Marion McCollom Hampton, Ph.D.
Marion McCollom Hampton is a Senior Partner with OMBI. She has been active in the family business field for 20 years, and has been named a Fellow in the Family Firm Institute. She is co-author of a foundational work in the family business field, Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business (with Kelin Gersick, John Davis, and Ivan Lansberg, Harvard Business School Press, 1997).
Dr. Hampton maintains an active consulting practice in the family business field, focused on helping families address relationship and governance issues to achieve business continuity from generation to generation. She has designed and run workshops for families in business in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, as well as in the United States.
Dr. Hampton has published a number of articles on the structure and dynamics of family-owned business, one of which was selected for inclusion in The Best of the Family Business Review, in addition to several cases, a number of scholarly articles on organizational culture, and two books dealing with organizational issues. She was recently named Book Review Editor for the Family Business Review.
Dr. Hampton was on the Organizational Behavior faculty of Boston University's School of Management from 1986 to 1997. She taught in the executive, MBA, doctoral, and undergraduate programs at the school and served for three years as Faculty Director of the MBA Program, responsible for launching the school’s new MBA curriculum. She also served on the core faculties of Boston University's Executive MBA and Leadership Institute executive programs.
Dr. Hampton has also taught in university executive leadership programs at Dartmouth's Tuck School and the Wharton School, as well as in private corporate programs for Carrier, General Electric, Caterpillar, Grant Thornton LLP, and JP Morgan Chase Private Bank. She has consulted to a variety of publicly traded, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations, primarily on improving working relationships, cultivating leadership skills, and developing effective organizational structure and decision-making.
Dr. Hampton received an AB magna cum laude from Harvard University, an MPPM (masters of management) from the Yale School of Management, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, with distinction, from Yale University. She has served on a number of non-profit boards and is a member of the Kaw/Kanza tribe of Oklahoma.