Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University - 1991 (Human Resources)
M.B.A., UCLA - 1981 (Management)
A.B., Sarah Lawrence College - 1975 (Philosophy)
Areas of Expertise:
Human resource management, fiduciary issues in management, Pension and Employee Retirement Income Security Act issues, university governance and president pay practices, corporate governance and business ethics.
Books and Publications
Mitchell Langbert and Marc Fox. "The Compensation of Private College and University Presidents." Accepted for Publication, Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education. Spring 2014. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
"Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind and the Historicity of Mass Murder." Frontpagemag, April 12. http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/12/corey-robins-reactionary-mind-and-the-historicity-of-mass-murder/. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012
"The Tenure of Private College and University Presidents." Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education. 8:1. See http://jwpress.com/JAAHE/Issues/JAAHE-Fall-2012-.pdf#page=9. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Review of The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms. Eds. Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding and Frederick M. Hess. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 24.1/2. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2012
"The Social Media Staffing Revolution: How Accounting Firms Are Leading and Engaging People." AICPA Career Insider, Oct. 20. http://www.cpa2biz.com/Content/media/PRODUCER_CONTENT/Newsletters/Articles_2011/Career/StaffRevolution.jsp. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
"Through a Refractive Lens: On the Career Success of Evening MBA Students." International Journal of Business and Social Science 2:7: 217-234. Available at: http://www.ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol._2_No._7;_Special_Issue_April_2011/24.pdf. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Toward the Virtue-Based Business School." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 23.1/2: 97-116. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Managing Psychopathic Employees." Cornell HR Review. At
http://cornellhrreview.org/2010/06/16/managing-psychopathic-employees/ (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
Langbert, Mitchell and Robin Vaccai Yess. "Pondering the Imponderable: Salaries of Ulster County's Town Supervisors" op ed. Times Herald Record Oct. 4. Available at www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091004/OPINION/910040305. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009
Review of Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents, by Brian C. Anderson. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXI.1: 181-83. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009
Langbert, Mitchell, Mike Stanchina and Donald Grunewald. "Howard Roark and the Ghost of Admiral Rickover." Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal 15.2, May. Teaching Case. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Will Taxing Colleges Save Them?" Frontpagemag July 27. www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C36D653C-804B-4E35-96A0-501F3DC84FC9. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
"Gotham's Colleges" op ed. New York Sun Dec. 6: 6. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"How Universities Pay Their Presidents." Academic Questions 19:2, Spring. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
"Misplaced Trustee: Fiduciary Duty and Irrationality at Enron." Yale Economic Review. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"Paris on the Hudson" op ed. New York Sun Nov. 28. www.surfdisguise.com/0/1/2/nysun/3/article/23606. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
"The Master's Degree in Human Resource Management: Midwife to a New Profession?" Academy of Management Learning and Education 4.4: 434-50. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
de Russy, C. and M. Langbert. "Selective Evaluation" op ed. New York Sun June 24-26. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
de Russy, C. and M. Langbert. "The Corrosion of Ethics in Higher Education." Inside Higher Education July 5. www.insidehighereducation.com/views/2005/07/05/derussy. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
de Russy, C. and M. Langbert. Strategic Planning for Trustees. Booklet published by the Institute for Effective Governance. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
Review of Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study, by Thomas Sowell. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 17: 213-14. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
The Charles G. Koch Foundation provided a grant that funded my work on a report completed in summer 2012 entitled "The Evolving Evaluation of Journal Proposals and a Proposal to Advance a Management Paradigm: A Report to the Charles G. Koch Foundation." (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Research Activities
Referee/Editorial Board: Journal of Management History: Two papers.Case Research Journal: Two papers. Spring 2013. 2013
(Blind) referee/reviewer/editorial board, Journal of Business Ethics (one article),
Journal of Management History (one article) and Case Research Journal (two articles). 2012
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Invited conference participant, "Liberty and the Art of Teaching." Institute for Humane Studies. Towson College. June 28-30, 2013. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Invited Participant, American Council of Trustees and Alumni. Symposium on Academic Freedom: "Free to Teach, Free to Learn," Union League Club, April 24, 2013. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2013
Langbert, M. and Fox, M. "The Compensation of Private College and University Presidents. Winner, Best Paper Award. International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education, May 21-24, Nashville, Tennessee.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Applying the Lessons of Markets to Management" colloquium participant. Liberty Fund/Charles G. Koch Foundation. Arlington, Va., March 22-24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"The Tenure of Private College and University Presidents." International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education. Nashville, Tenn., May 23-26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Langbert, M. and M. Fox. "The Compensation of Private University Presidents" poster. Labor and Employee Relations Association Conference (Allied Social Sciences Association). Denver, Jan. 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Toward a Virtue-based Business Education." Symposium: The Idea of a University From John Henry Newman to the Multiversity and Beyond. Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 5-8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"ERISA Litigation and the DOL's New 401(k) Rules." Audio conference sponsored by the CPA Training Center, Feb. 6. See www.cpatrainingcenter.com/showWCDetails.asp?TCID=1002613. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
Pedagogical Achievements
Established two new courses, Government and Business and Labor Relations, that were approved by the faculty senate. The work was funded through a grant from the Apgar Foundation. funded through CUNY's new free institutions program. 2012
Community Activities
A 30-minute radio interview of me aired as a public affairs program on Hudson Valley Focus, which runs on nine Clear Channel affiliates in upstate New York: WRNQ, WBPM, WKIP, WGHQ, WPKF, WRWD, WLEG, WBWZ and WRWC. The interview concerned UN Agenda 21 and environmental extremism. Aug. 20. 2011
Member, Ulster County and the Town of Olive Republican committees. 2009-2011. 2010
Provided a pro bono training seminar, Captains' Leadership Effectiveness Training Program, for newly promoted New York Police Department captains, April 15. 2010
Provided a pro bono training seminar on team building for senior executives of the New York Police Department (captains, inspectors and above), April 26. 2009
Covered in "Anti-Obama Bloggers Say They Were Silenced." New York Sun August 5. www.nysun.com/national/anti-obama-bloggers-say-they-were-silenced/83179/. 2008
Provided a pro bono training seminar on negotiation for senior executives of the New York Police Department (captains, inspectors and above), April 3. 2008
Conducted a workshop on a pro bono basis for executives (captains, inspectors and assistant commissioners) of the New York Police Department concerning conflict and negotiation management. 2007
Faculty adviser, Brooklyn College Intercollegiate Studies Institute chapter. 2006
Faculty adviser, Brooklyn College Students in Free Enterprise team. 2006
Other Professional Activities
Attended a market-based management seminar at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. Wichita, Kan., July 19-21. 2011
Member, editorial board, Case Research Journal. Reviewed two cases. 2011
Monthly column on human resource management for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Career Insider newsletter (circulation: 110,000+). Approximately 30 columns between March 2009 and November 2011. 2011
"Keep Psychopaths Out of Your Accounting Firm" column reprinted in Accounting Fraud and Cover Ups, by Martha Maeda. Originally published in AICPA Career Insider May 2009. 2010
Member, editorial board, Case Research Journal. Reviewed two cases. In addition, refereed two articles for Journal of Management History. 2010
Member, editorial board, Case Research Journal. Reviewed three cases. In addition, refereed an article for Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2009
Editorial board member, Case Research Journal. Refereed two case studies. 2008
Quoted on workplace napping in an American Public Media segment by Jaime Bedrin that has been carried at several NPR affiliates. See http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/18/nap_culture. 2008
