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William Ouchi, PhD

William Ouchi is Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Distinguished Professor of Corporate Renewal at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He was born and raised in Honolulu, the son of a dentist father and a schoolteacher mother. He is a graduate of Punahou School, Williams College (B.A.), Stanford University (M.B.A.) and the University of Chicago (PhD). He was a member of Central Union Church and currently serves as Moderator at Westwood Hills Congregational Church in Los Angeles. He is currently a trustee of the Japanese American National Museum, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Los Angeles Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools (operates 19 charter schools in inner-city Los Angeles), and the California Heart Center Foundation. He served for eight years as pro bono consultant to the New York City Department of Education in its recent implementation of his ideas, and currently serves in a similar role for the Los Angeles Unified School District. He served as Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and as education advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in California. He serves also on the boards of directors of two Fortune 500 companies. Among his books are Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge (1981) – a New York Times bestseller, Making Schools Work (2003), and The Secret of TSL:The Revolutionary Discovery that Raises School Performance.