Professor of Management

Phone: 994-4682
Office: 317 Reid Hall
Email: See COB Directory

Curriculum Vita

Dr. F. William "Bill" Brown

F. William "Bill" Brown is a Professor of Management in the College of Business at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. At the university, he teaches courses on leadership, management, and strategy, and consults with a variety of business and industry clients. Bill is a native of New Orleans. Before becoming an academic and consultant, he had a 20-year career as an Army officer serving in a variety of leadership positions both in the US and overseas.

Prior to coming to Montana State University, Bill was a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Baylor University. At those universities he taught management and leadership courses and did university-sponsored consulting work with business, industry, academic, and governmental organizations. In addition to his bachelor's degree in Psychology, he has a master's degree in Public Administration, an MBA, and received the Ph.D. in Business Administration from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Like his teaching and consulting, his research and writing interests center on Leadership, Management, and Organizational Development. He co-authored a textbook, Interpersonal Skills for Leadership, published by Prentice Hall in 1999 and 2005, is the editor of Perspectives on Management, published by CourseWise Inc. The recipient of numerous teaching awards and the author of numerous articles on management and leadership, his work has been published in The Journal of Applied Psychology, The Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Journal of Business and Management, The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, The Journal of Management Consulting, The Journal of Extension, The Journal of Leadership Studies, and Leadership and Organization Development Journal.

When Bill is not working, he can most likely be found pursuing his twin passions of fishing and shotgun sports or traveling and hiking somewhere in the Rocky Mountain west with his wife and dogs.