Steven Kerr, PhD, was recently appointed to the Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation Board of Directors. As a member, Dr. Kerr will assist in formulating strategic Foundation policies and plans, securing financial support and ensuring sound management of the not-for-profit organization.
“Dr. Kerr is highly respected in both the business and academic communities for his intelligence and creativity,” said Foundation President Lucy Morillo-Agnetti. “His extensive business background as well as his many years of service on advisory boards will provide a fresh perspective in helping us further our goal of providing children access to world-class medical care.”
Dr. Kerr is executive director of the Jack Welch Management Institute, and is a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs. He was a managing director and chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs from 2001 to 2006. He previously served as General Electric’s vice president of corporate leadership development and chief learning officer from 1994 to 2001 and was responsible for GE’s renowned leadership education center at Crotonville in New York. Prior to that he was on the business school faculties of The Ohio State University, the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California, where he was dean of the faculty and director of the PhD program.
Dr. Kerr is a member of the board of directors of Harvard Business Publishing and the Motley Fool, and is on the advisory board of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Graduate School of Education learning leadership program. He is a former president of the Academy of Management, the world’s largest association of academicians in management. His writings on leadership and “on the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B” are among the most cited and reprinted in the management sciences, and his book Reward Systems was recently published by Harvard Business Press.
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