Peter Boumgarden
Koch Family Professor of Practice in Family Enterprise and Director of the Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise at the Olin Business School
From a school leadership standpoint, Peter is the Director of the Koch Family Business Center and the Faculty Director for the Center for Experiential Learning at Olin, a university center that runs for-profit & non-profit student-led strategic consulting engagement in the St. Louis region and around the globe. Outside of his role in the university, Dr. Boumgarden researches, consults, and facilitates executive education in the private and non-profit sectors on topics tied to innovation, strategic design, organizational change, and executive team development. A select set of past clients include Mastercard, AB Inbev, Edward Jones, General Electric, Charles Schwab, Oracle, Bunge Global, CCA Global, Benson Hill, Centene, and Bayer/Monsanto, amongst others. Dr. Boumgarden’s work centers on helping organizations develop processes for innovation, assisting leaders in defining and implementing sustainably differentiating strategies, and the role of leadership and organizational values in shaping such decisions.
At Washington University, Peter teaches leadership, organizational design, and strategic management within Olin’s MBA, BSBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education programs. Previously to his role at Olin, Peter was a tenured Associate Professor of Management at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. In the spring of 2018, Dr. Boumgarden was a Visiting Lecturer in Strategy at Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In addition to his work at the Koch Center and the Center for Experiential Learning, Peter co-leads the school’s “Healthcare at Olin” strategic planning group, which focuses on the role of business education in preparing next-generation leaders to strategically lead in the business of healthcare. In his work with executives outside of Olin, Peter is an Affiliated Faculty at the Ross School of Business and a Faculty Affiliate at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan— a University Center on business in emerging markets. In 2015, the National Science Foundation selected Dr. Boumgarden as an entrepreneurial mentor in its I-Corp program, a model for bringing high-impact technology from university to market. Specific to service, Peter has served on the board of several non-profits within the West Michigan and St. Louis markets.
Dr. Boumgarden completed his Ph.D. in Strategy and Organizations at Washington University in St. Louis. At Olin, Peter won the Hubert C. Moog Scholarship for excellence in doctoral research. At Olin, Peter researched the link between structural change and long-term organizational performance (USA Today and Hewlett-Packard), the biases of investment in corporate innovation (Bunge Global), and the relationship between team structure and innovation (Intel). He is currently engaged in a project on analyzing early-stage investment strategies in venture capital and assessing the historical design of the modern business school and its implications for the transfer of social science technologies to the market. His academic work appears in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, and Judgement & Decision Making. His practitioner work appears in the online arms of Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the LA Review of Books.