Doug Guthrie is an American academic administrator, sociologist, and China scholar. He is currently professor of global leadership and director of China initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at The Arizona State University. He was previously the dean of The George Washington University School of Business, and professor of management and sociology and director of executive education and NYU's Stern School of Business. He has also served as a visiting professor of management at the business schools of Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Emory, and INSEAD and as director of the Business Institutions Initiative at the Social Science Research Council.

Biography

Guthrie was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1969, where he attended Franklin Regional and Taylor Allderdice High Schools. He received his AB Degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (concentration in Chinese literature) from the University of Chicago in 1992. He later earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Guthrie's PhD research was awarded the American Sociological Association national award for best dissertation in the discipline in 1997. Guthrie's academic career began in 1997, as a Professor of Sociology at New York University. After receiving tenure in 2000, Guthrie spent time at a variety of business schools including Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Emory, and INSEAD. Upon returning to NYU in 2005, Guthrie took up an appointment as Professor of Management and Director of Custom Executive Education at NYU's Stern School of Business. In the Summer of 2010, he was named Dean of the George Washington University School of Business. He stepped down from the Deanship and his university position as vice president for China operations in August 2013. The university cited "fundamental differences about financial and operational performance" as a reason for his departure, namely, the School of Business' overspending by $13 million in the preceding year under his leadership. In 2014, Apple, Inc. hired Guthrie to lead Apple University's leadership development work in China and advise on the company's operations in China. He left the company in 2019.

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