Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
David A. Owens serves on the faculty at Vanderbilt University's
Graduate School of Management in the area of organizational
behavior. Specializing in strategic innovation in
business, Professor Owens teaches graduate-level business
courses in strategic management and innovation, product
design and development, and organizational design.
He also delivers executive education programs and
consulting services to a wide range of clients in
the U.S. and Europe. A dynamic teacher, Professor
Owens receives top teaching ratings from participants
in his executive and MBA programs. His work has been
featured in the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, London Guardian and
San Jose Mercury News, as well as on NPR's
Marketplace. His education and consulting
clients include Kimberly Clark, LEGO, NASA, Bristol
Myers Squibb, Corning World Kitchen, Alcatel, Daimler-Benz,
the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Baptist Hospital,
among others. While on leave from the university in
2007 and 2008, Professor Owens served as CEO of Griffin
Technology Inc, a global producer of accessories for
the MP3 / iPod market. Prior to becoming a professor,
Professor Owens also worked as a product designer
and design engineer at IDEO, a premiere global product-development
firm. Professor Owens holds a Ph.D. from Stanford
University in industrial engineering with an emphasis
in organization studies; and an M.S. degree from Stanford
in product design.
