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John M. Thomas
Professor
Operations Management and Strategy
University at Buffalo
258 Jacobs Management Center
Buffalo, NY 14260-4000

Tel:  716-645-3217
Fax: 716-645-5926
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John M. Thomas

Professor

Department of Operations Management and Strategy

Education

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JD, University at Buffalo
BS, Yale University

John Thomas has been a member of the UB faculty since 1968. As a professor in the School of Management, and associate dean for international programs, he developed UB's Executive MBA program in Beijing in conjunction with Renmin University. The program recently was designated as the best program of its type in China by the Chinese Ministry of Education.

He also has been instrumental in the development and delivery of the school's Executive MBA programs in China and Singapore, as well as programs in Latvia and Hungary. He designed the international management option for the School of Management's full-time MBA program and has taught international business in its domestic Executive MBA program.

He is also an adjunct professor of law and social policy in the law school.

Thomas, who joined the UB faculty as an assistant professor of policy sciences, was director of UB's Center for Policy Studies and the university's J.D.-Ph.D. program in policy studies from 1979-86.

He has been a visiting faculty member at the Institute for Comparative and International Law at Magdalen College of Oxford University, visiting fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Wolfson College of Oxford University and visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta.

He was awarded the Medal of the Riga Technical University in Latvia in 1998 and was named an honorary member of the faculty of Budapest Technical University in 1995.

Selected Publications

Hawkins, K. and Thomas, John M., Making Regulatory Policy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

Hawkins, K. and Thomas, John M., Enforcing Regulation. Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1984.

Bennis, W., and Thomas, John M., The Management of Change and Conflict. London: Penguin Books, 1972.

Professional Associations

  • Board of Directors, Buffalo Niagara World Trade Center
  • Academy of International Business Academy of Management Member, Committee on Asian Law, Asia Studies Association

International Activities

Consultant, Management Education Needs Assessment, Hungary, SUNY-U.S.A.I.D. Consultant, Management Education, World Bank, Nepal Project Director, U.S.A.I.D. Management and Economics Education for Central Europe Director, China Management Education Program with Renmin University, Beijing, China Director, Singapore Executive MBA Program

Other Experience

  • Co-Editor, Series on Law and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania Press, (1988-1995)
  • Editor, Law and Policy (1983-1987)