Teaching and research interests
Paul Ingram is the Kravis Professor Business at the Columbia Business School, and Faculty Director of the Columbia Senior Executive Program. His PhD is from Cornell University, and he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University before coming to Columbia. He has held visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Toronto. The courses he teaches on management and strategy benefit from his research on organizations in the United States, Canada, Israel, Scotland, China and Australia. His research has been published in a number of articles, book chapters and books. Ingram's current research projects examine the influence of intergovernmental organizations on bilateral trade and democratization; the structure and efficacy of managers' professional networks in China and the United States; and the effects of networks and institutions on the evolution of the Glasgow shipbuilding industry. He has served as a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology, a senior editor for Organization Science, an Associate Editor for Management Science and on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Organization. He recently completed a term as President of the College of Organization Science of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). Paul's undergraduate degree is from Brock University where received the Governor General's Award as the top graduating student. In 2004 he received the Distinguished Graduate Award from Brock's Faculty of Business and in 2007 he won the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence at the Columbia Business School. He has consulted on issues of organizational design and strategy to leading companies in the finance, health care and consumer products industries.
