Faculty Directors
Stanford Business School faculty members Dale T. Miller and James A. Phills, Jr., direct the Center for Social Innovation.
Dale T. Miller
Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior
A prolific social psychologist, Professor Miller focuses on the psychology of justice, social norms, philanthropy, and group decision making. Recently, he launched a new research project to better understand employee volunteerism and its benefits on the workforce. His work has informed public policy debates on immigration, health care delivery, and community governance. He teaches a new MBA elective, Beyond Self Interest Motivation.
After many years at Princeton University, Miller joined the Business School in 2002 and is also a professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at the School of Humanities and Sciences. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. Miller has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on a wide range of topics. He has received many awards and serves as consulting editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Faculty Profile
James A. Phills, Jr.
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior (Teaching)
Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation
Professor Phills specializes in the emerging area of social innovation; in particular, exploring the growing exchange of ideas, talent, capital, and values across sector boundaries and the shifting roles of business, government, and nonprofits in solving social problems. With a background in sociology and psychology, he has also studied learning at the group, organizational, and societal levels. He recently published Integrating Mission and Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations, a book that applies and adapts the core body of general management knowledge about mission, strategy, and execution to help nonprofit leaders deal with the special challenges they face.
Phills is the first appointee to the Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Directorship of the Center for Social Innovation. He developed and directs many of the Center's executive education programs including the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders, Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders–Arts, Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations, and the Executive Program for Philanthropic Leaders. He is academic editor of the Center's journal, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and also teaches MBA courses on nonprofit strategy and social entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the School, he was on the faculty at the Yale School of Management. Faculty Profile