Steve Kerr
Steve Kerr is the author of Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up?, a senior advisor at Goldman Sachs and the executive director of Jack Welch Management Institute. From 2001-2006, Steve was a managing director at Goldman, and was the firm's chief learning officer. Steve came to Goldman Sachs from General Electric, where for seven years he was vice president of corporate leadership development, including responsibility for GE’s renowned leadership center at Crotonville.. He was previously on the business school faculties of The Ohio State University, the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California, where he was dean of the faculty and director of the Ph.D. program. Dr. Kerr is a former president of the Academy of Management, the world's largest association of academicians in management. His writings on leadership and "on the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B" are among the most cited and reprinted in the management sciences. He has authored or coauthored six books, including The Boundaryless Organization and, most recently, Reward Systems (Harvard Business Press, 2009). Steve is a member of the board of directors of Harvard Business Publishing, The Motley Fool, and the Miami Children's Hospital Foundation, and is on the advisory board of the Wharton School/U.of Pennsylvania GSE's program in learning leadership.
