Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage [RENTAL EDITION]

Dr. Jeffrey K. Pinto is the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in the Management of Technology in the Sam and Irene School of Business at Penn State, the Behrend College. Dr. Pinto held previous academic appointments at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Maine. In 2016 he was a visiting scholar at the Kemmy School of Business, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the Program Chair for Penn State’s Master of Project Management program.

The author or editor of 28 books and over 150 scientific papers that have appeared in a variety of academic and practitioner journals, books, conference proceedings, video lessons, and technical reports, Dr. Pinto’s work has been translated into 9 languages. He served as Editor of the Project Management Journal, is past-Department Editor for R&D and engineering projects with IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and serves on several other journal editorial boards.

With over 30 years’ experience in the field of project management, Dr. Pinto is a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute for outstanding service to the project management profession. He received PMI’s Research Achievement Award in 2009 for outstanding contributions to project management research. In 2017, he received the Research Achievement Award from the International Project Management Association in recognition of his career research contributions to the field of project management.

Dr. Pinto has taught and consulted widely in North America, South America and Europe on a variety of topics, including project management, new product development, supply chain management, information systems implementation, organization development, leadership, and conflict resolution.