Mike Hennelly, Ph.D.

My forty-four year career has consisted of more than two decades of military service as well as work in the corporate world and academe. I was just recently named an associate professor at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame and I have taught strategic leadership to Notre Dame executive MBA students. From 2007 until I retired in 2014, I was a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During that time, I taught strategy, management, ethics and leadership to more than six hundred cadets. An overview of my career follows: Military experience: - Led U.S. Army soldiers deployed to NATO - Qualified as an Army Ranger and certified as an Army strategist - Gave weekly strategy briefings to four-star generals for two years - Retired after twenty-one years of active duty as a lieutenant-colonel Corporate experience: - Worked for six years at the headquarters of largest company in the world (responsible for all logistics programs for the Sam’s Club division of Walmart). Academic experience: - Taught strategic management courses to MBA students at the University of Arkansas and the University of Tulsa. - Taught several different management courses at West Point (including strategic management) for seven years. - Gave presentations on strategic leadership to MBA students from Peking University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (both in the U.S. and China). - Guest speaker at a leadership conference at Yale University. I received my undergraduate degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, my master’s degree from the University of Chicago and my doctorate in strategic management from the University of Arkansas. After my retirement from West Point, I primarily give seminars and consult on strategy and leadership to executives of some of the world’s largest companies.

Walton College Instructor