Doug Guthrie

Doug Guthrie is an Organizational Sociologist and China scholar. Currently, he is a Senior Director and Apple University Faculty Member at Apple Inc. Prior to joining Apple, he served as dean at The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) in Washington DC from 2010–13 and Vice President for University-Wide China Operations in 2013. Prior to joining 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. Currently, he works with the Apple University team on organizational/talent/leadership development, focusing on China/APAC. He lives in Shanghai, China.