James Gardner March

James G. March is the Jack Steele Parker Professor Emeritus of International Management at Stanford University, where he also had appointments in the Schools of Business and Education and in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His recent research has focused on understanding risk taking, decision making, learning, and leadership in organizations such as business firms, public bureaucracies, and educational institutions. March is highly respected for his broad theoretical perspective which combined theories from psychology and other behavioral sciences. As a core member of the Carnegie School, he collaborated with the cognitive psychologist Herbert A. Simon on several works on organization theory. March has received numerous honorary degrees, including doctorates from the Copenhagen School of Economics in Denmark (1978), University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee (1980), Uppsala University in Sweden (1987), Dublin City University in Ireland (1994), the University of Poitiers in France (2001), York University in Toronto (2007), and the University of Alberta (2009). He has been knighted by the governments of Norway (1995) and Finland (2000).