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James A. Phills Jr.
Professor of Organizational Behavior (Teaching); Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation; Director of the Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship
Jim Phills is director of the Center for Social Innovation (CSI). He directs a number of CSI’s executive programs and teaches MBA electives on nonprofit strategy and social entrepreneurship. His research focuses on the emerging area of social innovation. In particular, Phills explores the growing exchange of ideas, talent, capital, and values across sector boundaries and the shifting roles and relationships between business, government, and nonprofits in development of innovative solutions to social problems. He has also studied learning at the group, organizational, and societal levels of analysis.[View Profile]
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William P. Barnett
Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations; Director of the Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability Executive Program; Codirector of the Executive Program in Strategy and Organization; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford; Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy; BP Faculty Fellow in Global Management
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 the environment.[View Profile]
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Deborah H. Gruenfeld
Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior; Codirector of the Executive Program for Women Leaders
Deborah H Gruenfeld is a social psychologist whose research and teaching examine how people are transformed by the organizations and social structures in which they work. The author of numerous articles on the psychology of power, and on group behavior, Professor Gruenfeld has taught popular courses on these and related topics to MBA students and executives at Stanford and at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.[View Profile]
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Jeffrey Pfeffer
Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior
Jeffrey Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organizational theory and human resource management. His current research focuses on the relationship between time and money, power and leadership in organizations, economics language and assumptions and their effects on management practice, how social science theories become self-fulfilling, barriers to turning knowledge into action and how to overcome them, and evidence-based management: what it is, barriers to its use, and how to implement it.[View Profile]
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Paul Pfleiderer
C.O.G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Finance; Professor of Law (by courtesy), School of Law; Graduate School of Business Trust Faculty Fellow for 2009-2010; Codirector of the Wealth Management Program
Paul Pfleiderer’s research is primarily focused on issues arising in financial markets when traders are asymmetrically informed. He has developed theoretical models to analyze how information is incorporated in prices through trading and how information flows determine trading volume. He has also analyzed how information is sold to investors when the value of the information is reduced the more widely it is disseminated. In addition he has studied problems in measuring active funds’ performance, contracting concerns in venture financing, policy issues related to disclosure requirements, and explanations for the stock market crash of 1987. His current research concerns corporate governance.[View Profile]
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Jerry I. Porras
Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Director of the Leading and Managing Change Executive Program
Jerry Porras’ research interests are the characteristics of visionary companies in both the United States and Europe; the dynamics of planned organizational change process; organizational vision and its influence on the long-term behavior organizations; and leadership. [View Profile]
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