For immediate use Sept. 17, 2001 -- No. 439
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Experts can discuss Pearl Harbor parallels, crisis leadership traits
Dr. Eric Muller, (919) 962-7067 (w), or [email protected]; professor in the UNC School of Law, is an expert on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He can talk about the comparisons being made between last week's terrorist attacks and the attack on Pearl Harbor. He can speak about the civil rights of Arab and Muslim Americans and has just written a book, "Free To Die For Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II." The book, being published next month, tells the story of several hundred Japanese American internees who were drafted out of the wartime internment camps into the US Army, but refused to serve because their civil rights had been violated. Dr. Muller teaches constitutional law, criminal law and criminal procedure in the UNC School of Law.
Dr. James W. "Jim" Dean Jr., (919) 962-0798 or [email protected], management professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School and associate dean of the MBA Program, can speak to examining the key elements of leadership in times of crisis, be it leading a company, a division or a small group of people. What is called for in crisis that is different from leading in regular times? Dean has been a senior examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. His research interests include organizational change, leadership, performance improvement and strategic decision-making.
He is the former director for the National Science Foundation's Transformations to Quality Organizations program. This program of research on performance improvement was jointly supported by several Fortune 500 corporations and the federal government. For more about Dean's expertise,
click to http://www.mbascorecard.unc.edu/bio_dean.html.
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