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Mike Crant, Ph.D., M.B.A.<br />

Professor and Chair, Management<br />

Biography<br />

Mike Crant is chair of the Department of Management in the Mendoza College of Business. A<br />

member of the faculty since 1990, he conducts research on proactive personality and behavior<br />

at work. Crant is one of the creators of the proactive personality scale, the most frequently<br />

used measure of proactivity in organization literature. His recent work studies the frequency<br />

and impact of proactive behaviors in Asian cultures, where proactivity has traditionally been<br />

Categories<br />

frowned upon. Crant teaches courses in management, leadership, teams, and decision making<br />

to undergraduate, M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. students. A winner of multiple teaching Business<br />

awards, Crant has won three Kaneb Teaching Awards for effective undergraduate teaching<br />

and was selected as the outstanding professor by the Chicago EMBA Class of 2007. He has<br />

conducted numerous executive development seminars for companies worldwide, including<br />

Bayer, HSBC, LANXESS, Siemens, Donnelly, the Far Eastern Group, and Toro. Crant earned B.S., B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from<br />

the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<br />

Lectures<br />

How to Be a More Effective Leader<br />

Leadership is about getting things done through people. This lecture will explore the question, “What makes a great leader and<br />

how can I become one?” The lecturer will draw from best practices of highly effective leaders and from large studies of followers<br />

in order to arrive at practical answers to this question.<br />

Making Better Decisions at Work<br />

The essence of managerial work is making decisions, yet people spend surprisingly little time thinking about the decision-making<br />

process. How do people actually make decisions? What types of factors cause leaders to make poor decisions? What about the<br />

role of intuition? When can we trust our gut?<br />

28 The Hesburgh Lecture Series, <strong>2012</strong> <strong>Program</strong>

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