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Lawrence Singleton is currently a member of the faculty of The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) in Washington DC. He has held many leadership positions at GW, and most recently served as associate dean, where he was responsible for all aspects of GWSB undergraduate programs.

The scope of Singleton’s leadership at GW spans a wide spectrum. He led his team through a major vision/mission exercise that resulted in specific goals and metrics for success. Areas of strategic focus included curriculum development, professional academic advising, study abroad, experiential learning, communications skills, career management, diversity, and leveraging the opportunities of the Washington, DC community. The process greatly increased faculty and staff engagement, and resulted in a much more focused program with greatly expanded activities.

Major features of Singleton’s curriculum work include an expanded emphasis on helping students identify their strengths, written communications skills, and an innovative, integrated four-year career management program with specific industry tracks to prepare students for career success. He also expanded liberal arts requirements while providing opportunities for more depth in the business concentrations. He greatly strengthened GWSB’s First Year Development Program, academic advising, co-curricular programs, and dramatically increased alumni participation.

Singleton led the effort to develop GW’s five-year accounting program that provided a path for students to easily obtain the 150 hours required by many states for the CPA examination. He has also held numerous leadership roles in GW’s Executive, Full-time, Accelerated, and Professional MBA programs, including extensive work on curricular revision, academic advising, and student recruitment.

Singleton partnered with Deloitte to develop and fund the Battle of the Beltway case competition, created the Undergraduate Business Association, and greatly expanded GW’s New York Career Trek and DC Metropolitan Business Tour to provide additional opportunities for students. He also raised funds for support of faculty, student activities, and scholarships.

Singleton created new Study Abroad programs in Milan, Italy (with Bocconi University), Florence, Italy (partnership with Kent State), Denmark/Sweden, Tunis, Dominican Republic, and Buenos Aires, Argentina (Di Tella University for international business majors), and greatly expanded undergraduate study abroad participation from 38% to 50%. During his tenure as associate dean GWSB rose significantly in the undergraduate international business rankings, and is currently ranked 5th by U.S. News & World Report and 8th by Bloomberg Businessweek.

Singleton has held numerous academic and professional positions throughout his career. He worked in the audit and National SEC Practice groups of the Washington office of Ernst & Young, and was a visiting professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management in France and Peking University in China. He has also served as a consultant to many of the world’s leading organizations, including Cisco Systems, Harley-Davidson, NASDAQ OMX Group, National Investor Relations Institute, National Geographic Society, Public Relations Society of America, Roche, Siemens, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the World Bank.

He founded Singleton Associates, LLC to provide consulting and training services to professional services firms, corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies. His most popular seminar, the Accounting Treasure Hunt®, is the most effective (and the most fun) way for non-financial professionals to learn accounting, finance, and financial management fundamentals.

Singleton is a recipient of the George Washington Award, the university’s highest, in recognition of exceptional contributions. He served as faculty advisor to Beta Alpha Psi, the national professional accounting fraternity, and received the Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Faculty Vice President Award. He has served as President of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Accounting Association, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Human Resource Certification Institute and as a member of its Executive and HR Committees.

Singleton is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Beta Gamma Sigma, Beta Alpha Psi, the American Accounting Association, the National Investor Relations Institute, and the Society for Human Resource Management. He was recognized as Best Professor by GW’s Accelerated MBA Program, awarded the Outstanding Executive MBA Faculty Award on numerous occasions, recognized by the Society for Human Resource Management on numerous occasions as one of its Annual Conference Top Ten Speakers, and is the recipient of the Outstanding Accounting Professor Award by Beta Alpha Psi.

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Prior to taking over as dean of GWSB, he was professor of management and sociology at New York University, holding joint appointments in the Stern School of Business and NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His areas of expertise lie in the fields of leadership and organizational change, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, and economic reform in China. He has published widely in these fields, though he is probably best known for his work on China. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and the Graduate Schools of Business at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Emory University. He was director of the Business Institutions Initiative (1999–2003) at the Social Science Research Council. He has also been deeply involved in executive education, previously holding positions as the director of Custom Executive Education at NYU-Stern and as the executive academic director of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.

Biography
Guthrie was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1969, where he attended Taylor Allderdice High School. He received his AB Degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (concentration in Chinese literature) from the University of Chicago in 1992. During his time at Chicago, he left school for a year to study Mandarin in Taipei, Taiwan. Immediately following graduation from Chicago, he went on to study organizational and economic sociology at the University of California Berkeley under Neil Fligstein and Thomas Gold. A Social Science Research Council Grant allowed him to study in Berkeley’s Economics Department and then to go on to conduct his dissertation research in Shanghai. There he conducted a study of 81 factories in industrial Shanghai. His dissertation was awarded the American Sociological Association’s annual award for the best dissertation in the discipline (calendar year 1997) and eventually formed the basis for the book Dragon in a Three Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China (Princeton 1999).

Guthrie’s first academic appointment began at New York University’s Department of Sociology in 1997. Upon receiving tenure in 2000, Guthrie embarked on a string of other, short-term appointments to explore different ways to engage the business community more directly. From 1999-2003 Guthrie was director of the Business Institutions Initiative and the Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution at the Social Science Research Council. In building this program, Guthrie received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Ford Foundation to support research and field development in the areas of economic sociology, study of the corporation as a social institution, and corporate social responsibility. From 2001-06, he served as a visiting professor at Columbia Business School, Stanford Business School, the Goizueta Business School at Emory, INSEAD, and Harvard Business School.

In 2006, Doug Guthrie returned NYU Stern School of Business to take the position of professor of management (with a joint appointment as professor of sociology on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences). He taught in courses such as the Leadership Training for High Potentials Open Enrollment program. He also took up the post as director of executive education at Stern. In 2008, Guthrie began his relationship with the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, an Executive MBA school for executives in the creative industries, where he served as executive academic director. In the Summer of 2010, he was named Dean of the George Washington University School of Business.

Books

 * Politics and Partnerships: The Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector in the Era of the Declining Welfare State. Co-edited with Elisabeth Clemens (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).
 * China and Globalization: The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, Revised Edition. (New York: Routledge, 2009).
 * China and Globalization: The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society [First Edition]. (New York: Routledge, 2006).
 * Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi. Co-edited with Thomas Gold and David Wank (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
 * Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).

Articles (Selected)

 * “Inefficient Deregulation and the Global Economic Crisis: The United States and China Compared.” (Special Edition: Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the US Financial Crisis, Edited by Michael Loundsbury and Paul M. Hirsch.) Research in the Sociology of Organizations 30B: 283-312. (With David Slocum, 2010)
 * “Work and Productivity in Reform-Era China.” Research in the Sociology of Work 19: 35-73. (With Zhixing Xiao, and Junmin Wang, 2009)
 * “Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship: Institutional Innovation and Social Change.” European Management Review: 1-13. (With Rodolphe Durand 2008)
 * “Corporate Investment, Social Innovation, and Community Change: The Local Political Economy of Low-Income Housing Development.” City and Community 7(2): 113-40. (With Michael McQuarrie, 2008)
 * “Giving to Local Schools: Corporate Philanthropy and the Receding Welfare State.” Social Science Research 974: 1-18. (With Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, and Sarah Damaske, 2007)
 * “Privatization and the Social Contract: Corporate Welfare and Low-Income Housing in the United States since 1986.” Research in Political Sociology 14: 15-51. (With Michael McQuarrie, 2005)
 * “Organizational Learning and Productivity: State Structure and Foreign Investment in the Rise of the Chinese Corporation.” Management and Organization Review 1(2): 165-95. (2005)
 * “An Accidental Good: How Savvy Social Entrepreneurs Seized on a Tax Loophole to Raise Billions of Corporate Dollars for Affordable Housing.” Stanford Social Innovation Review (Fall): 34-44. (2004)
 * “The Quiet Revolution: The Emergence of Capitalism in China,” Harvard International Review 25(2): 48-53. (2003)
 * “The Transformation of Labor Relations in China’s Emerging Market Economy.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 19: 137-68. (2002)
 * “Understanding China’s Transition to Capitalism: The Contributions of Victor Nee and Andrew Walder.” Sociological Forum 15(4): 725-47. (2000)
 * “The State, Courts, and Equal Opportunities for Female CEOs in U.S. Organizations: Specifying Institutional Mechanisms.” Social Forces 78(2): 511-42. (With Louise Roth 1999)
 * “The State, Courts, and Maternity Leave Policies in U.S. Organizations: Specifying Institutional Mechanisms.” American Sociological Review 64(1): 41-63. (With Louise Roth 1999)
 * “The Declining Significance of Guanxi in China’s Economic Transition.” The China Quarterly 154: 31-62. (1998)
 * “Between Markets and Politics: Organizational Responses to Reform in China.” American Journal of Sociology 102: 1258-1303. (1997)