Gary Shields (aa3592)

University information

Contact information

Mike Ilitch School of Business

Title: Associate Professor of Teaching in Management

Phone: 313-822-3211

Email: gary.shields@wayne.edu

Office:

Mike Ilitch School of Business
2771 Woodward Avenue
Room 438
Detroit, MI 48201

Biography:

Mr. Shields has 37+ years of experience teaching business courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with an emphasis on management, organization behavior (including creativity and improvisation) and entrepreneurism. He has owned and operated his own businesses for the last 20 years and worked with more than 2000 small and start-up businesses as part of the university's former Small Business Development Center and Technology Transfer Center.  He is an advisor to the university's C2 Pipeline high school entrepreneur program, and the MISB high school entrepreneur dual enrollment program, and, formerly, YEA, a partnership with the National Association of Women Business Owners.  

Education:

• MBA, Wayne State University
• BBA, Kent State University
• Graduate of the Second City improvisational training academy

 

Research and teaching interests:

Teaching

• Entrepreneurism
• Improvisation
• Creativity
• Management

Publications:

Improv(e) Business: Developing Skills for Personal and Professional Success Gary Shields and Rico Bruce Wade, 2023, Kendall Hunt, text and video guide

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Courses taught by Gary Shields

Fall Term 2025 (future)

• MGT2530 - Management of Organizational Behavior
• MGT6995 - Management Capstone: Applying Management and Leadership Principles

Winter Term 2025 (current)

• MGT2530 - Management of Organizational Behavior
• MGT6995 - Management Capstone: Applying Management and Leadership Principles

Fall Term 2024

• MGT6890 - Strategic Management and Business Policy
• MGT6995 - Management Capstone: Applying Management and Leadership Principles

Spring-Summer Term 2024

• MGT8000 - Seminar in Management

Winter Term 2024

• MGT8000 - Seminar in Management
• MGT6890 - Strategic Management and Business Policy
• MGT6995 - Management Capstone: Applying Management and Leadership Principles

Fall Term 2023

• MGT6890 - Strategic Management and Business Policy
• MGT6995 - Management Capstone: Applying Management and Leadership Principles

Spring-Summer Term 2023

• MGT8000 - Seminar in Management

Winter Term 2023

• MGT6890 - Strategic Management and Business Policy
• MGT6995 - Management Capstone: Applying Management and Leadership Principles

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