dt ogilvie

dt ogilvie is Professor of Business Strategy & Urban Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick, Founding Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, Founding Director of the Scholars Training and Enrichment Program, and was previously Associate Provost of Information Technology Strategy and CIO at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Newark. She is also Professeur Associe Invite de Gestion Strategique a l'Universite de Reims, Champagne-Ardennes, France, where she is a Fellow of EUROP (Equipe Universitaire de Recherche sur les Organisations et leurs Performances) a Reims. Dr. ogilvie is a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow, an Institute for Research on Women Funded Faculty Fellow, a GE Teaching Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Women and Work, a School of Business Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, a BEST Fellow, and an IC² Global Fellow.

She earned her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from The University of Texas at Austin, her MBA in Strategic Management and International Strategic Management from the Executive MBA Program at Southern Methodist University, her BA in Sociology from Oberlin College, and attended The Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania. Dr.ogilvie earned certificates in Advanced Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin and in Non Linear Systems from the Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research at The University of Michigan, where she was a Visiting Scholar in the summer of 1993. She earned a certificate in Using Web Tools in Your Classroom from Harvard University in 2002, a certificate from the Management Development Program at Harvard University in 2004, and a certificate in The Art & Craft of Discussion Leadership from Harvard Business School in 2008.

Dr. ogilvie's research interests include executive leadership strategies of multicultural women executives; women in the executive suite; strategic decision making and the use of creativity to enhance business and battlefield decision making, and applying complexity theory to strategy and creativity; resource-based decision making by entrepreneurs; assessing environmental dimensions; strategic thinking in the 21st century; economic development of the inner-city; e-commerce business models; effective communication for women in business; and technology transfer and countertrade issues in the People's Republic of China.

Her 1990 paper in Business Perspectives, Should Your Global Strategy Include China? (with James Fitzsimmons), was one of the most requested papers on the Business Forum on Delphi database. She has published in the Academy of  Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Career Development International, International Journal of Information Technology and Management, Group & Organization Management, The Learning Organization: An International Journal, Group Decision and Negotiation, The Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship, and has chapters in James G. (Jerry) Hunt, George E. Dodge, and Leonard Wong (Eds.) Out of the Box Leadership: Transforming the 21st Century Army and Other Top Performing Organizations (Westport, CT: JAI Press, 1999); Steven W. Floyd, Johan Roos, Claus D. Jacobs, and Franz W. Kellermanns (Eds.) Innovating Strategy Process (Blackwell Publishing, 2004/2005), a volume of the prestigious Strategic Management Society strategy book series edited by Dr. Michael Hitt; D. Ketchen and D. Bergh (Eds.) Research Methodology in Strategy and Management (Oxford, Elsevier, 2006); and T. Garcia-Merino and V. Santos-Alvarez (Eds.) Managerial Cognition and Strategic Management : Rethinking Internationalization Strategies (Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2011). She has also written a number of textbook case studies published by Prentice-Hall. Her Leadership Quarterly article with Pat Parker was reprinted in the “Simmons Reader”- Robin J. Ely, Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Maureen A. Scully, and The Center for Gender and Organizations, Simmons School of Management (Eds.) Reader in Gender, Work, and Organizations (Blackwell Publishing, 2003). Her Group Decision and Negotiation article with Shalei Simms on using creativity in negotiations, was recognized by Harvard Negotiation Journal and the Harvard Negotiation newsletter. Five of her papers have won research awards.

Dr. ogilvie is on the Editorial Review Boards of Emergence: Complexity and Organization and the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. She co-edited, with Jeanne Liedtka and Roger Martin, the best-selling special issue in 2007 of the Journal of Business Strategy on Design and Business.

Prior to her academic career, Dr. ogilvie had over 13 years experience in the corporate world. She was Business Planning Manager/Strategic Planning at The Southland Corporation, where she previously served as Information Systems Planning Manager, Franchise Planning Analyst, and ran multimillion dollar profit centers. She managed and ran two turnaround situations before joining Southland. Prior to that, Dr. ogilvie owned a small jewelry manufacturing business. She provides consulting services for public agencies and businesses, including Fortune 50 firms and the US Army; her work with the Army on battlefield decision making for 21st century Army is based on her model of creative action-based strategic decision making.

She has spoken at national and international academic conferences, business meetings of major companies, the 1997 Christine Todd Whitman Governor’s Conference on Women, the London office of Ernst and Young, the Work/Life Leadership Council of the Conference Board, among others. She attended the 49th National Security Forum at the Air War College, at the invitation of the Secretary of the Air Force, to discuss national security issues. Dr. ogilvie has given invited seminars at colleges and universities, including the Army War College and the National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces. She recently served as keynote speaker for the Association of Strategic Planning’s 2009 Annual Meeting and will be a speaker at the upcoming Yulkuum Jerrang: 3rd Indigenous Economic Development Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

She teaches business strategy (undergraduates, MBAs, Ph.D.s), e-commerce strategy (MBAs), creativity in business (undergraduates & MBAs in the US and France, EMBAs), Executive Leadership & Negotiations (International EMBAs - Singapore; MBAs - France), Business Innovation (International EMBAs - Beijing and Shanghai), and several study trip courses, Doing Business in China. Doing Business in Southeast Asia, Doing Business in Argentina, and Doing Business in Chile (all levels, including alums). Her students commended her with a plaque for Excellence in Teaching in 1995 and she was a finalist for the 1999 and 2000 Nadler Teaching Excellence awards. Her Business Innovation course was voted the number one elective by six IEMBA classes since it was first offered. Dr. ogilvie was recognized by the Aspen Institute and the World Resources Institute as a Finalist for the 2005 Beyond Grey Pinstripes Faculty Pioneer External Impact Award and was nominated for the Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty.  

Dr. ogilvie is or was a member of several professional associations, including the Academy of Management (AOM), Strategic Management Society, the Eastern Academy of Management, the Strategic Leadership Forum (formerly the Planning Forum), the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, INFORMS, the Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, the Creative Education Foundation, and the Corporate Women’s Network. She is on the boards of C SPECT, Inc., The Environmental & Marine Group (as Chair); Brick City Development Corporation as Treasurer; and 5 Stone Capital. Dr. ogilvie was formerly on the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE); the Board of Directors of the National Black MBA Association, as Vice Chair and member of the Executive Committee, where she chaired the Policies & Procedures Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee, and sat on the Finance and Audit Committees;  the Eastern Academy of Management, where she was President and Chair of its Board of Governors;  the Executive Board of the Alumni Council of Oberlin College; the Boards of Trustees of the Urban League of Essex County, where she chaired the Strategic Planning Committee; First Concern, Inc. (Finance Committee); A Job Well Done, Inc.; the CHAD School; and PipeVine New Media, Inc., among others. She is a Past President of the Academy of Management Council, a special committee of the AOM Board of Governors, The CASE Association, and the Oberlin Alumni of African Ancestry Association. She sits on the McKinsey Quarterly Online Executive Panel and is serving a second term on the board of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations division of AOM.

Dr. ogilvie is regularly quoted in the business press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Business Week, The Economist, The Star-Ledger, and The Record, among others. She has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNN, and NJN.

A principal of ogilvie & Associates LLC, Dr. ogilvie provides consulting services to business and industry, government agencies, and non-profit organizations in the areas of business strategy, gender & diversity, leadership, creativity & innovation, mergers & acquisitions, effective communication for women, and career development, and gives speeches, keynote addresses, seminars, and training sessions on topics of interest to various clients.