Walter Nord as Intellectual and Pedagogical Hero.

The article presents an interview with Walt Nord, professor at the University of South Florida and the recipient of the Academy of Management's Distinguished Educator Award. Nord was born in Mount Kisco, New York in 1939. He took up economics and political science at Williams College. His interest in trade unions and labor market economics led him to the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell for his Masters degree. By chance, his graduate assistantship was with an organizational psychologist, Ned Rosen. Rosen served as an important mentor to Nord and encouraged him to pursue a doctorate in psychology. At Washington University, Nord was fortunate to receive a fellowship at the community mental health program that was led by John Glidewell. Following his student days at Washington University, he continued on there as a teacher in business school. With respect to the personal dimension, Nord's first paper, which emerged from his dissertation on conformity and exchange theory and was published in an issue of the "Psychological Bulletin," was very important to him.