1. What is your title, and what does that entail?
Borgatti, Gatton Endowed Chair of Management and University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics, has reached 100,000 citations on Google Scholar. The milestone places him among a small group of scholars whose work has become foundational well beyond their home disciplines.
1. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Houston, TX
1. Tell us about where you grew up and how you found your way to UK and Gatton College.I was born in Louisville but grew up in Owensboro. My father's job had the family transfer to Alabama where I attended high school. Like all true Kentuckians, I started planning my way home the moment we got to Alabama. Upon graduating high school UK was the only school choice for me.
1. Where did your grow up and what is your major? I was born and raised just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a small town called Phoenixville. I am entering my junior year at the University of Kentucky, where I am pursuing a dual degree in Marketing and Integrated Strategic Communication, with a minor in International Business.
Wally Ferrier – from Gatton Undergrad to Gatton Department Chair (and everything in between)For Wally Ferrier, strategy isn't just discipline, it's a way of thinking. Whether he's leading the Department of Management at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics, mentoring doctoral students or challenging MBA candidates to think more critically about competition, Ferrier believes the best leaders are those who never stop learning.That philosophy has shaped a career spanning more than three decades at Gatton.
