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Dr. Stephen A. Stumpf named interim
dean of C&F
By Irene Burgo
 Dr.
Stephen A. Stumpf, the Fred J. Springer Endowed Chair in Business Leadership
in the College of Commerce and Finance (C&F), has been named dean
of the College, effective immediately, announced the Rev. Edmund J. Dobbin,
O.S.A., University president.
Stumpf is a professor and chair of the management department who was appointed
holder of the Springer Chair last November. He replaces Dr. Thomas F.
Monahan, who had served as dean from June 1996 and now returns to his
other role of professor of accountancy.
Stumpf, a center city Philadelphia resident, has enjoyed successful careers
in academia as well as in business. Prior to joining the C&F faculty
in 2000, he was dean of professional development at Booz | Allen | Hamilton,
where he designed and delivered leadership programs for principals and
partners, and with whom he works as a speaker, facilitator and advisor
on topics of leadership and relationship building.
From 1993 to 1996, Stumpf was professor of management at The University
of Tampa, Florida, where he founded its Center for Leadership, and served
as dean of the College of Business and Graduate Studies. Prior to this,
he was a professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York
University for 16 years, and during this time received the David L. Bradford
National Award for outstanding teaching from the Organizational Behavior
Teaching Society. In 1988, he founded the MSP Institute, a non-profit
research and development organization that serves the educational, public
and business communities with technologies for leadership development.
He still serves as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Business
Administration - Zurich, Switzerland, Executive MBA Program. He also serves
as an advisor on topics of leadership and relationship building for other
firms including Aetna, CitiGroup, Deutsche Bank, Dow Jones and Company,
Metropolitan Life, Philip Morris, SmithKline Beecham, Charles Schwab,
Salomon Smith Barney, and Tampa Electric.
In 1986, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil. He has authored nine books
and more than 118 journal articles. He earned a degree in chemical engineering
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1971, and a master’s
degree in business administration from the University of Rochester in
1972. He also received a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate
in organizational behavior and industrial psychology from New York University
in 1978. His dissertation won the American Psychological Association Outstanding
Dissertation Award. He served four years in the U.S. Air Force as an officer
and engineer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
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