Ian Mitroff

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Ian Mitroff is a well-known business policy professor, writer, editor, lecturer, and consultant on human-caused crises.

Contents 1 Academic background 2 Accomplishments 2.1 USC Center for Crisis Management 2.2 Other achievements 2.3 Writer, lecturer and editor 2.4 TV and radio celebrity 3 Publications 4 External links

[edit] Academic background

Mitroff received his B.S. in engineering physics at the University of California in Berkeley. At the same school, he also managed to receive his M.S. in structural engineering, as well as his Ph.D in industrial engineering. In September of 2000, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor’s degree from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stockholm.

[edit] Accomplishments

[edit] USC Center for Crisis Management

In 1986, Mitroff established the USC Center for Crisis Management at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in the Graduate School of Business. He was the director of the USC Center for ten years whose purpose was to analyze human-caused crises and create state-of-the-art tools to better manage them. The Center became quite famous both nationally and internationally due to Dr. Mitroff's activities as director and the support of the USC Graduate School of Business and major corporations. Mitroff's accomplishments at the University of Southern California granted him status as a Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor in the field of Business Policy in the Marshall School of Business. He currently holds the title of University Professor at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University.

[edit] Other achievements

Mitroff became the President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences from 1992 up until 1993. In 1995, he established and became president of a private organization known as Comprehensive Crisis Management. Basically, CCM was a consulting firm that specialized in the treatment of human-caused crises. Mitroff possesses other positions. He is the Associate Director of the USC Center for Strategic Public Relations in the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Also, he is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association.

[edit] Writer, lecturer and editor

Mitroff has published over 250 papers and articles and over 25 books in fifteen different fields of study:

• Crisis management
• Business policy
• Corporate culture
• Contemporary media
• Current events
• Foreign affairs
• Nuclear deterrence
• Organizational change
• Organizational psychology and psychiatry
• Philosophy of science
• Sociology of science
• Public policy
• Scientific method
• Spirituality in the workplace
• Strategic planning

Mitroff is a member of editorial boards in several management and social science journals. He has written articles in journals and newspapers such as the Journal of Industrial Crisis Quarterly, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Research in Corporate Responsibility, Executive Excellence, the Los Angeles Times, the Journal of Management Studies, the Chicago Sun Times, the International Herald Tribune, and others.

As a lecturer, Mitroff has advised and influenced various academic, corporate, and government leaders in over twenty foreign countries.

[edit] TV and radio celebrity

Mitroff has also appeared numerous times on the following national radio and TV talk shows:

• Michael Jackson Show (KABC TalkRadio, Los Angeles)
• Window on Wall Street (CNN Financial News)
• Ray Briem Show (KABC TalkRadio, Los Angeles)
• Straight-Talk (WOR-TV, New York)
• Dick Cavett Show (CNBC, New York)
• Late Night America (PBS TV)
• Marketplace (National Public Radio)
• Business Unusual (CNN Financial News)

[edit] Publications

• 1974 - Mitroff, Ian. The Subjective Side of Science: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Psychology of the Apollo Moon Scientists. Elsevier, Amsterdam (reissued in 1984 by Intersystems Publishers, Seaside, California).
• 1978 - Mitroff, Ian and Kilmann, Ralph. Methodological Approaches to Social Science: Integrating Divergent Concepts and Theories. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
• 1981 - Mitroff, Ian and Mason, R.O. Challenging Strategic Planning Assumptions, Theory, Cases, and Techniques. John Wiley, New York.
• 1982 - Mitroff, Ian and Mason, R.O. and Reidel, D. Creating A Dialectical Social Science: Concepts, Methods, and Models. John Wiley, New York.
• 1983 - Mitroff, Ian and Mason, R.O. and Barabba, V.P. The 1980 Census: Policymaking Amid Turbulence. Lexington Books, Massachusetts.
• 1983 - Mitroff, Ian. Stakeholders of the Organizational Mind: Toward A New View of Policy Making. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
• 1984 - Mitroff, Ian and Kilmann, Ralph. Corporate Tragedies, Product Tampering, Sabotage, and Other Catastrophes. Praeger, New York.
• 1987 - Mitroff, Ian. Business Not As Usual, Rethinking Our Individual, Corporate, and Industrial Strategies for Global Competition. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
• 1988 - Mitroff, Ian. Break-Away Thinking, How To Challenge Your Business Assumptions. John Wiley, New York.
• 1989 - Mitroff, Ian and Bennis, Warren. The Unreality Industry, The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What It Is Doing to Our Lives. Birch Lane Press, New York.
• 1990 - Mitroff, Ian and Pauchant, Thierry. We're So Big And Powerful Nothing Bad Can Happen To Us: An Investigation of America's Crisis-Prone Corporations. Birch Lane Press, New York.
• 1992 - Mitroff, Ian and Linstone, Harold. The Unbounded Mind: Breaking the Chains of Traditional Business Thinking. Oxford University Press.
• 1992 - Mitroff, Ian and Pauchant, Thierry. Transforming the Crisis-Prone Organization. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
• 1993 - Mitroff, Ian and Pearson, Christine M. Crisis Management: A Diagnostic Guide for Improving Your Organization's Crisis-Preparedness. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
• 1994 - Mitroff, Ian and Linstone, Harold A. The Challenge of the 21st Century: Managing Technology and Ourselves in a Shrinking World. State University of New York Press, Albany, New York.
• 1994 - Mitroff, Ian and Mason, Richard O. and Pearson, Christine M. Framebreak: The Radical Redesign of American Business. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
• 1995 - Mitroff, Ian and Pauchant, Thierry.
• 1996 - Mitroff, Ian. The Essential Guide to Managing Corporate Crises.
• 1998 - Mitroff, Ian and Pearson, Christine M. and Harrington, Katharine L. Smart Thinking for Crazy Times: The Art of Solving the Right Problems. Oxford University Press, New York. The Management of Crises and Paradoxes: Preventing the Destructive Effects of Organizations (in French). H.E.C., Montreal, Canada.
• 1999 - Mitroff, Ian and Denton, Elizabeth A. A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America: A Hard Look at Spirituality, Religion, and Values in the Workplace. Jossey-Bass Publishers Inc., San Francisco. (ISBN 0-7879-4666-4).
• 2000 - Mitroff Ian and Anagnos, Gus. Managing Crises Before They Happen: What Every Executive Needs to Know About Crisis Management. AMACOM, New York.
• 2003 - Mitroff, Ian. Crisis Leadership: Planning for the Unthinkable. John Wiley, New York.
• 2005 - Mitroff, Ian. Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger And Better From a Crisis: Seven Essential Lessons For Surviving Disaster. AMACOM, New York.

[edit] External links

• Mitroff.Net
• Global Business Network - Ian Mitroff