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|  William Barnett
Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations
Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business
William Barnett studies competition among organizations and how organizations and industries evolve over time. He has studied how strategic differences and strategic change among organizations affect their growth, performance, and survival. This research includes empirical studies of technical, regulatory, and ideological changes among organizations, and how these changes affect competitiveness over time and across markets. His studies span a range of industries and contexts, including organizations in computers, telecommunications, research and development, software, semiconductors, disk drives, newspaper publishing, beer brewing, banking, and concerning the environment.
William Barnett is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. In 1991, Barnett came to the Stanford Business School as an Assistant Professor. He became an Associate Professor in 1994 and received tenure in 1996, and has been a full professor since 2001. Barnett has also twice been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He also serves as Co-Director of the Executive Program in Strategy and Organization and Co-Director of the High-Potentials Executive Program.
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 David Evans, '03, MS '09, (Stanford Program in Design), Teaching Assistant at the Product Realization Lab
Dave Evans returned to Stanford to pursue a master's in design after several years in industry. He teaches the integration of design, manufacturing and the self in the Product Realization Lab, Stanford's student machine shop. Evans delves into the creation of wonderful things for his master's thesis, combining a passion for innovation and creativity with years of experience at half a dozen prominent design and engineering firms. Having worked on just about everything from iPods to nuclear submarines, he is able to use a wide array of professional experiences to address problems. Dave prefers to collaborate with diverse groups of people, using design to synthesize disparate perspectives into coherent visions that are grounded in pragmatic expertise. He specializes in taking amorphous ideas, pushing their boundaries, then bringing them into reality.
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 Heather McLeod Grant
Author, speaker, and consultant to high-impact organizations and
Advisor, Center for Social Innovation
In addition to her work at Stanford and as an advisor to the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Heather McLeod Grant is a published author and speaker and a senior consultant to the Monitor Institute. She is the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, which was named a top ten book of 2007 by the Economist. She is a former McKinsey & Co. consultant and a co-founder of Who Cares, a magazine for young social entrepreneurs published from 1993-1999.
Ms. Grant has more than 15 years of experience in the social sector, and consults with leading philanthropic and nonprofit institutions. She teaches at Stanford, and speaks and presents widely at industry conferences on social entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership and strategic philanthropy. She has been published in the NewYork Times, the American Prospect, and Alliance, and has appeared on CNN and NPR. She serves on the advisory boards of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the National Civic League. She holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB from Harvard University, and resides in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
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 Chip Heath
Professor of Organizational Behavior,
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Chip Heath’s research examines why certain ideas—including urban legends, folk cures, Chicken Soup for the Soul stories and business strategy myths—survive and prosper in the social marketplace of ideas. A few years back Professor Heath designed a course, now a popular elective at Stanford, that asked whether it would be possible to use the principles of naturally sticky ideas to design messages that would be more effective. The material from that course, “How to Make Ideas Stick,” has been taught to hundreds of students including managers, teachers, nonprofit leaders, doctors, journalists, venture capitalists, product designers, and film producers.
He is the coauthor (along with his brother, Dan) of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, published by Random House in January 2007.
Professor Heath's research has appeared in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Consumer Behavior, Strategic Management Journal, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Popular accounts of his research have appeared in Scientific American, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, Psychology Today, Vanity Fair, NPR, and a National Geographic television show.
He has taught courses on organizational behavior, negotiation, strategy, international strategy, and social entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Stanford, Professor Heath taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He received his BS in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D in psychology from Stanford.
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 Peter Hero
Senior Fellow, teacher & author, Center for
Social Innovation.
Former President & CEO, Community Foundation
of Silicon Valley
From 1989 to 2007, Peter Hero was the President and CEO of Community Foundation Silicon Valley (CFSV), where in that time he grew total assets from $7 Million to over $1.1 Billion, with annual grants exceeding $150 million. In January, 2007 he helped enable the merger of CFSV with a neighboring community foundation, creating Silicon Valley Community Foundation to which he is now Senior Advisor. In 1998, CFSV created the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), the region’s pre-eminent venture philanthropy giving circle. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University School of Business, a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) and M.A. (With Distinction) in Art History from Williams College, and (Honorary) Doctor of Laws from the Maine College of Art.
Mr. Hero is the founding Chairman of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Foundation and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Skoll Foundation, eBay Foundation, PBS, Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service, the American India Foundation. He is a Visiting Fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he also lectures for the School. For more than 12 years Peter has been working in Central and Eastern Europe to help create networks of locally-based community foundations. He currently chairs the World Bank Advisory Committee on global community foundation development and is a member of the Melbourne (Australia) Community Foundation Board of Directors.
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 Sam Kaner
Executive Director of Community at Work
Organizational Development Consultant to the Stanford Center for Social Innovation
Sam Kaner, Ph.D., is regarded as one of the nation's leading experts on consensus decision-making. His classic text, Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making is an international bestseller, now in its 18th printing. Mr. Kaner was named as one of the world's leading experts in collaboration by the International Association of Facilitators, and in 2005 AmericaWest Airlines honored Sam as one of America's best consultants. He has been the Organizational Development consultant for the Center for Social Innovation since 2005.
Mr. Kaner's other public service clients have included the World Bank, the United Nations, March of Dimes, Special Olympics, Omidyar Network, Annie E. Casey Foundation and more than 200 other foundations, social enterprises, schools, university centers, social service programs and government agencies. His corporate clients have included VISA International, Charles Schwab and Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Since 1987, he has been executive director of Community At Work, a San Francisco-based consulting firm that specializes in strategic collaboration. |
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 James Patell
Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management, Co-director of the Product Realization Network
James Patell's research and teaching interests center on business process and product design, operations management, manufacturing, and cost accounting. At Stanford since 1975, Mr. Patell is a popular and demanding teacher who has authored numerous articles in accounting. As Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Business from 1985 to 1991, James Patell redesigned and revitalized the public management program, which focuses on government, nonprofit organizations, and public service. He is currently Co-director of the Product Realization Network at Stanford, a cooperative research and educational program involving the business and engineering schools, together with industrial partners.
He is also a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. In 1998 he received the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2007 he was awarded both the Robert T. Davis Faculty Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Graduate School of Business and the Miriam Aaron Roland Award for Volunteer Service at Stanford University. [Faculty Profile] |
 James A. Phills
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
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 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.
Professor 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, the 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 Graduate School of Business, he was on the faculty at the Yale School of Management. [Faculty Profile]
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This non-residential two-day program will be held at the Stanford Business School's 
Sheraton Palo Alto