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William Boulton

Visiting Professor
Department of Management

Office: PH 430
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Web Site: http://www.business.auburn.edu/~boultwr/
William Boulton

Background

Specialties: International Business and Strategy
Education: BBA, MBA, University of Washington; DBA Harvard University
Profile: Dr. Boulton is the C.G. Mills Professor of Strategic Management in the College of Business at Auburn University. His research is focused on Global, Technology-based Competition.

Dr. Boulton was Visiting Professor at Germany's premier executive development institute, Universitatsseminar der Wirtschaft at Schloss Gracht, in Erftstadt during 1999. He was a Visiting Scholar at the prestigious Institute for Fiscal and Financial Policy of Japan's Ministry of Finance in 1993. He has also been Visiting Professor at Keio Business School in Japan in 1992, 1993, and 2001 where he was also hosted as a Fulbright Research Scholar in 1986.

Since 1992, he has conducted a number of research studies for U.S. government agencies on electronic manufacturing technologies and industrial development policies of Asian countries. The studies he edited include Electronic Manufacturing and Packaging in Japan (1995), and Semiconductor and Electronic Manufacturing in the Pacific Rim (1997), and Information Technologies in the Development Strategies of Asia (1999). Dr. Boulton also chaired and edited the Electronic Manufacturing in Hong Kong and China study for the International Technology Research Institute in 2000.

Dr. Boulton is author of numerous articles and cases covering topics of competitive strategy, technology and innovation management, boards of directors, and strategic planning. He also developed The Resource Guide for the Management of Innovation and Technology for the AACSB in 1993, and wrote a case and textbook, Business Policy: The Art of Strategic Management in 1984.

Courses
MBA 539 SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Course Web Site
MBA 591 BUSINESS POLICY Course Web Site
MGMT 470 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS (CF) Course Web Site
MGMT 495 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Course Web Site


            

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