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James A. Phills Jr.
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior (Teaching), Stanford Graduate
School of Business; Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation; Director of the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders
and Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders-Arts; Director of the Strategy for
Nonprofit Leaders Executive Program; Director of the Executive Program for
Philanthropy Leaders; Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center
for Social Innovation
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 of 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; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford; Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy
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 environmental concerns. [View Profile]
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Deborah H. Gruenfeld
Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Deborah Gruenfeld is a social psychologist whose research shows how social structure affects the working of the mind. Her current research examines the psychological consequences of having power, which include an action-orientation, the tendency to objectify others, effects on ideological beliefs, and disinhibited behavior. She also has studied group decision making, and has written about, for example, the effects of majority and minority status on reasoning by members of the U.S. Supreme Court, and how newcomers and minority members affect generation, sharing and adoption of new ideas in small groups. [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 organization theory and human resource management. His current research focuses on 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.
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Paul F. Pfleiderer
C. O. G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Finance; Professor of Law (by courtesy), School of Law
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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