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Professor David Krackhardt
Professor of Organizations, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and
Management, Carnegie Mellon University, and GSIA joint appointment PhD,
Organizational Behavior, University of California, Irvine
Teaching and Research Interests: Social network analysis of organizations. This includes how networks form and change over time, how they are perceived, how they affect the behavior and power of individuals in the organization, and how they affect the performance of organizations as a whole. Also work to develop statistical and mathematical methods that enable the study of networks in social systems. He pioneered the concept of "cognitive social structures.
Programs:
Power & Influence Seminar (MBA) OB Course (MBA)
Organizational Power & Politics (MBA) Human behavior in Organizations (MBA) Public Management (MBA)
Information Technology (MBA)
Professor Paul Hirsch
James L. Allen Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Management and
Organizations at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Member of
the Sociology and Communication Studies Departments
At Kellogg, he teaches the Organizational Change class in the Executive MM program, as well as at TMP and on the Evanston campus. He has consulted for major companies, and taught in executive programs for Kellogg, University of Arizona, and Singapore's National Productivity Board; as well as startup.
Paul Hirsch teaches MBA Programs at Kellogg as well as at the US Business School in Prague, Hong Kong University and AILUN, Italy.
Programs:
Executive Masters (MBA) Organizational Change (MBA)
Professor James Phills
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior (Teaching) at Stanford Graduate
School of Business; Codirector of the Center for Social Innovation: Director of the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders, Director of the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders-Arts
Research Areas: Strategic change and organizational learning, societal and institutional learning, social innovation, global leadership.
Programs:
EPSO (EXEC)
Organizational Behavior (MBA) LEAD program (EXEC)
EPNL-Arts program (EXEC) Qualcomm program (EXEC) Cemex-Cimp program (EXEC)
Professor Paul Ingram
Professor of Business at Columbia University
Visiting Holder of the Prichard Chair of Management, Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto
Visiting Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University
Research Interests: The creation and change of institutions. Organizational evolution and learning. Organizations as carriers of ideology. The relationship between organizations and the state.
Teaching Interests: Organizational theory, strategy and integrated management courses, and organizational behavior.
Programs:
Leading & Managing Organizations (MBA) Strategic Formulation & Implementation (EXEC) Creating Effective Organizations (MBA)
Managing Organization Behavior (MBA)
Professor John Van Maanen
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of
Management
Behavioral Policy Science (BPS)
Research Interests: John Van Maanen studies people the old-fashioned way—by living with them. Among the groups he has studied ethnographically are Gloucester fishermen, Disneyland ride operators, US patrol officers, and London detectives and their supervisors. Cultural descriptions figure prominently in his writings about occupational conflicts, organizational careers, and work routines. His recent studies examine the social history of ethnographic understanding of work organizations and the various ways particular occupation identities take shape and change work settings.
Programs:
Influence Training (EXEC)
Leading Change in Complex Organizations (EXEC)
Professor James W. Dean
Associate Dean, Executive Education; Sarah Graham Kenen Distinguished Scholar;
Professor of Management – Organizational Behavior at University of North Carolina
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Research and Teaching Interests: Leadership, organizational change, strategic decision making, international management and organizational performance improvement are the focus of his research, teaching and consulting. Dr. Dean has participated in research, teaching and/or consulting projects with many companies, including ALCOA, Boeing, DuPont, ExxonMobil, GE, Honeywell, Kaiser Permanente and St. Laurie Ltd.
Programs:
Professor Gerald Davis
Sparks Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor; Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Department Chair, OB and HR
Management at University of Michigan Business School
Research and Teaching Interests: Professor Davis's research examines the influence of politics and social networks on the evolution and structure of the institutions of corporate governance, and conversely on the influences of financial globalization on social structure and politics.
Programs:
UMBS course (MBA) EMBA course (MBA)
Social Capital course (MBA) Social Networks course (MBA)
Professor Brian Uzzi
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and Sociology at Northwestern
University, Kellogg School of Management
In the Kellogg MBA program, Brian teaches courses on leadership and Organizational Behavior. In Kellogg's Executive Development Programs, he teaches a range of topics including networking, reputation building, decision making, team leadership and development, and change management for customized company programs and for business degree and certificate programs such as the Kellogg Management Institute (KMI), Kellogg Executive MBA Program, IRI, and EDP.
Brian Uzzi advises and speaks at major firms worldwide, including Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), Baker and McKenzie, Anderson Consulting, Frito-lay, Takada Pharmaceuticals, UNITE (formerly ILGWU), Total Quality Schools, Hearst Media Worldwide, and the World Bank.
Programs:
EMP program (EXEC)
Tel Aviv and Hong Kong University (EXEC) YPO program (EXEC)
Leveraging Personal Networks and Relationships to champion Change (EXEC) Championing Change through Others (EXEC)
Developing Effective Networks (EXEC)
Professor Karen Golden-Biddle
Professor, Strategic Management and Organization & Director, Health Organization
Research, University of Alberta School of Business, Canada
Research Interests: Implementing organizational change, especially how symbolic systems such as culture and identity shape change. Particular focus on implementing health system change. Producing and using scientific knowledge in particular communities, including related areas of practitioner use of research knowledge and the process of qualitative research. “My teaching and research interests complement one another since I teach about various aspects of human life in organizations – including culture, politics, and change which I also research.”
Programs:
Professor Eric Abrahamson
Professor of Management at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New
York
Teaching and Research Interests: Professor Abrahamson studies the creation, spread, use and rejection of innovative techniques for managing organizations and their employees. He uses time-series techniques to explore how macroeconomic and macropolitical forces have caused the popularity of various types of management techniques to rise and fall between 1870 and the present. This work guides his research explaining recent, transitory waves in the popularity of many modern management techniques, such as T-groups, quality circles, corporate culture, total quality management and business process reengineering. His teaching focuses on the use of power and influence techniques by managers to lead widespread, successful and lasting organizational change.
Programs:
Creating Effective Organizations (MBA) Custom Leadership Institute (MBA)
Leading & Managing in Organizations (MBA)
Professor Ranjay Gulati
Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University
Michael Ludwig Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Strategy & Organizations
Research Areas: Inter-organizational Networks, Creating and Managing Strategic Alliances, Strategy Implementation, Intra- and inter-organizational coordination in alliances, mergers, and internal cross-unit collaboration.
Programs:
“GEMS” program (EXEC)
Professor Col Mark McGuire
Professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at National Defense
University
Research Interests: Publication: McGuire, M. A. (2001-02). "Senior Officers and Strategic Leader Development," Joint Forces Quarterly, Number 29, Autumn/Winter (2001-02), p. 91-96.
Programs:
LTIS course (MBA) ISSL course (MBA)
Professor Valery Yakubovitch
Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy at University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business
Research Interests: The role of social networks in organizations and markets, corporate governance, social organization of post-socialist economies.
Programs:
Evening Course (MBA)
Professor Tal Simons
Visiting Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University
Teaching the EIS Simulation at Columbia University
Teaching and Research Interests: Organizational theory, the relations between organizations and ’the state’, the role ideology plays in organizational structure and survival. Interorganizational relations, the geneology of organizations and organizations’ founders.
Programs:
Leading & Managing in Organizations (EXEC-MBA), OB Course (MBA)
Professor Wayne Baker
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Professor of Sociology; Professor of Organizational Studies, LSA & Faculty Associate, Institute for
Social Research at University of Michigan Business School
Research and Teaching Interests: He is Principal Investigator of the 2003 Detroit Area Study and Principal Investigator and Team Leader for the Detroit Arab American Study. He continues his long-standing research in the areas of networks and organizations, social capital, economic sociology, and cultural change.
Programs:
BBA program (MBA)
Professor Brent Smith
Assistant Professor of Management and Psychology at the Jones Graduate School of
Management and Department of Psychology at Rice University
Research Interests: Professor Smith's research interests focus broadly on personality issues in work organizations including response dynamics in personality measurement; the personality correlates of effective work performance and the relationship between personality and organizational climate/culture. In addition, his current research focuses on individual differences in susceptibility to social influence and the personality correlates of justice perceptions.
Programs:
Change Management (MBA), Management program (MBA)
Professor Gabriel Szulanski
Professor of Management at University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of
Management
Research Interests: Knowledge Management. Challenges faced by newly established companies and established companies in creating e-commerce strategy
Programs:
Professor Jeffrey R. Edwards
Belk Distinguished Professor of Management – organizational Behavior at University
of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
Research and Teaching Interests:
His research and teaching focus on individual and organizational change, person-organization fit, stress and coping in person-organizations, and strategies that jointly promote employee well-being and corporate competitiveness. Dr. Edwards has taught executive education programs on topics such as individual and organizational change, employee involvement, human resource management and executive lifestyle.
Programs:
EM – ELP program (EXEC)
Professor Kim Elsbach
Associate Professor of Management at University of California Davis Graduate School
of Management
Research Interests: Symbolic processes in organizations, the acquisition and maintenance of organizational and individual reputations, individual processes of identification and trust, linking micro- and macro-level theories of organizations. Teaching field: Organizational Behavior.
Programs:
Selling Innovation (MBA) Executive program (EXEC)
