Master Professor
Duncan C. McDougall
 Duncan McDougall
"I offer my students the following two
“McDougall’s Laws of Management”:
1. You have to know what’s going on before you’ll know what to do about it; and 2. Tell why, then ask, “How?” As a writer I'm a simple-minded fellow, more interested in informing practice than in impressing fellow academics." |
Hall of Fame: | Inducted in 2006 Season I, 2006 (1 BSI Grand Champion) |
| BSG Tradition: | First adopted The Business Strategy Game for classroom use in 2003 (7th edition) | |
| School: | Plymouth State University, Department of Business, Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA 03264 | |
| Title: | Professor of Business Administration | |
| Education: | DBA in Production and Operations Management,
Harvard Business School, 1986. MBA, Harvard Business School, 1970. BA, Amherst College, 1965. |
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| Courses Taught: | Undergraduate: Administrative Policy, Management
Accounting Graduate: Operations Management, Accounting for Managers, and New Ventures & Entrepreneurship |
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| Research interests and selected publications: | My research activity over the years has been
centered at the junction of my two major teaching areas, operations
management and management accounting. From my business experience I
learned that the implementation of manufacturing strategy (which I
define as a planned, mutually consistent relationship between
competitive strategy and choices of and within manufacturing
systems) was problematic in many large companies… because the
choices needed to make manufacturing align with competitive
strategy would so often conflict with the companies' short term
performance measures. I.e., managers could be hanged for doing the
right things. For cases in point, see: "The Principle of Slack Ropes" and "Learning the Ropes" . Those looking for a summary of the focused factory concept in manufacturing strategy may find "The Focused Factory at Twenty" worth their time. |
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| Honors and Awards: | Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award, Plymouth
State University, 2004 Broderick Prize for Distinguished Teaching, Boston University School of Management, 1987 |
