St. Davids Man Named Dean of Villanova's School of Business

St. Davids resident Patrick G. Maggitti, PhD, has been appointed The Helen and William O'Toole Dean of the Villanova University School of Business.

As Dean of Villanova University’s School of Business (VSB), Maggitti will serve as chief administrator of the school, which has approximately 2,500 students (undergraduate and graduate), 128 faculty, 50 staff members and an alumni body of nearly 30,000.

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He will oversee an annual budget of more than $25 million and lead VSB’s long-term strategic and academic planning, curricular initiatives, faculty research support, student services, fundraising, external relations and alumni services. 

Maggitti currently serves as the Carmen and Sharon Danella Director of the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE Center) at VSB, as well as Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship.

Maggitti has authored numerous publications for top management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy and the Journal of Management Studies. In 2011, he received the Villanova University “Outstanding Teaching Award” for faculty with fewer than seven years of service and, in 2004, was the recipient of the “Allen J. Krowe Award for Excellence in Teaching” from the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His research interests focus on dynamic processes, including strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, decision-making, search behavior, and market and non-market based competition.

Prior to academia, Maggitti spent nearly 15 years in the steel and mining industries, where he founded two successful companies and held a variety of roles, including chief executive officer, director of national sales and board member. He has also consulted with a variety of international organizations on numerous facets of strategy and entrepreneurial thinking.

Maggitti is the Radnor Township Board of Commissioners’ appointee on the Board of Trustees.

Maggitti received his PhD in strategic management from the University of Maryland, College Park; an MBA with high honors from the Johns Hopkins University; and a BS in chemistry from Saint Joseph’s University.