David A. Thomas (academic)

David A. Thomas
Born	September 26, 1956
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Education	Yale University (BA), 1978 Columbia University (MA), 1981 Yale University (PhD), 1986
Organization	McDonough School of Business, Harvard Business School, Wharton School
Website	http://msb.georgetown.edu/about/the-school/dean

David Anthony Thomas (born September 26, 1956) was Dean and William R. Berkley Chair of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He was appointed Dean at Georgetown University in August 2011. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Thomas was the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School from 1990 to 2011, where he directed the school's Organizational Behavior Unit. He also served as senior associate dean and director of faculty recruitment at Harvard from 2005 to 2008; led its business school's required first-year MBA course, "Leadership and Organizational Behavior"; and held the position of faculty chair for several executive education programs. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 1990, Dr. Thomas was an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1990.

Thomas grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Administrative Sciences from Yale University from 1974 to 1978. After earning his Bachelors at Yale, he attended Columbia University in the City of New York to earn a Masters in Organizational Psychology. He completed his MA at Columbia in 1981 and returned to Yale to earn his Master of Philosophy in 1984 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1986.

After earning his Doctorate in 1986, Thomas was hired as an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Upon his appointment, he was awarded the title of Atlantic Richfield Foundation Term Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management. He held both of these teaching and research positions until 1990 when he moved to Harvard Business School.

In 1990, David Thomas began as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and by 1993 was promoted to Associate Professor of Business Administration. In 1999 he served for one year as Professor of Business Administration until he was awarded the title H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration. He held this title until 2011 when he left Harvard to join the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University as Dean. In 2005, Harvard also appointed him Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Recruiting and in 2006 he was appointed as Unit Head of Harvard's Organizational Behavior Unit.

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