EDUCATION
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PMD Harvard Business School
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Leadership Development and Executive Education
- High Technology Enterprises
- Management
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professor Modesto A. Maidique is the Alvah H. Chapman, Jr., Eminent Scholar Chair in Leadership and Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). He is also the Executive Director of the FIU Center for Leadership. In addition to his ongoing research on executive leadership, Dr. Maidique brings his expertise to the classroom, teaching graduate students in FIU’s MBA programs. He is the program director for the Leading Decisions Executive Leadership Development Program offered through the Center and which is based on the Behavioral Model of Leadership developed by Dr. Maidique.
In June 2009, Dr. Maidique was named President Emeritus of Florida International University by its Board of Trustees in recognition of his leadership, dedication, and transformational accomplishments during his 23 year tenure as University President. From 1986 to 2009, Dr. Maidique served as president of FIU and led its transformation from a comprehensive university to a major research university classified in the highest ranking awarded by the Carnegie Foundation. Under Dr. Maidique’s leadership, FIU has tripled in physical size, grown to nearly 40,000 students, and now ranks among the 20 largest universities in the United States, with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and a Division I-A football team. During his tenure, FIU established accredited Colleges of Law, Engineering, Architecture and Public Health; and most recently, Dr. Maidique spearheaded the historic opening of the new FIU College of Medicine, one of only three U.S. medical schools established in the last 25 years.
Dr. Maidique has held academic appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and Stanford Universities. Published extensively in leading academic journals, Dr. Maidique is also contributing author to ten books. His co-authored textbook, Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, is widely used at colleges and universities. He is co-author of “The Art of High Technology Management,” one of the best-selling articles published by the Sloan Management Review, and of Energy Future, a New York Times bestseller on energy policy.
A co-founded Analog Devices Inc., Semiconductor Division, Dr. Maidique also served as CEO of Collaborative Research, now Genome Therapeutics, and as senior partner in Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners, at the time the world’s largest venture capital firm. He holds several patents for semiconductor devices. A past chairman of the Beacon Council, Miami’s economic development authority, Dr. Maidique currently serves on the boards of National Semiconductor and the Carnival Corporation.
Dr. Maidique has testified before Congress on the issues of energy conservation and energy financing and has served on the Educational Policy Advisory Committee for two United States Presidents. He has also served on the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board and is a member of the Commission on Presidential Scholars.
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