A Dynamic Experience at Penn

Organizational Dynamics students benefit from the resources and prestige of the University of Pennsylvania—an historic, Ivy League institution with a tradition of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship.

Students and faculty meet before classes at the University Club on Penn's campus for dinner to decompress after the day’s work, to network with colleagues and to participate in the Dinner Lecture Series where leading thinkers and practitioners present their newest ideas.

We are committed to extending and sustaining education beyond the classroom by providing an environment full of academic and intellectual exchanges, networking activities and social events for our community. Students enrolled in project courses also help academic and organizational partners with development and sustainability challenges.

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Penn Traditions

Experience America’s first university’s age-old traditions that reflect our rich and proud heritage. Learn about the origin of our school colors, and our school song, The Red and Blue. Learn more

Walter Licht PhD, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences

Walter Licht was named Annenberg Professor of History in the School of Arts and Sciences in November, 2007. He began teaching at Penn in 1977 and from 1995 to 2004 he served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. He has also been responsible for the SAS Research Centers (including Organizational Dynamics) and several other academic structures.

He teaches Is Bigger Inevitable, Better,
or Worse in Organizations? in which
students examine the large corporation
in terms of history, governance and
control, and delivery of (office) work.
The course examines whether “bigness”
and bureaucracy are inevitable and
how organizations of the present, and
probably the future, are affected by
those of the past.