Curriculum Vitae of Michael Maccoby

Current Positions

Academic Positions

Instructor, College of the University of Chicago (Social Sciences 2), 1955-56; Teaching Fellow, Harvard Department of Social Relations, 1957-60; Secretary to Committee on Educational Policy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1956-60; Visiting Professor, School of Political and Social Sciences, National University of Mexico, 1960; Professor, Graduate course in Clinical Psychology, Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1964-66; Professor Cornell Summer School, 1966; Visiting Professor in Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1967-68; Faculty Member, Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1970-75; Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., 1969-75; Faculty Member, Washington School of Psychiatry, 1975-87; Director, Program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development, J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, 1978-1990; Adjunct Research Fellow, Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School, Harvard, 1990-93, Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, 1998, 2009, 2010, 2011, Teacher and Assoicate Fellow, Templeton College and Saïd Business School, Oxford 2004-.

Consultancies (partial listing)

AT&T, 1977-2000; Communications Workers of America, 1980-88, 1993-94, 2002; A.B. Volvo, 1975-90; U.S. Department of Commerce, 1977-81; U.S. Department of State 1978-84; World Bank, 1978-80, 1988-89, 1995-99; Swedish Council on Management and Work Life Issues, 1982-87; Bricklayers and Allied Craftsman and International Masonry Institute, 1984-2000; Library of Congress, 1988; Facilitator, National Leadership Commission on Health Care, 1986-88; National Coalition on Health Care, 1989-; American Federation of Teachers, 1990-92 & 2004; The MITRE Corporation, 1990-96; Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, 1992-93; Cultor, 1988-1999; ABB, 1988-1999; Swedbank, 1987-2000; Georgetown University Medical Center, 1995-96; Scripps Healthcare, 1998-2000; Penn State Medical Center, Geisinger Healthcare, 1998-1999; George Washington University, 1999-2005; DAI 2000-2008; US Army Corps of Engineers, 2007; BT, 2007-2008.

Books Authored

The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow

Harvard Business School Press, November 2007.

Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails.

Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007. (paperback)

Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Design

with Charles Heckscher, Rafael Ramirez, and Pierre-Eric Tixier.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership

New York: Broadway Books, 2003.

Social Character in a Mexican Village

with Erich Fromm

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1970. Reprinted with new introduction, Transaction Press, 1996.

A Prophetic Analyst: Erich Fromm’s Contributions to Psychoanalysis

Mauricio Cortina and Michael Maccoby, editors.

Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1996.

Why Work?: Motivating the New Workforce

Second Edition, Miles River Press: Alexandria, VA, 1995.

Sweden At the Edge: Lessons For American and Swedish Managers

Editor., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Leadership for Sweden

with Anders Edstrom, Stromberg Lennart, and Jan Erik Rendahl.

Lund, Sweden: Liber, 1985.

The Leader: A New Face for American Management

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

The Gamesman: The New Corporate Leaders

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.

Social Character and Social Change in Mexico and the United States

Cuernavaca: CIDOC, 1970.

Clinical Work

Private practice of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, 1962-1988.

Memberships

Phi Beta Kappa, American Psychological Association (Fellow), American Anthropological Association (Fellow), Society for Applied Anthropology (Fellow), National Academy of Public Administration (Fellow), Global Business Network, Cosmos Club.

Board Memberships

International Group Plans, Inc., 1978-80; SMG North America, 1989-96; Our Little Brothers and Sisters, Inc., 1977-; Tällberg Foundation, 1990-2005; Washington School of Psychiatry, 1997-2011. Albert Shanker Institute, 2006-

Education

Mt. Vernon, New York public schools; Harvard, B.A. (m.c.l.) 1954; Ph.D., Department of Social Relations (Social Psychology and Personality) 1960; New College, Oxford, 1954-55; University of Chicago, 1955-56 (Human Development); Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis (Degree in Psychoanalysis), 1964.

Fellowships

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1954-55, New College, Oxford; National Institute of Mental Health Research and Training Fellowship, 1960-63, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, The Medical School, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1968-69, Saïd School, Oxford University, Associate Fellow, 2011.

Honors

Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star (Sweden)

Personal

b. 1933, Mt Vernon, N.Y.; married 1959 to Sandylee Weille; children: Anne Maccoby Berglof, Izette Folger, Nora Maccoby Hathaway, Max Maccoby. Grandchildren: Alexandra Berglof, Nick Folger, Camilla Folger, Katerina Berglof, William Hathaway, Ida B. Maccoby.

Last updated - October 2011

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