Change and Innovation, Design, Strategic Management, and International Education
| Academic and Innovation Professional Through his nearly thirty years of professional work, Dr. Edgell has forged a unique identity from diverse educational experiences and an unconventional combination of practice activities. He holds degrees in Architecture, international business, and multicultural management (with a behavioral economics focus). His varied professional contributions include designing habitats, creating media and brands, being an entrepreneur, developing action research, educating future change agents, and performing scholarly research on creativity and innovation. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington DC and a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Business School in Zurich. Previously, he taught at San Francisco State University’s College of Business. As a consultant, Dr. Edgell has provided strategic direction, organizational design, creativity and management training, and relationship development solutions for diverse organizations including socially responsible businesses, startups, nonprofits, and universities. Dr. Edgell’s scholarship agenda expands upon his deep research commitment to diversity, multiculturalism, governance, and social justice. In his PhD dissertation, he empirically tested how various forms of actor heterogeneity (i.e., cognitive, creative, social) positively influence organizational creativity outcomes, especially in media settings. Recently, he was selected to advise Stanford University’s SIPX project, an open innovation scholarly content network, on research pertaining to social network theory, intellectual property, public knowledge creation and dissemination, innovation, and emerging markets. This past year, he collaborated with a legal scholar from Stanford University to write an interdisciplinary theory of innovation, harm, and information networks titled, Two innovation paths: Predicting harm and benefit. Prior to his PhD, he authored the seminar companion book, Profitable marketing and branding in the digital economy. In addition, he has written numerous action research reports and contributed to multiple creative design and social media projects. During his stay in Switzerland, he served as Executive Director of the MBA in Media and Communication at the University of St. Gallen. He has spent over twenty years in digital commerce, marketing, publishing, Architecture, consulting and executive education. Prior to Ameursian, he served as Vice President of Club Marketing at Carclub.com. While at Bertelsmann, he held various executive positions. He co-established Doubleday Interactive, had P&L responsibility for annual revenues of over $200 million at Doubleday Direct's entertainment clubs, and was in charge of strategic planning at Book Group North America. Dr. Edgell received his PhD in international multicultural management (magna cum laude) from the University of St. Gallen (AACSB accredited) in Switzerland. He holds an MBA from Columbia University Business School in the City of New York and a Bachelor of Architecture (5 year degree, cum laude) from Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Through Columbia's Chazen Institute of International Business, he studied at Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands. He is a registered Architect and has studied at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. |
