Leading Sustainable Change
An Organizational Perspective
Edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman
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Edited by Rebecca Henderson, John & Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard Business School, Ranjay Gulati, Jaime and Josephina Chua Tiampo Professor, Harvard Business School, and Michael Tushman, Paul R. Lawrence, MBA Class of 1942 Professor, Harvard Business School
Rebecca Henderson is John & Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, and a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also faculty co-chair of HBS's Initiative for Business and the Environment. Her research focuses on the difficulties large organizations encounter in attempting to innovate and change, particularly in response to the challenge of sustainability. She has worked with some of the largest firms in the world and with entrepreneurial start-ups in a wide variety of industries including energy, pharmaceuticals, information technology, materials and consumer goods. In May 2011, Dr. Henderson was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce Innovation Advisory Board which guided a study of U.S. economic competitiveness and innovation to help inform national policies at the heart of U.S. job creation and global competitiveness, and in June 2013 she became a member of the World Economic Forum's global agenda council on the role of business.
Ranjay Gulati is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor and the Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is also the Chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms. His recent work explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets. Some of his prior work has focused on the enablers and implications of within-firm and inter-firm collaboration. He has looked at both when and how firms should leverage greater connectivity within and across their boundaries to enhance performance. Professor Gulati is the past-President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and an elected fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite.
Michael L. Tushman Is the faculty chair of Leading Change and Organizational Renewal (LCOR) and the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) at the Harvard Business School. Prior to PLD, Tushman was faculty chair of the Advanced Management Program (AMP). At Columbia, he won the first W. H. Newman Award for excellence and innovation in the classroom; in 2005, Tushman was named Lecturer of the Year at CHAMPS, Chalmers University of Technology; in 2008 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva where he was commended by the university as a scholar internationally recognized for his work on the relationships between technological change and organizational evolution; in 2011 he was given the Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour & Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School; in 2013 he was awarded the Academy of Management Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management
Contributors:
Deborah Ancona, MIT Sloan School
Elaine Backman, MIT Leadership Center
Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School
Mary Ann Glynn, Boston College
Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta
Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business School
Martine Haas, The Wharton School
Bruce Harreld, Harvard Business School
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School
Bob Hinings, University of Alberta
Kate Isaacs, MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation
Dev Jennings, University of Alberta
Christi Lockwood, Boston College
John Macomber, Harvard Business School
Alfred Marcus, University of Minnesota
Kathy Miller, Miller Consultants
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
Charles O'Reilly, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Ryan Raffaelli, Harvard Business School
George Serafeim, University of Alberta
Luciana Silvestri, Harvard Business School
John Sterman, MIT Sloan School of Management
Donald Sull, MIT Sloan School
Michael Tushman, Harvard Business School
Andrew Van der Ven, University of Minnesota
Tiona Zuzul, Harvard Business School
