Dr. Scott Snell is the E. Thayer Bigelow Research Chair in Business Administration and former Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. Professor Snell teaches courses in strategic management and leadership and has worked with companies such as Changan Motors (China), AstraZeneca, Heineken, Deutsche Telekom, and Shell to align strategy, capability, and investments in talent. Scott is an award-winning researcher and is listed among the top 100 most-cited authors in scholarly journals of management.

Prior to joining the Darden faculty, Dr. Snell was a professor of management in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University and a professor and director of executive education at Cornell University’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies. He got his B.A. from Miami University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in business from Michigan State University.