University of Richmond Professor Installed as E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Business
December 9, 2005
Stephen B. Tallman was installed as the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Business at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business in a ceremony Dec. 7.
Tallman came to the university this year from the University of Utah where he was David Eccles Professor of Management and chair of the management and marketing department.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served as an officer in the U.S. Army for six years. He earned his Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. in 1988 in international business and comparative management with a concentration in strategic management.
Tallman has published numerous journal articles and chapters in several books and conference volumes. He is co-author of two books on alliance and joint venture strategies. He served as chair of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management and chair of the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. In 1999 he was named a Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar.
His current primary research interests include globalization strategies, capabilities-based strategy, international diversification strategies, industry clusters and issues surrounding international business alliances and joint ventures.
The E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Business honors the memory of the University’s greatest philanthropist who died in 1995. The business school also is named for him. The professorship is awarded to an individual of exceptional talent and distinction, whose scholarship and teaching make him/her a model of accomplishment for other members of the University, the Robins School faculty or the profession nationally.