Mark Lipton, professor and chair of the Graduate Management Programs will become the Erik Erikson Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Austin Riggs Center during Winter-Spring 2009.

Austin Riggs is a small but prominent psychiatric center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the only top-20 psychiatric center that is not formally affiliated with a major university-based medical complex or located in a metropolitan center. Erikson Scholars are chosen from among the global academic community of scholars who specifically do not have a formal background in psychology or medical psychiatry.

Mark will work on his next book while on sabbatical during 2009. He will examine the psychopathology present in some U.S. entrepreneurs (both nonprofit and for-profit). His upcoming role at Riggs will enable him to expand his understanding of psychopathology and, as the Erikson Scholar, he will lead a number of seminars on organization change and leadership development.