Larry Stimpert is Professor of Economics and Business at Colorado College. Professor Stimpert received his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Illinois Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University. Professor Stimpert received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was recognized for the quality of his teaching while still a graduate student. He has also served on the faculty and taught strategic management courses at the undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. levels at Michigan State University. At Colorado College, he has been awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professorship and has received the Sidney G. Winter Award for his contributions to economics and business education.

Prior to entering the academic field, he worked in the railroad industry and served in various marketing and economic analysis positions at the Southern Railway Company and the Norfolk Southern Corporation. Later he worked as a Manager of Marketing and Pricing for the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company.

His research and teaching interests focus on top managers and their influence on strategic decision making and organizational strategies. He has written on many strategy issues, including managerial responses to environmental change and organizational decline, business definition and organizational identity, the management of corporate strategy and diversification, corporate governance, and company strategies following deregulation. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management Studies, and the Strategic Management Journal. He has also co-authored a strategic management text. Professor Stimpert is a member of the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Southern Management Association, and the Academy of Business Education. He serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Management, and he has previously served as a co-editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry.

During the 2002-2003 academic year, he was an ACE Fellow at Earlham College where he also served as Special Assistant to the President. At Earlham, he assisted in budgetary planning and forecasting projects and participated in meetings of the college’s Budget Committee, worked with members of the accreditation Self-Study Committee, served on the Ad Hoc Residential Life Committee, attended meetings of the Curricular Planning Committee that implemented a major revision in Earlham’s general education program, and participated in all meetings of the school’s Senior Staff, College Conference, and Board of Trustees.

At Colorado College, Professor Stimpert currently serves on the Faculty Executive Committee and the college’s Re-Accreditation Self-Study Committee. He has chaired the college’s Social Science Executive Committee and the Campus Design Review Board. For many years, he has directed the Economics and Business Department’s Perspectives on Business Program, a program of visiting faculty, executives-in-residence, symposia and special events designed to enhance economics and business education at Colorado College.

Larry and his wife, Lesley, have two young children, Connor and Renee. He enjoys hiking, backpacking, and skiing as well as gardening, reading, and playing the piano.