Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

October 11, 2002

Hilton co-chairs announced

by Kevin Brown
Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, owners of a consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses conceive and design new ways to add value to their product and service lines, have been named to the 2002-2003 Dean Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Pine and Gilmore are the co-founders of Aurora, Ohio-based Strategic Horizons LLP. The business partners have co-authored several articles and books on business strategies and innovation.

Pine is a faculty leader in The Pennsylvania State University's Executive Education Program, State College; a member of the executive education faculty at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business, Los Angeles; and a frequent guest lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of the book, Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition.

Gilmore began his career with Proctor and Gamble and then spent 10 years in the consulting industry. He is a member of both the Creative Education Foundation and the Creative Thinking Association of America. He is on the faculty of The Institutes for Organization Management for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.