
Happy Halloween 2019





Spent the long weekend in Minneapolis, MN, for this year’s Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society, which was my final conference as Chair of the Strategy Process Interest Group.

Thanks to Journal of Management‘s Editor-in-Chief David Allen for hosting the JOM editorial board at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association in Norfolk, VA!

Spent Labor Day weekend with the family in New York, and it was great to both share memories of our old stomping ground with the kids and experience new locations and sights together

Visiting the birthplace of our civilization and political system on our day trip to Athens…












Incredible vacation on Zakynthos, a tiny Greek island in the Ionian Sea! The most dramatic cliffs, hundreds-of-years-old olive trees, and the bluest water I’ve ever seen…

Another successful summer swim season with the South Riding Stingrays has just ended–with Sophia making Divisionals and Max becoming a Colonial Swim League All Star for the first time!


Just finished co-coaching Sophia’s Spring soccer season with the Jaguars–thanks to my head coach Eric and to Loudoun Soccer for another great season!

Great game last night in Washington DC’s Audi Field with DC United coming back in the second half for a 3-3 tie against Chicago Fire.
From today’s Wall Street Journal…

Happy to share that I have been awarded a one-year Ave Tucker Fellowship at George Washington University’s School of Business.
Named after George Washington University’s Board of Trustee member Avram S. Tucker, this fellowship recognizes faculty members who “displayed good teaching performance, as well as recent scholarly productivity, prospects for continued publications in top outlets, and records of research leadership and mentoring of junior scholars.”

Another great Spring Break trip for the Walter family in Punta Cana (including the mandatory 6am beach walks with Max)

After years of nagging and emotional blackmail by my kids, I finally agreed to get a puppy: A Havanese the kids named Fitzgerald (Fitz). And guess who’s doing the 5am walks with Fitz before work…

Enjoyed a great time skiing with the guys (Jorge Rivera & Mark Clark) in Snowshoe, WV

From the Walter Family!


We had a great time on our annual vacation in the Outer Banks, NC, with friends and family! And we were not the only ones as you can see in the video my friend Greg shot with his drone early one morning about 300 feet out into the ocean…


After becoming a Davidson Young Scholar a few months back, Max was just accepted into Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth program! Looking forward to the unique opportunities these programs have to offer for him…

Another big milestone to celebrate after becoming U.S. citizen a few weeks ago: I was just promoted to Full Professor at the George Washington University School of Business. It has been quite a journey from getting my PhD in 2005, becoming an Assistant Professor in 2006, moving from the West Coast back to the East Coast in 2010, and getting tenure in 2014.
Looking forward to the freedom but also the responsibilities that this new chapter in my career will bring with it…

Congrats to Sophia & Max for a successful swim season with the Stingrays! Max made it to Divisionals (for breast stroke) and Sophia is a 2018 League All Star (for breast stroke)!

Another great summer-night open-air concert with family & friends at Tarara Winery

After living, studying, and working in the United States since I arrived in Philadelphia almost 15 years ago, today, I became a naturalized citizen of this great country!

Sophia’s off to college again–to join this year’s University of Virginia Summer Enrichment Program. For twelve days, she’ll be living in a student dorm and taking classes on UVA’s campus.