Kim S. Cameron

Kim Sterling Cameron (born 1946) is the William Russel Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and previously has served on the faculty of multiple other institutions.

Biography

Cameron is a Latter-day Saint. He attended Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah from which he graduated in 1964. He then received a bachelors from Brigham Young University in 1970. At BYU Cameron dated Ann Davies. [ [http://deseretnews.com/cgi-bin/cqcgi_plus/@plus.env?CQ_SESSION_KEY=SLIWCHRCSBXH&CQ_CUR_DOCUMENT=16&CQ_TEXT_MAIN=YES "Deseret News", July 4th, 2007] ] Latter he met Melinda Cummings who was the daughter of Hollywood actor Robert Cummings. Melinda's coming to BYU was the result of an invitation to visit the campus from M. Russell Ballard who was on the board of directors of a theatre her father was performing at. They were both involved in BYU stage productions, and also had roles in the film "Pioneers in Petticoats". Melinda's joining the church was partly the result of her being in this film.

Cameron also served as student body vice president and was a basketball player at BYU.

Kim Cameron and Melinda Cummings were married. After earning a masters at BYU he became a faculty member at Ricks College. He then went on to earn a Ph.D. in administrative sciences from Yale University.

The Camerons are the parents of seven children.

For a time Cameron served as president of the Ann Arbor Michigan Stake. ["LDS Church News", June 17th, 1995]

Cameron has served as associate dean of the Marriott School of Management at BYU and as dean of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He also served for a time as a member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written at least seven books. Much of his writing has been in cooperation with Robert E. Quinn.

Among other ideas, Cameron advances the notion that downsizing is not an effective business strategy. [ [http://deseretnews.com/cgi-bin/cqcgi_plus/@plus.env?CQ_SESSION_KEY=SLIWCHRCSBXH&CQ_CUR_DOCUMENT=1&CQ_TEXT_MAIN=YES "Deseret News", August 15th, 1996] ]

Cameron has even written articles that examine management textbooks such as "Management Textbooks as Propaganda". [http://jme.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/6/711?ck=nck]

As of 2008 Cameron was a member of the high council of the Ann Arbor Michigan Stake. [http://blessingsofabraham.blogspot.com/]

Cameron wrote several articles for the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

Sources

* [http://www.byhigh.org/Alumni_A_to_E/Cameron/Kim.html article on Kim S. Cameron]
* [http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000120055 University of Michigan faculty bio]
* [http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000120055 University of Michigan longer bio]