C. R. Smith Professor of Business Administration

Room 389A COBA
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-7617
Email: Lee.A.Tavis.1@nd.edu

Lee Tavis (D.B.A. Indiana University 1969; M.B.A. Stanford 1960) is Director of the Program on Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. This program convenes study groups consisting of multinational corporate executives; national, state, and municipal governmental officials; representatives of international and indigenous nongovernmental organizations; academics from a number of disciplines; and representatives of international agencies. Groups examine specific issues that involve multinational corporate interaction with developing host societies. In addition to several publications on business planning models, Tavis has edited four books drawn from the seminars and research he organizes on Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns published by the University of Notre Dame Press and he is author of Volume V, Power and Responsibility: Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns (1997), as well as a series of articles on the "developmental responsibility" of multinational corporations. His work on developmental responsibility has been supported by a major grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and 32 multinational corporations. Tavis has organized and participated in field studies in Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Kenya, Korea, The People's Republic of China, The Philippines, Mexico, and South Africa. He is the recipient of four teaching awards at the University of Texas and five at the University of Notre Dame. He and his wife Sparky were co-recipients of a Hesburgh Presidential Award in 1984. He received the 1993 University of Notre Dame Faculty Award and the 1998 Reinhold Niebuhr Award for work in social justice. Tavis has been a Fellow of the Kroc Institute since 1991.

 

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