Dr. Art Markman Selected as Director of Research at IC² Institute

AUSTIN, Texas - March 26, 2013 - PRLog -- The Human Dimensions of Organizations (HDO) announced today that Art Markman, Ph.D., has been named Director of Research at the IC² Institute. The Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at The University of Texas at Austin is also the Founding Director of the Human Dimensions of Organizations, an executive Master of Arts degree program at the institution.

In his new position, Dr. Markman oversees the research projects that will be funded by IC², an interdisciplinary research unit of The University of Texas at Austin founded in 1977 by Dr. George Kozmetsky.

IC² Institute has advanced the Theory and Practice of Entrepreneurial Wealth Creation which offers hypotheses that are tested in life-scale through several world-recognized programs, including the Austin Technology Incubator (http://ati.utexas.edu/), one of the world's most prominent business incubators; the Bureau of Business Research (http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/bbr/), a resource providing Texas leaders with research data to strengthen the state’s economy; and the Global Commercialization Group (http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/global/), a catalyst for emerging knowledge-based economies throughout the world.  

Dr. Markman's role as Research Director allows him to support the most recent and significant research in entrepreneurship, business growth solutions, innovation and global commercialization. The research and knowledge gained in these areas will directly benefit the students in the HDO program. The information can support and direct the work done on students’ capstone projects, which represent the culmination of their degree.

“The HDO program is committed to bringing multidisciplinary insights to its students,” comments Markman. “By supporting new research, we have the opportunity to push the boundaries of knowledge and to allow that to have an immediate impact on the curriculum of the program. It also allows faculty from across the university including those affiliated with the HDO program to advance their research goals.”

The Human Dimensions of Organizations' mission is to transform business through a better understanding of people as individuals, organizations, and cultures.  HDO’s executive degree program will develop leaders who can maximize the human potential within organizations to address the challenges of the global marketplace.

"Our courses," continues Markman, "focus on the fundamental principles and skills needed to conceptualize and implement organizational change, making students more valuable within their organizations today and more successful in their careers over the long term."

The Master of Arts degree program launching in Fall of 2013 is currently accepting applications. Applicants can review program details at: http://hdo.utexas.edu/.

About Dr. Markman

Dr. Art Markman is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas. He has written over 150 scholarly works on topics including decision making, reasoning, and motivation. He is also executive editor of the journal Cognitive Science.

Dr. Markman is author of Smart Thinking and Habits of Leadership. He is nationally recognized for his knowledge of the creative thinking process. As a cognitive scientist, his own research is deeply multidisciplinary. He has long brought insights from his field to a broader audience both through his consulting with companies such as Procter & Gamble as well as his service on the advisory boards of the Dr. Phil Show and the Dr. Oz Show. At The University of Texas at Austin, he serves as the Founding Director of the HDO executive Master of Arts program and as the Director of Research at the IC² Institute. He is a regular blogger for Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, and the Huffington Post.

More information available at: http://www.smartthinkingbook.com/p/about-art.html

About HDO

The HDO Master of Arts program includes three semesters of coursework over 12 months, followed by a semester-long capstone project in which students apply what they have learned to their own organizations. The program schedule allows students to balance work and education. It is designed for established professionals with at least three years of executive or managerial experience.

The HDO program instills multidisciplinary thinking and synthesizes knowledge gained from across the liberal arts and social sciences to transform organizations for the global marketplace. Organizations that support HDO master’s students are those that recognize the importance of the human factor, value innovation, and desire to develop outstanding leaders from within.

More information available at: http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hdo/

About IC²

The IC² Institute is a globally recognized “think and do” component of The University of Texas at Austin whose mission is to engage in cutting-edge research to enhance the solving of unstructured problems related to market economies, wealth creation, growth, and prosperity through entrepreneurial activity and the commercialization of technological innovation. The Institute carries out this mission through its primary applied research laboratory at the Austin Technology Incubator as well as through the Bureau of Business Research, the Global Commercialization Group, the Digital Media Collaboratory, and the IC² Fellows Network and Visiting Scholars Program.

Supporting these programs is a proactive staff, an award-winning faculty, the alumni of ATI, as well as a network of about 240 Global Fellows   (http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/fellows-scholars.html) who extend the talent reach of the institute at home and abroad. Eighteen of these are Endowed Fellows (http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/fellows-amp-scholars/endowed-fellows.html): professors at The University of Texas at Austin whose research is supplemented by the IC² Institute in order to directly support the creation of new knowledge.

More information is available at: http://www.ic2.utexas.edu/