Dr. Clifford Buttram, Jr.

Bio

My interest and research explore current and future business management, leadership, and strategic practices with a focus on the impact of professional development programs and opportunities for Undergraduate and Graduate business students. A key personal and professional objective is to instill and ensure the preparation of professionally developed future leaders. My current projects include building partnerships with local and regional businesses, the maintenance and continued improvement of rigorous academic standards and practices, and the development of impact of international business within business school curricula.

Areas of Interest

• Business Strategy
• International Business
• Design and Systems Thinking

Selected publications

• The African Union: An Organizational Leadership and Management Phenomenological Study (Dissertation)
• The Granting of a King: The Indispensable Generals in America’s Two Civil Wars (first of three in a series)
• America’s Visibly Invisible Civil War: The Battle Between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois (second of three in a series)
• The African American South: Back to our Future (three of three in a series)

Selected Presentations

• Allen County Public Library Lecture Series
  • October 2020-The Future of the Global Economy
  • October 2021-Moon, Inc: The Artemis Moon Project
  • November 2022-The Pentagon: A Most Consequential Fortune 500 Company
• Selected as a paper presenter and Session Chair at the November 2022 International Studies Association (ISA) Midwest Regional meeting in St. Louis, MO: Topic: The Pentagon: A Most Influential Fortune 500 company.
• Selected as a paper presenter at the November 2021 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual meeting in St. Louis, MO: Topic: American and African Business Interaction Necessity.
• Selected as a paper presenter at the November 2020 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual meeting in St. Louis, MO: Topic: African Regionalism: The Route to Geoeconomic Influence.
• Selected as a paper presenter at the November 2019 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual meeting in St. Louis, MO Topic: An African Community College System.
• Selected as a paper present at the October 2019 International Studies Association (ISA) South Regional Annual meeting in Memphis, TN. Topic: African Colonialism and the First World War.
• Selected as a paper presenter at the November 2018 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual meeting in St. Louis, MO. Topic: Africa: 2068.