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    Jackson Nickerson

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    Jackson Nickerson
    Jackson Nickerson.jpg
    Washington University
    Born1962 (age 59–60)
    Weymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.
    NationalityAmerican
    Alma materUC Berkeley (Ph.D.) 1997

    UC Berkeley (M.B.A.) 1990
    UC Berkeley (M.S.M.E.) 1986

    WPI (B.S.M.E.) 1984
    Scientific career
    FieldsLeadership education, Transaction Cost Economics
    InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
    (1996-present)
    Doctoral advisorOliver E. Williamson
    Websitewww.olin.wustl.edu

    Jackson Nickerson (born 1962) is an American academic who studies leadership, organizations, and strategy. Nickerson was the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy (Emeritus) in Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He also was the associate Dean and Director of Brookings Executive Education from 2009-2017 and was a non-resident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution from 2010-2020.

    Biography[edit]

    Nickerson grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, followed by a Masters in Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, before returning to Berkeley for a Master in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business. He later returned to Haas for a Ph.D., simultaneously working for six years as a consultant for the Law and Economics Consulting Group.

    Nickerson was appointed assistant professor at Olin Business School in 1996, promoted to associate professor (2001), full professor (2005), the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy (2007), and received emeritus status in 2020. After becoming strategy group chair in 2008, he was appointed Director of Brookings Executive Education in 2009 and became its associate dean in 2010. In 2009 he became a non-resident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and was the first Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grameen Foundation in 2010 and 2011. From 2013 through 2014 he wrote the leadership columns “Ask EIG: Leadership insights for Federal managers” for Government Executive Online and has been a speaker for the Institute of Management Studies since 2014.[1] [2] In 2019, Nickerson received the Strategic Management Society's Education Impact Award.[3]

    Research Areas[edit]

    Nickerson’s early research built upon Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost economics to predict the antecedents and performance consequences of organizational choices in a wide variety of empirical settings and industries. Along with Todd Zenger, he introduced the concepts of organizational vacillation and envy as foundations to firm boundaries, and is credited with introducing the Problem Finding and Problem Solving Perspective, which provides a knowledge-based foundation for a theory of firm boundaries, organizational choice, entrepreneurship, and the design of group processes to overcome biases.[4]

    Entrepreneurship[edit]

    In 1995, Nickerson co-founded the Intellectual Capital Management Group.[5] In 2006, he co-founded NFORMD.NET, a new media company that through its subsidiary StudentSuccess.org provides sexual assault prevention training at over 350 colleges and universities[6] and to the US Army. Between 2009 and 2012, he was a board member of Clean Tech Bio-fuels.[7] He also is a co-founder of Acquilang LLC and EPC Learning Labs LLC.

    Curriculum innovations[edit]

    Nickerson is a co-creator of Critical Thinking@Olin,[8] an approach to teaching critical thinking that won the inaugural MBA Roundtable Innovator Award].[9] The approach is taught to other business schools a part of AACSB’s Curriculum Development Series. In conjunction with AACSB, he developed Leading in the Academic Enterprise,[10] an approach for developing leaders in academia. Through Brookings Executive Education he developed and launched Leading Thinking[11] an approach to leadership in which inquiry and critical thinking are the core.

    Books[edit]

    • Leading in Government: Practical advice to leadership questions from the front lines'.ASIN 0692752935 J.A. Nickerson, Brookings Executive Education, 2016.
    • Leading Change from the Middle: A Practical Guide to Building Extraordinary Capabilities'.ASIN B00II90HX0 J.A. Nickerson, Brookings Press, 2014.
    • Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Enterprise Leaders . J.A. Nickerson and R. Sanders (eds.), Brookings Press, 2013.ASIN 0815726392
    • Jackson Nickerson (25 September 2013). Leading Change in a Web 2.1 World: How ChangeCasting Builds Trust, Creates Understanding, and Accelerates Organizational Change. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-2542-8.
    • Economic Institutions of Strategy. J. A. Nickerson and B. S. Silverman (eds.), Advances in Strategic Management (Vol. 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009.ASIN 1848554869

    References[edit]

    1. ^ Online CV for Jackson Nickerson accessed September 2021
    2. ^ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=62363157&privcapId=36808765
    3. ^ "SMS | Awards".
    4. ^ Google Scholar Jack Nickerson
    5. ^ Bloomberg
    6. ^ Not Any More
    7. ^ Garbage In, Energy Out
    8. ^ Critical Thinking@Olin
    9. ^ Olin Business School wins MBA Roundtable Innovator Award
    10. ^ "Leading in the Academic Enterprise".
    11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-04-23. Retrieved 2016-05-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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