L. J. BOURGEOIS, III

Associate Dean for International Affairs
Paul M. Hammaker Research Professor
Director, Tayloe Murphy International Center
Darden Graduate School of Business
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 6550, Charlottesville, VA 22906
804-924-4833

At Darden since 1986, Professor Jay Bourgeois has led the Strategy area and currently conducts research on post-merger integration. As Associate Dean for International Affairs and Director of the Tayloe Murphy Center, Bourgeois represents the Darden School internationally and is responsible for its globalization strategy.  For the ten years in which he taught in Darden's 6-week senior executive program, he was its top-rated instructor.  He currently teaches MBA courses in advanced strategy and post-merger integration and Executive Education programs in Strategic Thinking and Action, Post-Merger Integration, and several custom programs.

Professor Bourgeois has consulted to more than 50 firms and governments around the world on strategy, mission development, and post-merger integration, and conducted various seminars in strategic thinking. He has worked in several industries, including airlines, banking, computers, electronics, food processing, government, higher education, insurance, law, mining, oil exploration, public accounting, shipping, and telecommunications. Clients include Standard & Poors, Disney Development Corporation, Bacardi, Qantas Airlines, Department of Homeland Security, Wolseley Plc, and the Army Corps of Engineers. He is also an Associate of the BCG Institute and a member of the Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations.

Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Professor Bourgeois taught at the Stanford Business School where he was Director of the Strategic Management Program.  Mr. Bourgeois received his Ph.D. in strategic management and international business from the University of Washington in 1978, where he wrote and award-winning dissertation about strategic decision-making in firms facing volatile environments.  After receiving his M.B.A. from Tulane University in 1970, Mr. Bourgeois was employed as a financial analyst in the corporate planning department of Dole Foods. He then held several assignments in the firm's Latin American operations, including new product project management, residential subdivision development, labor negotiations, and manager of industrial engineering.  Fluent in Spanish, Professor Bourgeois grew up in Venezuela.

Professor Bourgeois authored Strategic Management:From Concept to Implementation, published by Dryden Press, as well as over sixty cases and articles in various management journals and books.