Strategic Management

Dr. Ken Baylor is an executive leader and advisor with scholarship that includes applied studies in organizational leadership and strategic management at the University of Oxford, along with executive sessions at Harvard Business School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, The Wharton School, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, The Center for Leadership Studies, and the Center for Creative Leadership. He has held senior roles in successful multi-billion-dollar publicly-traded enterprises during periods of rapid growth and profitability, and currently serves on the board of a large private corporation. Baylor's consulting practice includes clients in logistics (for example, railroad, pipeline, cargo vessels, and trucking), environmental services, aviation, hospitality, manufacturing, retail services, construction, a low-vision eye institute, and various nonprofits. His professional, academic, and environmental industry leadership has been recognized with numerous awards for outstanding performance. He is also published in professional and peer-reviewed journals. His empirical research on leadership in crisis management was commended by the North American Management Society as well as the North American Business Hall of Fame. In addition, Baylor had the good fortune to work with a world-renowned entrepreneur who founded three Fortune 500 companies and listed six companies on the New York Stock Exchange, to say nothing of his ownership of three professional sports franchises. Since 2018, Baylor has been an instructor for a graduate course in strategic management at Harvard’s Extension and Summer Schools. He has also taught a course in organizational culture and leadership at Harvard Professional and Executive Development. Previously, he taught doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate business courses at other Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited universities.