Columbia Business School
Teaching and research interestRevised Columbia Business School Bio – Updated February 4, 2013Professor Michael Preston has over 40 years experience working closely with and advising corporate executives of middle market companies including family-owned businesses and non-profit organizations. His areas of expertise include leadership, management, strategic planning, organizational structure, and change management. For the past 14 years, Professor Preston has been teaching and consulting with growing companies including family businesses.He teaches three popular courses at Columbia Business School: Managing the Growing Company, which focuses on the transitional issues a growing midsize company faces moving from an entrepreneurial venture to a professionally managed business; his complementary course, Family Business Management, addresses the many unique issues and challenges facing family businesses today and has led Global Immersion courses to Europe and South America. He is the Director of the Family Business Management Program and works closely with the school’s Family Business Club on events and special programs. Preston is also an active member of the School's Entrepreneurship Program serving as a mentor and Sounding Board practitioner to Columbia student entrepreneurs. He has taught a seminar on growth management as part of a joint Columbia/USIU program in Nairobi, Kenya and seminars on family business to visiting USIU Kenya, GEMBA students in New York.During his 28 years at Grant Thornton LLP, he assisted businesses as a management consultant, regional director, partner, and consulting department head of the firm's largest practice. Some of his major clients include IBM, Lloyds of London, Citigroup, Motorola, AT&T, and GTE/Sylvania.He co-authored The Road to Success: How to Manage Growth (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) and speaks to various audiences on topics related to management, organizational growth and family business. Preston is on the board of FEGS Health and Human Services System and is a member of the Family Firm Institute [FFI]. He holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern Graduate School of Business at NYU and a BA from Ithaca College.OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES 2008-2011Non-profit Volunteer ServiceBoard Member, FEGS Health and Human Services SystemMember, Executive CommitteeChairman, Executive Compensation CommitteeMember, Audit CommitteeChairman, Corporate Compliance CommitteeCo-founder of the Cherkin Preston Foundation which supports education for children in Kenya (see ). TeachingHEC Paris, MBA ProgramVisiting Professor, Growth Management: 2008. 2009, 2010Visiting Professor, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Program, Joint HEC Paris/Tsinghua University Beijing, Growth Management: 2009, 2010, 2011Salzburg Management Business School, Salzburg AustriaLecture on Family Business Management, 2010Courses tauFall 2011Family Business Management (MBA)Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Spring 2011Family Business Management (MBA)Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Summer 2011Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Fall 2010Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Spring 2010Family Business Management (MBA)Fall 2009Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Spring 2009Family Business Management (MBA)Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Fall 2008Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Spring 2008Family Business Management (MBA)Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Fall 2007Managing the Growing Company (MBA)Spring 2007Managing the Growing Company (MBA) ................
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