Mentoring in Academia: A Conversation with Lyman Porter

Keywords

Lyman W. Porter, management education, organizational psychology

Abstract

Dr. Lyman W. Porter is currently a professor emeritus of management at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Porter received his doctoral degree in psychology in 1956 from Yale University. He was a member of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, until 1967, when he joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and has been on the faculty there for the past 32 years. His professional accomplishments are numerous. He is a past president of both the Academy of Management. In addition, he received the academy's Scholarly Contributions to Management Award in 1983. Dr. Porter has served as the dean of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine, and has also been heavily involved during much of his career with the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). His book, Management Education and Development (coauthored with Lawrence McKibbin in 1988), has become a standard guide for university business schools and academicians interested in issues of management education.

Original Publication Citation

Nielson, T. R., & Eisenbach, R. J. (2001). “Mentoring in academia: A conversation with Lyman Porter.” Journal of Management Inquiry, 10(2), 183-189.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2001

Publisher

Journal of Management Inquiry

Language

English

College

Marriott School of Business

Department

Marketing

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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