Title: Dean Emeritus of the MBA Program
Company: Presidio Graduate School
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Dwight E. Collins, Dean Emeritus of the MBA program at Presidio Graduate School, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Educators for dedication, achievements, and leadership in higher education.
Dr. Collins is a founding faculty member of the Presidio Graduate School, and has been dean emeritus of the school’s MBA program since 2021. The Presidio Graduate School was one of the first MBA programs in the United States explicitly incorporating environmental sustainability and social justice in every MBA course. The school was founded to provide a revolutionary new education for values-driven and visionary leaders. Dr. Collins has been pivotal in shaping the institution’s direction and impact, co-founding the school’s highly successful Experiential Learning Program in 2006, and serving as dean of the MBA Program from 2013 to 2015. He taught his signature Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management course from the school’s founding to 2021 and continues in guiding the school as a member of its Faculty Council.
Dr. Collins’ first experience as an educator was teaching on a part-time basis when he was a life cycle cost analyst on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. In this time frame, he taught courses in Statistical Decision Theory at the Air Force Institute of Technology and Finance at Wright State University’s School of Business. From 2003 to 2005, Dr. Collins lectured at another pioneering MBA Program in Sustainable Management at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. From 2009 to 2010, he was a co-designer and instructor in an executive certificate program in managing sustainability at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey.
Dr. Collins co-authored “Reshaping the Operations and Supply Chain Management Core Class Curriculum to Include Business Sustainability,” published in Operations Management Education Review, and “Why managers need an evolutionary theory of organizations,” published in Strategic Organization. He has also co-authored published works in supply chain design and operation, and on reclaiming values and vision in management education. He is president of the Collins Educational Foundation, which he established in 1999 to lead humanity’s efforts to live sustainably on Earth.
Prior to his transition into the field of education full-time in 2003, Dr. Collins served as an operations research analyst at Exxon Corp from 1980 to 1985, a senior consultant at Chesapeake Decision Sciences from 1985 to 1998, and senior manager at Aspen Technology from 1998 to 2002. Dr. Collins earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics in 1968 and a PhD in Operations Research in 1973, both degrees from Cornell University.
In addition to his primary vocation, Dr. Collins remains affiliated with a number of organizations in relation to his areas of expertise. He was a member of the International Big History Association and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Roundtable, and continues as a member of INFORMS. In the immediate future, he intends to undertake a number of sustainable business education-related projects while seeking new scalable opportunities to improve the human condition.
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