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Hayagreeva Rao
Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources; Director of the Human Resources for Strategic Advantage Program; Director of the Customer-Focused Innovation Program
Professor Rao has published widely in the fields of management and sociology and studies the social and cultural causes of organizational change. In his research, he studies three sub-processes of organizational change: a) creation of new social structures, b) the transformation of existing social structures, and c) the dissolution of existing social structures. His recent work investigates the role of social movements as motors of organizational change in professional and organizational fields. [View Profile]
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Francis J. Flynn
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Faculty Scholar
Co-Director, Center for Leadership Development and Research
Frank Flynn studies leadership issues in organizations— particularly the traits, behaviors, and skills that define effective leadership. Professor Flynn's topics of interest include: (1) How employees can develop healthy patterns of cooperation; (2) How the negative impact of racial and gender stereotyping in the workplace can be mitigated; and (3) Why certain individuals tend to emerge as leaders and assume positions of power in organizations. His work bridges the fields of management and social psychology, leading to scholarly as well as practical insights on organizational life. [View Profile]
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Chip Heath
Thrive Foundation for Youth Professor of Organizational Behavior
Chip Heath's research focuses on two general areas: What makes ideas succeed in the social marketplace of ideas, and how can people design messages to make them stick? How do individuals, groups, and organizations make important decisions and what mistakes do they make? [View Profile]
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David F. Larcker
James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting; Director of the Stanford Directors' Forum Executive Program; Director of the Corporate Governance Research Program; Co-director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford; Robert and Marilyn Jaedicke Faculty Fellow for 2007-08
Professor Larcker’s research focuses on executive compensation, corporate governance, and managerial accounting. His work examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organizations. He has current research projects on the valuation implications of corporate governance, role of the business press in the debate on executive compensation, and modeling the cost of executive stock options. [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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Kathryn L. Shaw
Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Director, Summer Institute for General Management
Kathryn Shaw’s most recent research focuses on managing talent in high performance organizations. She studies how firms attract and build star talent in the software industry and in a range of knowledge-intensive industries. More broadly, Professor Shaw studies how companies can achieve measurable rates of return from investing in human resource management practices that are aimed at improving the performance of workers or teams of workers. She is identified as a co-developer of the field of "insider econometrics," in which researchers use internal "inside" company data to study the performance gains from practices such as teamwork and incentive pay. [View Profile]
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Jesper B. Sorensen
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences
Jesper B. Sørensen specializes in the dynamics of organizational and strategic change, and their implications for individuals and their careers. His research on firm outcomes has focused on the impact of organizational structure and culture on organizational learning, performance and innovation. His work of the dynamics of teams has led to new insights concerning how people respond to changes in the racial composition of their workgroups. Currently, Sørensen is engaged in a large-scale project on the determinants of entrepreneurial behavior that examines several previously unanswered questions, such as how work environments shape rates of entrepreneurship. [View Profile]
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Robert I. Sutton
Professor of Organizational Behavior (by courtesy), Stanford Graduate School
of Business; Professor of Management Science and Engineering,
School of Engineering; Codirector of the Customer-Focused Innovation Executive Program
Robert Sutton focuses on evidence-based management, the links (and gaps) between managerial knowledge and organizational action, innovation, and organizational performance. His research style emphasizes the development of theory and recommendations for practice on the basis of direct observation of organizational life and interviews with executives, managers, engineers, and other organization members. [View Profile]
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 The main point was the alignment between strategy, key success factors, culture and the role of HR. I'll transfer much of this learning to my company. The teaching was very, very good!
Wolfgang Elenz
Executive Director of Human Resources
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