Dr. Henry Mintzberg
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| Dr. Henry Mintzberg |
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Henry Mintzberg has been an academic most of his working life. After graduating from McGill with a degree in
mechanical engineering, he received his doctorate from MIT in 1968. He is currently Cleghorn Professor of Management
Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He also holds the title of visiting scholar at INSEAD in Fontainbleau,
France.
Dr. Mintzberg devotes himself largely to his writing and research in the areas of managerial work, strategy formation
and forms of organizing. He is completing a book called Developing Managers, Not MBAs, and preparing a series of
essays to be published under the title Managing Quietly, also a short political pamphlet called Getting Past Smith
and Marx: Toward a Balanced Society.
Dr. Mintzberg has worked for much of the past seven years in collaboration with colleagues from Canada, England,
France, India and Japan, to develop new approaches to management education. He recently completed a book called Why I
Hate Flying, a spoof of all the foibles of flying, and of managing.
In all, Dr. Mintzberg has written about 120 articles and about 10 books. Honours have included election as an Officer
of the Order of Canada and l'Ordre national du Quebec, and selection as Distinguished Scholar for the Year 2000 by
the Academy of Management. Dr. Mintzberg will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree during the 10 a.m. session
of convocation on May 31.
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