Goodyear Executive Professorship
The Goodyear Executive Professorship was established at Kent State University's College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management in 1973 by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Under the direction of Charles J. Pilliod, then the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, the Goodyear Chair was intended, and continues, to provide a bridge between the academic and business communities.
This is accomplished by bringing an experienced corporate executive (non-academic) to the Kent State campus, as the Goodyear Executive Professor, to instruct students and to participate in and direct University programs designed to enhance the preparedness of future managers and executives through the examination and mastery of "real world" aspects of business.
The Office of the Goodyear Professor plans and coordinates the Pilliod Lecture Series. Two times each year, since 1983, distinguished speakers address significant business issues and topics of related interest.
The current Goodyear Executive Professor, Gregory P. Hackett, joined the Kent faculty in August of 2006. Greg Hackett was founder of The Hackett Group, the world's foremost benchmarking firm in the knowledge-worker field, which he established in 1992 and merged with AnswerThink Consulting Group in 1997. During 20 years of management consulting experience, Greg led numerous assignments for clients across all major industry segments worldwide. He is a leading-edge thinker and pioneer regarding structural change, organizational reengineering and tactical planning.
Prior to forming The Hackett Group, Greg had a 10-year tenure at Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc., where he conducted organizational restructuring assignments in finance, manufacturing, sales and marketing in a variety of industries.
Greg holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Kent State University and a master of business administration degree from Miami University of Ohio, where he has been a member of the Advisory Council of its business school. He is a published authority on operations improvement and has been a frequent and popular lecturer at professional society and industry association conferences throughout the United States and abroad. He is a long-time member of the editorial advisory board of CFO magazine and was a founding judge of the REACH Awards, the financial reengineering equivalent of The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards.
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