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Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Ph.D.
Executive Chairman
Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Ph.D., is Executive Chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc., a consulting and training company he founded in 1990. Schoemaker served as the company's CEO for 16 years, leading it into strategic planning, executive development and multi-media software. He is an internationally renowned thought leader in strategy and decision making who has given many seminars to executives in Europe, America and the Far East. He has appeared on radio and television, and shared stage billings with President Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, Rudolph Giuliani, Jack Welch and other public leaders. He lectured frequently in executive programs at Berkeley, Cedep at Insead, Cornell University, Univ. of Chicago and still does so at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During 1982-1984, Dr. Schoemaker took an extended full-time sabbatical with the strategy group of Royal Dutch/Shell in London, where he helped pioneer scenario planning. He has since helped over a hundred organizations around the world in both the private and public sectors.
Schoemaker further serves as the Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also teaches strategy and decision-making as a part-time professor. For over twelve years, he was a professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Cedep at Insead (France). He started his studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in physics in 1972. Later, he received an M.B.A. in Finance, an M.A. in Management and a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences, all three degrees from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Board Member of the Decision Education Foundation (www.decisioneducation.org).
Schoemaker's main research interests are in the areas of organizational strategy, decision theory, managerial decision-making, emerging technologies and innovation. He has written over 100 academic and applied papers, which have appeared in journals ranging from the Harvard Business Review and the Journal of Mathematical Psychology to Management Science and the Journal of Economic Literature. His first book Experiments on Decisions Under Risk (Kluwer Nijhoff Publishing, 1980) received a two-page author profile in Fortune Magazine. With J. Edward Russo he wrote the best-selling book Decision Traps (Simon & Schuster, 1990), which discusses various biases in decision making (as profiled in Newsweek). With Kleindorfer and Kunreuther, Schoemaker wrote an acclaimed graduate-level text titled Decision Sciences: An Integrative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1993). With George Day, he edited the book Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies (Wiley, 2000). Other works included a managerial book on scenario planning titled Profiting from Uncertainty (Free Press, 2002), and with J. Edward Russo he published Winning Decisions (Doubleday, 2002.) In May 2006, Drs. Schoemaker and Day published Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company (Harvard Business School Press).
Schoemaker's publications received several awards (including the prestigious Best Paper Prize of the Strategic Management Journal in 2000), have been reprinted frequently, and are published in over 10 foreign languages. He has been published multiple times in the Harvard Business Review and his 1995 article Scenario Planning is the second most reprinted publication in the 41 year history of the Sloan Management Review. He ranks among the top 1% most frequently cited academic researchers in the fields of business and economics worldwide (www.ISIHighlyCited.com). Dr. Schoemaker is also an active private investor in new technology-based ventures and serves on the Board of Directors for several of these, including Strategic Radar, Inc. For further details, see www.paulschoemaker.com.
Executive Chairman
Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Ph.D., is Executive Chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc., a consulting and training company he founded in 1990. Schoemaker served as the company's CEO for 16 years, leading it into strategic planning, executive development and multi-media software. He is an internationally renowned thought leader in strategy and decision making who has given many seminars to executives in Europe, America and the Far East. He has appeared on radio and television, and shared stage billings with President Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, Rudolph Giuliani, Jack Welch and other public leaders. He lectured frequently in executive programs at Berkeley, Cedep at Insead, Cornell University, Univ. of Chicago and still does so at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During 1982-1984, Dr. Schoemaker took an extended full-time sabbatical with the strategy group of Royal Dutch/Shell in London, where he helped pioneer scenario planning. He has since helped over a hundred organizations around the world in both the private and public sectors.
Schoemaker further serves as the Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also teaches strategy and decision-making as a part-time professor. For over twelve years, he was a professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Cedep at Insead (France). He started his studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in physics in 1972. Later, he received an M.B.A. in Finance, an M.A. in Management and a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences, all three degrees from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Board Member of the Decision Education Foundation (www.decisioneducation.org).
Schoemaker's main research interests are in the areas of organizational strategy, decision theory, managerial decision-making, emerging technologies and innovation. He has written over 100 academic and applied papers, which have appeared in journals ranging from the Harvard Business Review and the Journal of Mathematical Psychology to Management Science and the Journal of Economic Literature. His first book Experiments on Decisions Under Risk (Kluwer Nijhoff Publishing, 1980) received a two-page author profile in Fortune Magazine. With J. Edward Russo he wrote the best-selling book Decision Traps (Simon & Schuster, 1990), which discusses various biases in decision making (as profiled in Newsweek). With Kleindorfer and Kunreuther, Schoemaker wrote an acclaimed graduate-level text titled Decision Sciences: An Integrative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1993). With George Day, he edited the book Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies (Wiley, 2000). Other works included a managerial book on scenario planning titled Profiting from Uncertainty (Free Press, 2002), and with J. Edward Russo he published Winning Decisions (Doubleday, 2002.) In May 2006, Drs. Schoemaker and Day published Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company (Harvard Business School Press).
Schoemaker's publications received several awards (including the prestigious Best Paper Prize of the Strategic Management Journal in 2000), have been reprinted frequently, and are published in over 10 foreign languages. He has been published multiple times in the Harvard Business Review and his 1995 article Scenario Planning is the second most reprinted publication in the 41 year history of the Sloan Management Review. He ranks among the top 1% most frequently cited academic researchers in the fields of business and economics worldwide (www.ISIHighlyCited.com). Dr. Schoemaker is also an active private investor in new technology-based ventures and serves on the Board of Directors for several of these, including Strategic Radar, Inc. For further details, see www.paulschoemaker.com.