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New Rochelle, NY, February 22, 2001 - William H. Starbuck, PhD, the ITT Professor of Creative Management at the Stern School of Business at New York University, will deliver a guest lecture titled "Elements of Exceptional Success," on Wednesday, March 28, 2001, at 3:30 pm in Joyce Auditorium on the Iona College campus, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle. This presentation is part of The Jack Rudin & John G. Driscoll Distinguished Visiting Professorship, hosted by Iona's Hagan School of Business. The address is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in Arrigoni Center.

Dr. Starbuck has been the ITT Professor of Creative Management at the Stern School of Business for the past 16 years. During this time he was the director of the doctoral program for the Graduate School of Business Administration at NYU, as well as a visiting professor at universities around the world.

Dr. Starbuck's expertise in the business field is far reaching. He has held faculty positions at Purdue University, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He has taught a variety of business courses including strategic forecasting, advanced organizational design, business polity and multidisciplinary perspectives in corporate strategy research.

Highly regarded and respected in his field, Dr. Starbuck has been a recipient of fellowships from the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Society and the British Academy of Management. He also received an honorary doctorate in social science from the University of Stockholm in 1995.

A member of many editorial boards over the years, Starbuck currently serves on the editorial boards of the Asian Case Research Journal, the British Journal of Management, Information and Organization, the International Journal of Management Reviews, the Journal of Leadership Studies, the Journal of Management Inquiry, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Socioeconomics, Knowledge Management and Information Studies, Organization and the Scandinavian Journal of Management.

Dr. Starbuck is the author of numerous articles on business issues, and is the editor of four books including the Handbook of Organizational Design, which was chosen as the best book on management published in 1982. He holds a master's and doctoral degree in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University.

The Jack Rudin & John G. Driscoll Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Iona College was established with a grant from Jack '86H and Susan Rudin. Invitations are extended each year to outstanding scholars to serve as visiting professors at Iona. Speaking of the Rudin/Driscoll Visiting Professorship, President James A. Liguori, CFC, said, "Our association with internationally recognized scholars provides an essential opportunity for members of the Iona community to expand the horizons of their own teaching, learning and research.

Past honorees have included Dr. Claire Gaudiani, president of Connecticut College; Ralph Acampora '63, managing director, Prudential Securities; Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes; Susan Fisher, professor of Sociology, Wesleyan Univeristy; Thomas Donaldson, professor of Business Ethics, Georgetown University; James Kugel, professor of Hebrew Literature, Harvard University; and Thomas J. Flanagan, distinguished professor of English at SUNY Stonybrook.

For questions or more information please contact:
Meghan Finn
Public Relations Office
Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801
tel: 914 633-2005 fax: 914 637-2711

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