Outstanding Research Award
Daniel C. Feldman
Synovus Chair of Servant Leadership
Associate Dean for Research
Winner, 2007 Terry College of Business Outstanding Research Award
Daniel Feldman joined the Terry College in 2003.He has served on the faculties of Yale College, University of Minnesota Industrial Relations Center, Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, University of Florida, as the James Bradley Distinguished Foundation Fellow at USC's Moore School of Business, and as a Visiting Sloan Scholar at MIT.
He received his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he combined undergraduate studies in social sciences in the College of Liberal Arts with business administration studies in the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance. He was named Benjamin Franklin National Scholar, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was graduated summa cum laude. He attended Yale University Graduate School, where he received his M.A. in Administrative Sciences and his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior.
Dr. Feldman served as Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Management from 2002-2005. He has also served as Consulting Editor for Journal of Organizational Behavior and currently serves as Associate Editor for Human Resource Management. He has served on numerous other editorial boards as well, including AMJ and OBHDP. Professor Feldman served as Chair of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management and on the Executive Committee of its Organizational Behavior Division. At USC, Professor Feldman served as Chair of both the University Tenure and Promotion Committee and the University Faculty Advisory Committee and was faculty liaison to the Board of Trustees. He has been Director of the Ph.D. Program in Management at both USC and UF and MBA concentration advisor at both Northwestern and UF.
Daniel has written six books and over 125 articles on career development and career management. His co-authored book, Coping with Job Loss: How Individuals, Organizations, and Communities Respond to Layoffs, was named one of the four outstanding books of the year by the Academy of Management and his work on job loss has been cited in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In 1997, he was the recipient of USC's Educational Foundation Research Award for being the outstanding researcher in the professional schools. He has also won a J. L. Kellogg Research Professorship for his work on socialization and job change, a CIBER Fellowship for his work on expatriation, a Riegel and Emory Fellowship for his work on downsizing, the Addison-Wesley Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management for his work on early retirement incentives, the Cason Hall Best Paper Award for his work on part-time employment, and the Careers Division Best Paper Award for his work on early career indecision.
Professor Feldman has won numerous teaching awards, including being voted MBA Teacher of the Year five times at the University of Florida. At USC, he received the Alfred G. Smith Award for Teaching Excellence (outstanding teacher in the Moore School of Business), the Michael A. Hill Distinguished Faculty Award (outstanding teacher in the Honors College), and was named an Eli Lilly Senior Teaching Fellow (university-level award). At the University of Georgia, he won an Outstanding Teacher Award in 2005. He has done executive education programs for a wide variety of firms including Honeywell, Milliken, J.C. Penney, Knight-Ridder, the U.S. Health Care Finance Administration, American Red Cross, AMA, and Duke Energy.
