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Yellow Springs, Ohio–Antioch University McGregor announced Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld – editor of the new, annotated edition of Douglas McGregor’s 1960 management classic, The Human Side of Enterprise (McGraw-Hill, 2006) – will be the keynote speaker at its annual commencement ceremony. Antioch University McGregor’s commencement will be Sunday, June, 25 from 2 – 4 p.m. in the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Center for the Performing Arts. Doors to the auditorium will open for guests at 1:15 p.m.

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is a Senior Research Scientist in MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Executive Director of MIT’s Engineering Systems Learning Center. He is also co-chair of the Negotiations in the Workplace Project, which is part of the Program on Negotiations at the Harvard Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from MIT and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

“Douglas McGregor’s work helps define the heart of our institution….I often explain the meaning of ‘McGregor’ in our name, and it makes me proud to see how many people still revere his teachings, over a half century later,” Dr. Barbara Gellman-Danley, president, Antioch University McGregor from the Introduction of The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition.

Heralded as one of the most important pieces of management literature ever written, The Human Side of Enterprise continues to receive the highest accolades nearly half a century after its initial publication. Influencing such major management gurus as Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, McGregor’s revolutionary theories have been widely taught in business schools, industrial relations schools, psychology departments and professional development seminars for over four decades.

Antioch University McGregor is named after Douglas McGregor who served as president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. 

Antioch University McGregor contributes to the betterment of the individual and the community by fostering academic excellence and providing socially responsive, flexible and innovative education programs for adult learners. McGregor features a wide array of bachelor’s degree completion programs, master’s programs in conflict resolution, management and education and also individualized liberal and professional studies programs.