John Doggett
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business
John Doggett is an award-winning Professor of Instruction at the McCombs School of Business of The University of Texas at Austin. John joined the faculty as an Adjunct Assistant Professor to teach one class a semester on global competition in 1989. In 2000, John became a full-time member of the faculty.
Today, John teaches MBA courses about entrepreneurship, global competition, and sustainability. John has won more student-selected “Outstanding Teaching” Awards (15) than any current member of the McCombs faculty. In May 2025, The Texas Execs, UT Austin’s Alumni Association, honored John with one of its university-wide “Texas-10” Teaching Awards.
John has been the Chair of the University Faculty Advisory Committee on Budgets. John was also the Academic Director of the UT Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders – Leadership in Business Institute for nine years.
John has taught courses on entrepreneurship and venture capital in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. He has experience collaborating with companies and trade associations in a wide range of industries, including economic development, electric utilities, oil, gas, and coal, manufacturing, retail, transportation, software and non-profit.
John practiced law for seven years in Connecticut and California. He started his career as a legal services attorney representing poor clients. He then spent five years as Director of Legal Services of the State Bar of California helping to expand access to civil legal services in that state. During his legal career, John’s clients told him that what they wanted most was to get a job so they would no longer being poor.
In 1979, John left the practice of law and enrolled at Harvard Business School to learn about how to create jobs. At HBS, John focused on international economic development. After graduation, John became a McKinsey consultant and worked in McKinsey’s Washington, DC and Copenhagen, Denmark offices.
John left McKinsey after two years to create his own international management consulting firm. His firm focused on helping developing countries transform their economies to become more market oriented. From 1983 to 1993, John consulted with clients in twenty-five countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
In 1994 John co-founded a Spanish Language sports television company that had an exclusive 3-year contract with the National Football League (NFL). His company produced programs about American professional football in Spanish that aired in fifty-four cities in the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
In 1996, John became the host of his own radio talk show on KVET-AM in Austin. The John Doggett Show became one of the most influential afternoon talk shows in Central Texas. In January 1997, Texas Monthly called John a “Hot Radio Personality” “who allows listeners to disagree with him without cutting them off.” In March 1997, the New York Times published two articles about The John Doggett Show. In August 1997, C-SPAN simulcast John’s show nationally. In February 1998, Talker’s Magazine selected John as one of the 100 Most Influential Talk Show Hosts in America. John’s show ended when his station switched formats from 24-hour talk to 24-hour sports.
John is a co-author of When We Are the Foreigners: What Chinese Think about Working with Americans. John is also co-executive producer of Shakespeare on the Range, a short film about Louisiana prisoners learning how to become actors in the stage play Macbeth.
John received his BA from Claremont McKenna College in 1969, his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1972, and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981. He is married to Haiping Tang, a semi-professional photographer who was a senior manager for Compaq, Dell, and Samsung Electronics.
