Education

• PhD, Penn State University, 1994
• BS, Penn State University, 1988

Professional Activities

David J. Ketchen, Jr. (Dave) serves as Harbert Eminent Scholar and Professor of Management within Auburn University’s Harbert College of Business.
   
Dave’s research centers on the intersection of strategic management, supply chain management, and entrepreneurship. Several of his recent studies have been featured in the Wall Street Journal. Dave has served in editorial roles for ten academic journals, co-edited twenty-six special issues, and served on fifteen editorial review boards. Overall, he has published more than 200 articles in academic journals and this work has been cited by other researchers more than 65,000 times.
   
In 2018, Auburn awarded Dave the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award (the highest overall faculty achievement award the university offers) and the Creative Research and Scholarship Award (the highest research award the university offers). In 2023, he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He was the second Auburn professor to earn this distinction and the first since 1979. In 2024, research.com ranked him 21st in the United States and 36th in the world among the Top 1000 scientists in Business and Management.
   
Dave has spoken pro bono about entrepreneurship and strategy within more than a dozen programs for military veterans engaged in entrepreneurship. He serves on the board of directors for the Why Not Win Institute, a non-profit devoted to cultivating personal excellence and accountability among corporate, collegiate, and secondary school audiences. He also has served within the Brewers Association Mentoring Program as a mentor on business issues for entrepreneurs as part of the program’s goal of increasing brewing industry opportunities for underrepresented groups.
   
Dave was part of the multidisciplinary teaching team that developed an online Master of Science (MS) degree in Brewing Science and Operations and an online Graduate Certificate in Brewing Science and Operations. He also has developed an online course on Franchising in partnership with Professor Franz Lohrke and one on Winning Skills for Success in Business and in Life.