James G. Clawson

James G. Clawson, Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration

  • AB, Stanford University; MBA, Brigham Young University; DBA, Harvard University
Office: FOB 293-B
Phone: +1-434-924-7488
E-mail: JimClawson@virginia.edu

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MBA Courses

Personal Career Assessment Program
First Year Leadership in Organizations
Tactical Leadership
Strategic Leadership
Doctoral Seminar in Pedagogy

Executive Education Courses

Power and Leadership
Seizing Opportunities
UTC EP
Managing the Corporate Aviation Function
Developing Leadership Capability
Leading Innovation: America's Greatest Inventive Genius

Biography

Professor James Clawson published Level Three Leadership 4th ed, Powered by Feel: How Individuals, Teams, and Companies Excel (with Doug Newburg) and Balancing your Life:  Executives Lessons for Work, Family and Self in 2008 and 2009. He teaches actively in the MBA and doctoral programs as well as leading and participating in several Executive Education programs.

Clawson's research addresses issues of leadership, career management, management development and mentoring. He has authored 17 book-length manuscripts and numerous articles and has written or supervised the writing of more than 200 cases on a variety of topics. Clawson has consulted with a number of corporations and organizations all over the world (North America, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa) on leadership development, organizational design, management development, career management, managing change and human resource management. He also has taught at the International University of Japan as a visiting professor.

In 2009, he was named the David L. Bradford Educator of the Year by the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and Reviewer of the Year by the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal. Before joining the Darden faculty in 1981, Clawson taught at Harvard Business School, worked as a functional trainer for Mobil Oil Company in Japan and served as an international banking officer for Wells Fargo Bank.

Publications

Faculty Publication

Expertise

Leadership
Managing Change
Career Management
Management Development
Tactical Leadership
Strategic Leadership
Pedagogy

Featured Video

Professor Clawson on Ethics at Darden

Darden faculty and administration highlight some of the ways they incorporate business ethics into their specialty areas across the Darden enterprise and not just in the core ethics classes. In this video, we hear from Professor James Clawson of Darden's Leadership and Organizational Behavior faculty.