Steve Freeman

MS, Systems Science, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business PhD, Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management

Steve is a scholar, educator, entrepreneur and organizational advisor with expertise in applied research survey methods and in crisis preparedness, resiliency and opportunity development.

Steve has worked on consulting projects with Russell Ackoff at the University of Pennsylvania and at Interact Consulting, and with Peter Senge at the MIT Organizational Learning Center. Since 1993, Steve has been a principal at Applied Research, a consultancy that focuses on applying the world’s knowledge to organizational challenges. Applying tools of knowledge acquisition and by searching through multiple sources and databases he discovers fresh solutions which enable clients to build capabilities for themselves.

Steve has held academic appointments as professor at INCAE Business School, and as visiting professor at the Universidad de San Andreas and at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Since 2002, he has been faculty/researcher/scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Organizational Dynamics program.

His research is broad and includes Innovation, Resiliency, Employee Ownership, for which he was awarded the Louis O. Kelso Fellowship for the study of broader ownership of capital, and Election Integrity. The latter resulted in the book, Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count (New York:Seven Stories Press 2006), for which he received a Project Censored award for most important research of 2006. He has received awards for the Best Teaching Case, Best Practice Paper, and Best Overall Paper from the Academy of Management.

His applied scholarship has appeared in major newspapers, magazines and journals throughout the Americas. He has been asked to provide expert testimony before the United States Congress and invited to lecture or speak at scores of universities, organizations, and academic conferences. Two of his papers are among the most downloaded in the history of the University of Pennsylvania Scholarly Commons Digital Library.