Robert (Bob) B. Duncan (born 1942) earned his B.A. – Psychology/Sociology (1964) and M.A. –Sociology (1966) from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. – Organizational Behavior – Yale University (1971). He was Dean of the Eli Broad College of Business from 2002–2008 and Professor of Management from 2002 -2010.

From 1970 to 2001 he was on the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. He was the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change. While at Kellogg he also served as chair of the Department of Management and Organizations, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and was Provost at Northwestern (chief academic office) from 1987–1991. He is currently back at Kellogg as Visiting Professor of Executive Education.

While at Kellogg he taught in Kellogg’s MBA and executive programs. He developed the Management of Change course in the Executive Management Program beginning in 1976. He is currently teaching that course at Kellogg. While at Kellogg he won numerous teaching awards in the both MBA and EMP programs.

At MSU Professor Duncan taught strategy implementation and the management of strategic change in Broad’s MBA and executive programs. He was named Professor of Excellence in the Broad School Executive MBA Program.

He is the author of numerous journal articles and two books: Innovations and Organizations (with G. Zaltman and J. Holbeck, Wiley-Interscience) and Strategies for Planned Change (with G. Zaltman, Wiley-Interscience). His research deals with strategy formulation, implementing strategic change, and creating and changing corporate culture.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and served as its president in 1983. He has been on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Executive, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the Strategic Management Journal. He also served as a member of the Committee on Issues in Management Education, and the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

He is a frequent consultant to senior management and chief executive officers on strategy formulation, leading corporate culture change, organizational design, implementing strategic change, developing corporate strategic vision, and building top management teams. Some of the organizations he has worked with include: American Bankers Association, American Medical Association, Baker & McKenzie Law Firm, Booz Allen, Clorox Company, the FBI, the Walt Disney Company, Ernst and Young, General Motors Corporation, General Electric, IBM, International Paper, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg’s Food, Kerr McGee, Motorola, Mobil Oil Corporation, 3M Company, United Parcel Service and Zurich Insurance.