Biography
Peter Lorenzi is professor of management at Loyola University Maryland. Lorenzi earned
his B.S. in Administrative Science (1973) and his M.B.A. (1975) from Binghamton University
and his Ph.D. in 1978 from the Pennsylvania State University. A leadership researcher
and educator, he earned teaching honors at Kansas, Marquette, and Wyoming for innovative
teaching, classroom effectiveness, student learning, and contributions to a quality
education. He co-authored Management: Quality and Competitiveness (McGraw-Hill, 1994,
1997) and The New Leadership Paradigm (Sage, 1992), authored a guide for prospective
business undergraduates (B-School Confidential), and edited Experiential Organizational
Behavior (Macmillan, 1981). As a Loyola faculty member, he has been primarily responsible
for teaching management and leadership in the MBA program while he conducted research,
developed teaching materials and published articles on prosocial leadership and social
entrepreneurship. He has authored more than eighty articles, columns and academic
presentations. He has lectured in England, India, Malaysia, Russia, China, and Chile.
As a Fulbright specialist, he assisted in the development of a new business school
in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine. Lorenzi has taught in management development programs and
has lectured on leadership, management, and global competitiveness across the United
States and in Europe, South America, and Asia. Clients have included Rockwell International,
AEGON, General Motors PEL, Coca-Cola, the USAID and Malaysia's Sunwei Group.
From 1995 to 2001, Lorenzi served as dean of Loyola's Sellinger School of Business
and Management. AACSB-accredited, the Sellinger School enrolled about 2,000 undergraduate
and graduate students each year, with full-time, residential undergraduate programs
and evening and week end graduate programs for working professionals. Under his leadership,
US News & World Report first ranked the Sellinger MBA program among the nation's top
twenty-five part-time programs. In 1998, Loyola opened a graduate and executive campus
in suburban Timonium and, in 2000, Sellinger faculty and undergraduates moved into
their new, award-winning $14 million business school building on the main Evergreen
campus. A third new Sellinger facility opened in Columbia (Maryland) in 2001.
Lorenzi served as dean of the College of Business Administration at the University
of Central Arkansas from 1992 to 1995. He led a successful reaffirmation of accreditation
effort, increased enrollments, expanded global programs and the number of foreign
students, and championed information technology. From 1987 to 1992, he was associate
dean and associate professor of management at Marquette University, when the business
school had consecutive record freshmen business enrollments. He established the business
honors program and initiated business study abroad and a community service learning
programs. From 1978 to 1986, Lorenzi was a University of Kansas business professor
where he also directed the undergraduate business program. He had visiting professor
appointments at the universities of Wyoming (1982-83) and North Carolina at Chapel
Hill (1986).
Academic Degrees
Ph D, The Pennsylvania State University.
MBA, Binghamton University.
BS, Binghamton University.
Representative Publications
Peter Lorenzi, Taxing antisocial behavior for the common good, Society, 47(4) 2010,
328-332.
Peter Lorenzi, Qiyu Zhang and Roberto Friedmann, Looking for Sin in All the Wrong
Places: An Empirical Investigation of the Affluenza Construct, Journal of Behavioral
and Applied Management, 11(3) 2010.
Peter Lorenzi and Francis G. Hilton, Spreading the wealth, Society, 46(3) 2009, 30-34.
Lorenzi, P., Affluence, consumption and the American lifestyle, Society, 45, 2, (2008),
p. 107-11.
Lorenzi, P., The prosocial counterpart to sin taxes, Society, (2007).
Kashlak, R. J., Lorenzi, P., Cummings, J. L., Strategically assessing international
business learning aims: A proposed model, Journal of Teaching in International Business,
18, 2/3, (2007).
Awards and Honors
Fulbright Technical Specialist, www.cies.org. (May 20, 2004).