Bill Bigler
Name: William R. Bigler
Title: MBA Program Dir & Associate Professor
Start Year at LSUS: 2008
Department: Associate Dean's Office College Of Business/education & Human Development
Office Location: Business & Education Building 329
Office Phone: 318-797-5213
Email: bill.bigler@lsus.edu
Office Hours:
Changes every semester but Darlene Player at dplayer@lsus.edu or 797-5052 can set up an appointment.
Teaching Assignments:
MADM 760 - Organizational Strategies and Policies - the Capston MBA Strategy Course
BADM 791 - Innovation in the Established Firm
BADM 792 - World Class Strategy Execution
Research Interests:
Business Unit Strategy Formulation
Innovation
Profitable Growth
World Class Strategy Execution
Enterprise Wide Risk Management
Firm Valuation and Shareholder Wealth Disciplines
Selected Publications:
Book:
The New Science of Strategy Execution: How Established Firms Become Fast, Sleek Wealth Creators, Praeger, 2004.
Articles:
Increasing Shareholder Wealth by Linking Board, Executive and Manager Decision Points, Advanced Management Journal, Spring 2010
Strategy Execution Through Executive Process Innovation: A Longitudinal Case Example and Research Model. International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2009.
Personal Bio: Bill returned to academia in January 2008 after 25 years of strategy consulting experience in several global consulting firms and his own boutique firm. His teaching, research and practice interests are in the linkages among robust strategy formulation, innovation, profitable growth, strategy execution, enterprise wide risk management and firm valuation. He is keenly interested in marrying theory with practice for the benefit of the business community and contributions to applied theory.
