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John W. Boudreau, Ph.D.
Research Director
Center for Effective Organizations, USC

Professor and Research Director at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and Center for Effective Organizations, is recognized worldwide for breakthrough research on the bridge between superior human capital, talent and sustainable competitive advantage.  Dr. Boudreau consults and conducts executive development with companies worldwide that seek to maximize their employees’ effectiveness by discovering the specific strategic bottom-line impact of superior people and human capital strategies.

His latest book is Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital, with Pete Ramstad, published by Harvard Business School publishing, in 2007.

His consulting and research clients include American Express, Asian Development Bank, Avon, Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Citigroup, Corning, Dell, Electronic Arts, Frito-Lay, Gap, GE, The Hartford, Mattel, Merck, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Novartis, PepsiCo, Royal Dutch Shell, Sun Microsystems, ToysRUs, United Technologies, Unisys, the United Nations, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and Williams-Sonoma.  He is an invited contributor to executive programs with IMD, Wharton, and Cornell University. He a strategic advisor to a wide range of organizations, including early-stage
companies, global corporations, government and military agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Professor Boudreau was an architect and the first Visiting Director of Sun Microsystems’ unique Research and Development Laboratory for Human Capital.  He co-authored a best-selling textbook on human resource management that reached its eight edition and was translated into Chinese, Czech, Spanish and others.  His research has received the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior New Concept and Human Resource Scholarly Contribution awards.

Dr. Boudreau has published more than 50 books and articles.  Dr. Boudreau’s large-scale research studies and focused field research addresses the future of the global HR profession, HR measurement and analytics, decision based HR, executive mobility, HR information systems and organizational staffing and development.  His scholarly
research is published in Management Science, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Asia-Pacific Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Relations, Industrial Relations, and Journal of Human Resources Costing and Accounting.  Features on his work have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune,
Fast Company and Business Week, among others.

Professor Boudreau is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources.  The recipient of the General Mills Award for teaching innovations at Cornell University, Dr. Boudreau also founded the Central Europe Human Resource Education Initiative, which links American HR professionals and academic researchers with faculty and students in the Czech and Slovak Republics.  A strong proponent of corporate/academic partnerships, Dr. Boudreau helped to establish and then directed the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS), at Cornell University, where he was a professor for over 20 years, and continues his support of such partnerships in his current role as Research Director for the Center for Effective Organizations, at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Boudreau is a member of the board of advisors the Human Resource Planning Society and WorldatWork.  He is a Trustee for the Foundation of the National Academy of Human Resources.  He chaired the Academic Advisory Board of the California Strategic HR Partnership, a silicon-valley HR executive consortium, and served on the boards of advisors for the Saratoga Institute, a global source of human capital benchmarking and performance measures, and Brassring, a talent information company.  He has also been elected to the executive committees of the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Dr. Boudreau holds an undergraduate degree in business from New Mexico State University, and a Masters degree in Management and Ph.D. in industrial relations from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management.

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President

Jane Brenneman

JB2D Performance, Inc.

 

President-Elect

Steve Steckler

Microsoft Corporation

 

Treasurer

David Snyder

Nordstrom

  

Secretary

Kevin Hare

T-Mobile

   

Former PNW-HRSF Presidents

 

Jon Anastasio (2007)

Nordstrom

 

Gail McKee (2006)

Watson Wyatt

 

Directors

 

Angie Barrie

Watson Wyatt

 

Winsor Jenkins

NW Pipe

 

Genevieve Long

Starbucks Coffee Co.

 

Linda Mangone

Regence

 

Karen Query

KPJ Consulting

 

Pete Shipp

Mercer

 

Steve Steckler

Microsoft Corporation

 

Rhonda Stickley

Weyerhaeuser

 

Jim Sutton

Nike
 

 

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