Kim S. Cameron

Kim Sterling Cameron (born 1946) is the William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and the former dean of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

Biography

Early life

He attended Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah from which he graduated in 1964. He then received a bachelors from Brigham Young University in 1970. At BYU, served as Student Body Vice President, was a basketball player, and dated Ann Davies (who later married Mitt Romney) before marrying Melinda Cummings, daughter of Hollywood actor Robert Cummings. He and Melinda are the parents of seven children.^{[citation needed]}

Academia

After earning a masters at BYU, Cameron became a faculty member at Ricks College. He then went on to earn a Masters and Ph.D. in administrative sciences from Yale University.

Cameron has served as Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management at BYU and as Dean of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He has written or edited 13 scholarly books and been published in more than 120 academic articles. He co-founded the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the University of Michigan, and his work in conjunction with the Center was recognized as one of the top 20 high-impact ideas of 2004 by Harvard Business Review.

Among other ideas, Cameron advanced the notion that downsizing is not an effective business strategy. Cameron's latest scholarly work Positive Leadership examines the research demonstrating that positive leadership and virtuous practices in organizations lead to extraordinary performance.

Church service

Cameron is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He wrote several articles for the Encyclopedia of Mormonism and served as president of the Ann Arbor Michigan Stake. He currently serves as Stake Patriarch in the Ann Arbor Michigan Stake.

References

• University of Michigan faculty biography
• Kim S. Cameron biography at Brigham Young Academy & Brigham Young University High School