Paul Tiffany: Profile

Paul Tiffany is a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses in competitive strategy, business and public policy, international management, and business and economic history. In the past Dr. Tiffany served as a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; at the University of Pennsylvania; at INSEAD (the leading graduate school of business in France); and is currently a Visiting Professor at SASIN (the leading graduate school of business in Thailand); CEIBS (the leading business school in China, located in Shanghai); IOMBA at University of Geneva; and AVT Business School in Copenhagen. He earned his undergraduate degree from Loyola University, an M.B.A. from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley.

Prior to entering academia, Paul Tiffany worked as a consultant with several national management consulting firms, as an assistant to the president of a large national financial services firm, and as an organizational analyst for a large public services agency. In addition to his academic work, he provides multi-specialty consulting and management training and development services to firms throughout the world. Recent clients have included Cisco Systems, Morgan Stanley, US Steel, Johnson & Johnson, Banc of America Securities, Microsoft, Western Pennsylvania Alleghany Health System, MinSheng Bank (China), Clorox, Statoil (Norway), Genentech, Deutsche Post World Net (Germany), Statoil (Norway), Siam Cement (Thailand), AXA (France), Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino, Kimberly-Clarke, and Commerce Bank (Philadelphia). He has served as a keynote speaker to conferences and programs throughout the world, including the European Facilities Management Association Conference (EU), the Investment Management Certified Analyst Association’s annual meeting (US); the Innobiz Innovation Conference (Korea), the Securities Traders Association (USA); the Irish Management Association (Ireland); and the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) Thailand, among many others.

Professor Tiffany’s The Decline of American Steel was published by Oxford University Press in 1988, and published in a Japanese edition in 1989. His book Business Plans for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons), co-authored with Steven Peterson, was published in August 1997; it was a world-wide top-five finalist in the annual Booz Allen/Financial Times "Best Business Book of the Year" award for 1998. The book went through fifteen printings in ten languages, prior to the release of a 2nd Edition in 2005. Dr. Tiffany has commented extensively on television, radio, and in the popular press on topics related to business firms and the global economy, in media in both the USA and around the world.

Professor Tiffany is the recipient of awards for both his research and teaching, including the Anvil Award in 1985 (presented annually to the outstanding professor in The Wharton School’s graduate program), the Lindback Award as the outstanding professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and the Cheit Award as the outstanding professor in the Haas Executive MBA program at the University of California, Berkeley in both 2003 and 2004.

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