Margarethe F. Wiersema holds the Dean’s Professorship in Strategic Management at The Paul
Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. She has an MBA and Ph.D. from the
Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching, Professor Wiersema was
awarded an honorary doctorate by the Copenhagen Business School in recognition of a remarkable
contribution to research dissemination and education. She is a Strategic Management Society
Fellow for making significant contributions to the theory and practice of strategic management. In
2006, she was awarded the Distinguished PhD Alumni Award from the Ross School of Business at
the University of Michigan. She is an International Fellow for the Advanced Institute of
Management Research in the UK. In 2022, she was awarded the Academy of Management Irwin
Outstanding Educator Award. Also in 2022, she was awarded the Strategic Management Society’s
Service Award. She has received numerous teaching awards for the Executive MBA and Health
Care Executive MBA program at UCI. She has served on the faculty of the Business Schools at the
University of Michigan and Rice University and as a visiting scholar at London Business School
and Copenhagen Business School.
Professor Wiersema is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts on corporate strategy
and corporate governance with more than 70 publications and over 16,000 citations and her research
has appeared in the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, Fortune, Business Week,
the Washington Post, and The Economist Intelligence Unit for their “Executive Briefing”. She has
published extensively in the premier journals in the field including the Harvard Business Review,
Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and Administrative Science
Quarterly. She serves as the chair of the board of the International Corporate Governance Society,
on the Senior Advisory Board of the Global Strategy Journal, and as editor of Strategic
Organization. She served as Dean of the Fellows of the Strategic Management Society, Associate
Editor of Strategic Management Journal, Associate Editor of Academy of Management
Perspectives, Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society, and Past President of the
Corporate Strategy and Governance Group of the Strategic Management Society.
Professor Wiersema is actively involved with the business community by providing expertise on the
subject of strategic analysis and thinking as well as the role of the Board of Directors and corporate
governance. She has addressed a variety of business audiences and has consulted with both public
and privately held companies and is actively involved in executive education. She has also worked
with many new ventures and start ups on their business plans and strategy.
