhan University, People's Republic of China (2004 and 2005); as an invited lecturer in case research and development at The National Institute of Public Administration - Malaysia (2001, 2002, and 2003); and as the visiting professor in Organization and Management and in Case Research at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia, in English) back in the Summer of 2001.
Professor Dr. Darden earned his Bachelor of Science degree, 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 inductee into Life Membership in the national business honor society, Beta Gramma Sigma. He obtained the 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, Professor Darden served a six-year term as a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers Visiting Committee for the Graduate Business School, an appointed body that advises the senior governing board, the President and Fellows of Harvard College, on matters concerning the strategic initiatives and operational status of the Harvard Business School.
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