Biography 2019

Peter Lorenzi

Sellinger School of Business and Management

Loyola University Maryland

Peter Lorenzi is professor of management at Loyola University Maryland. Lorenzi earned his B.S. in Administrative Science (1973) and his M.B.A. (1975) from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. in 1978 from the Pennsylvania State University. He started business study abroad programs at the University of Kansas and Marquette and earned teaching honors at Kansas, Marquette, and the University of Wyoming for innovative teaching, classroom effectiveness and student learning. He co-authored Management: Quality and Competitiveness (McGraw-Hill, 1994, 1997) and The New Leadership Paradigm (Sage, 1992), authored a guide for business undergraduates and edited Experiential Organizational Behavior (Macmillan, 1981).

At Loyola since 1995, he teaches courses in management, social entrepreneurship, sustainable development and leadership. His research focuses on public policy, values, and social impact and innovation. A proponent of microfinance as an anti-poverty tool, he has funded more than 610 Kiva loans. He has authored and presented more than one hundred conference papers, journal articles, columns and academic presentations. As a Fulbright specialist, he assisted in the development of a new business school in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine. In 2015, he was recommended for a chair in social entrepreneurship at the University of Vienna. Lorenzi is a reviewer for faculty Fulbright awards.

Lorenzi has taught in management development programs and lectured on leadership, management, and global competitiveness across the United States and in Europe, South America and Asia, including Jonkoping, Goa, Krasnayorsk, Newcastle, Moscow, Santiago, Beijing and Kuala Lumpur. Clients have included Rockwell International, AEGON, General Motors PEL, Coca-Cola, the USAID and Malaysia's Sunwei Group. He has been interviewed in the local public media, including Maryland Public Television, including the Baltimore Business Journal, Baltimore Style, and the Baltimore Sun.

From 1995 to 2001, Lorenzi served as dean of Loyola's Sellinger School of Business and Management. The Sellinger School enrolled about 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students each year, with full-time, residential undergraduate programs and extensive evening and executive graduate business programs. From 1996 to 2001, he managed the Loyola MBA program in Santiago, Chile that evolved to the MBA program of the new Jesuit university, Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Under his leadership, US News & World Report for the first time ranked the Sellinger PMBA program among the nation's top twenty-five part-time programs and he raised more than two thirds of the business school’s endowment.

In 1998, Loyola opened a graduate and executive campus in Timonium. In 2000, Sellinger faculty and undergraduates moved into the first dedicated business school building on the Evergreen campus. A third Sellinger graduate facility opened in Columbia (Maryland) in 2001. Lorenzi served as dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Arkansas from 1992 to 1995, where he also developed and led a USAID program in Moscow. He led a successful reaffirmation of accreditation effort, increased enrollments, expanded global programs and the number of foreign students, and championed information technology. From 1987 to 1990, he was associate dean and associate professor of management at Marquette University, when the business school had consecutive record freshmen business enrollments. He established the business honors program and initiated business study abroad and a community service learning programs. From 1978 to 1986, Lorenzi was a University of Kansas business professor where he also directed the undergraduate business program. He had visiting appointments at the universities of Wyoming (1982-83) and North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986).

Lorenzi and his wife, Dena, live in Maryland. Dena is an adjunct professor in the Communications department. Daughter Jane, a 2018 honors graduate of Marquette University, is the Intake Coordinator for the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project in Tacoma, Washington. Daughter Gaby is a second-year applied mathematics student at UCLA.