Alexander B. Horniman
Killgallon Ohio Art Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Senior Fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics
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Education: A.B., Middlebury College; MBA, University of California at Los Angeles; D.B.A., Harvard University
Killgallon Ohio Art Professor Emeritus Alexander Horniman taught in the ethics, strategy and leadership areas at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is also a senior fellow in the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and served as founding director of the Olsson Center, one of the first university-based ethics centers. Horniman has developed a number of executive education experiences ranging in length from several days to multiple weeks. His current teaching and research interests focus on the areas of strategy, leadership, individual and organizational change, high performance, and the moral and ethical issues of leadership.
Before joining Darden, he spent a number of years in the United States Army and with the aerospace firm of North American Aviation. While doing doctoral work, he was a special consultant to the secretary of defense. He also taught at California State at Northridge and Suffolk University in Boston.
Case Studies
Advancing knowledge through research that shapes business, Darden professors are recognized thought leaders in their fields. They are not only master case method teachers, they also author many of the cases used in Darden classrooms and around the world.
Alexander B. Horniman's cases are available in the Darden Business Publishing website.