Margarethe F Wiersemaholds the Dean’s Professorship in Strategic Management at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. She has an MBA and PhD from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Wiersema is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts on corporate strategy and CEO succession and replacement. She has published extensively in the premier journals in the field including the Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Journal, and Administrative Science Quarterly. Her research is widely acknowledged by

Executive MBA Program and Health Care Executive MBA Program at UCI. She is an International Fellow for the Advanced Institute of Management Research in the UK. She has served on the faculty at the Business Schools at the University of Michigan, Rice University,and as a visiting scholar at the London Business School. Wiersema is actively involved with the business community by providing expertise on the subject of strategic analysis and thinking as well as the role of the Board of Directors and corporate governance. She has addressed a variety of business audiences, has consulted with Fortune 500 companies, and has served as Program Director for UCI’s Corporate Directors Conference in 2004. She is an elected member of the board of directors of the Strategic Management Society. She was selected as a panel member for the Academy of Management special session on Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in 2003 and serves as President of the Corporate Strategy and Governance Group of the Strategic Management Society. She serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and the California Management Review.