Two decades on one question
why do organisations win, grow, and hold the people who make them work?
Brooks C. Holtom is a Professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. His research examines how organisations acquire, develop, and retain human and social capital. The work appears in the field's flagship journals and is applied inside companies, government agencies, and multilaterals on three continents.
Scholar, teacher, and practitioner
Holtom's research traces a single question across three streams of inquiry: how organisations acquire, develop, and retain the human and social capital that makes them work. His papers appear in the discipline's flagship journals, among them the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management, alongside a long list of peer-reviewed outlets in management, psychology, and HR.
In 2007 the AACSB published its Report on the Impact of Business School Research, a survey of scholarship that had measurably shaped policy and practice. Holtom's work was named specifically, in company with Harvard's Michael Porter, MIT's Peter Senge, and Nobel laureate James March.
He has carried that work into classrooms and boardrooms. The Western Academy of Management named him its Ascendant Scholar of the Yearin 2005, and two consecutive cohorts of Georgetown's Executive Masters of Leadership Program have voted him Professor of the Year. He has run research engagements and advised executives at organisations spanning the Fortune 500, the U.S. government, the multilateral system, and major Asian conglomerates.
Honors & named citations
AACSB Report · Cited for impact
The 2007 AACSB Report on the Impact of Business School Research named the work as a notable contribution to management policy and practice, listed alongside Michael Porter (Harvard), Peter Senge (MIT), and Nobel laureate James March.
Ascendant Scholar of the Year
Recognised by the Western Academy of Management for the trajectory and influence of his early career scholarship on retention and embeddedness.
Professor of the Year · twice
Voted Professor of the Year by two consecutive cohorts of the Georgetown University Executive Masters of Leadership Program, an award decided by the participants themselves.
Selected organisations he has worked with
Degrees & training
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