PETER REA
Dr. Rea is the Burton D. Morgan Chair for Entrepreneurial Studies at Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. He provided the leadership to create, launch and operate the College’s Center for Innovation and Growth Center. The Center is built on corporate partnerships that promote economic development and provide B-W students with practical experience in creating economic value driven by innovation and guided by integrity.
Dr. Rea has provided leadership in creating corporate partnership programs to further strengthen the relationship between B-W and the corporate community, involving for-profit and non-profit organizations such as The Cleveland Clinic, Dix and Eaton, Ernest and Young, Glengary LLC, IdeaStream, MTD, National City Bank, Parker Hannifin, The President’s Council, and Westfield Group. He has provided leadership to establish international partnerships with corporations/universities in countries such as Brazil, England, Germany, Japan and China. Such partnerships have resulted in exchanges as B-W offering its MBA program in Brazil.
From 1994 until 2006, he was chairman of the Business Administration Division at B-W. He was responsible for providing leadership for undergraduate programs serving 1300 students, seven MBA programs serving 400 students and executive education serving 1600 leaders annually. From 1989 to 1994, he was Associate Academic Dean at B-W. He assisted with college-wide strategy and policy for 27 academic and ten administrative departments.
His primary teaching and consulting areas include strategic planning, marketing strategy and business ethics. He has provided consultation to organizations such as Bucknell University, Cleveland Indians, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Eaton Corporation, EdgeHill College (Ormskirk England), Nationwide Insurance, Oberlin College, Rainbow Babies’ and Children’s Hospital, United Way, Westfield Group and numerous small businesses and professional organizations.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Akron, a Masters of Arts from Bowling Green State University and a Bachelor of Science from Ohio University where he graduated summa cum laude. He has completed postdoctoral studies in international marketing and business, and marketing strategy at Memphis University, Carnegie Mellon University and Duke University.
He co-authored a book with Dr. Harold Kerzner entitled Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide, as well as Integrity is a Growth Market and Leading with Integrity with Alan Kolp.
