Department: Marketing and International Business 

Areas of expertise:  

• Crisis leadership
• Higher education entrepreneurial leadership
• Pragmatic leadership
• Entrepreneurial venture startup and development
• Business growth
• Business and executive coaching
• Business strategy development
• Program evaluation
• Needs assessments
• Organizational restructuring
• Organizational strategic design
• Nonprofit organizations in the United States and abroad
• Multilevel data modeling and analysis 

Majdoub teaches:

• BUS160 – Critical Thinking in Modern Business & Entrepreneurship
• IB200 – Foundations of International Business
• MKTG 498 – X-Labs Course – Organized Retail Crime (Starting Fall 2025) 

Majdoub’s research focuses on charismatic, ideological, pragmatic leadership; crisis mitigation; entrepreneurship; higher education experiential learning; and college student work teams. 

Majdoub earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at American University of Beirut and an MBA in strategic management at the University of Wales. He is working on his doctoral dissertation in strategic leadership studies at James Madison University.

Media contact: Chad Saylor, saylorcx@jmu.edu