Larry Lad
Faculty Partner
Areas of Expertise
- Strategy and Strategic Thinking
- Corporate Citizenship
- Business, Government, and Community Relations
- Governance
- Business Ethics
Larry Lad challenges executives to think about their
organizations and the decisions they make from different
perspectives. As a poet and visual artist he guides audiences to be
creative and see managerial work from different vantage points.
Since 1991, Dr. Lad has served as an associate professor of
management in the College of Business at Butler University. He
teaches MBA and undergraduate courses in Strategy,
Leadership, and Ethical Decision-Making. He was also
responsible for an online course in Strategy for
the EMBA in Agribusiness at Purdue University. Larry has won five
teaching awards. He has taught in Executive Education Programs for
Butler, Indiana, Purdue, Louisiana State and Harvard and has
had international experience in China (Nankai University), Germany
(Zeppelin University) and Finland (Helsinki School of
Economics).
Dr. Lad's consulting activities focus on strategy development
and organization change. He has worked with client firms in health
care, agri-business, construction, and architecture. In addition to
strategy development, Larry does work on leadership,
decision-making, creativity, and team building including the use of
experiential art, and "outdoor challenge" activities.
Larry's research includes a book on industry self-regulation,
and academic articles in Business and Society, Academy
of Management Review, Research in Corporate Social
Performance and Policy, Business Ethics Quarterly,
Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and Futures Research
Quarterly.
Larry holds a Doctorate and MBA from Boston University, and a BS
and MPA from Michigan State University.