HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING - Key Persons
"Focus is scary-until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway."
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. She was recognized in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 in the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and leadership, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, and California Management Review. Her books-Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy; Teaming to Innovate; Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation; and Extreme Teaming-examine teamwork in dynamic work environments. Prior to her academic career, she was director of research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as chief engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller.
Bob Simons is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the past 30 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education programs. In January 2017, Simons published a 15-module series on strategy execution, available through Harvard Business Publishing, which details the latest techniques for using performance measurement and control systems to implement strategy. Simons has also developed a new app, the Job Design Optimization Tool, which can be used to design, or test the design of, any job in any organization. In addition to being an award-winning author, Simons has published his ongoing research into the relationship between business strategy, organization design, and management control systems has been published in a number of academic journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Capitalism and Society, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting Literature. Simons has served as a consultant to many companies on topics related to strategy execution, organization design, performance measurement, and strategic control.
Job Titles:
- Chief of Staff
- Chief of Staff of Corporate Learning at Harvard Business Publishing
- Managing Director of Product Management at Harvard Business Publishing
- Managing Director, Product Management
Diane Belcher is managing director of product management at Harvard Business Publishing. She is responsible for strategy, business performance, category management, and market awareness across all of the Corporate Learning product lines. Prior to joining the Harvard Business Publishing team, Diane worked for Fidelity Investments, where she held various roles in human resources and led the customer experience strategy for the workplace investing business.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Global Sales
Doug is Vice President Global Sales. In this role, he oversees our Global Sales teams, Partnerships, Alliances and Channel activities around the world. He and his team partner with Harvard Business Publishing CL colleagues to, create, design, and deliver exceptional leadership development and talent solutions to some of the world's most distinguished brands and Global 2000 companies…. More
Doug is Vice President Global Sales. In this role, he oversees our Global Sales teams, Partnerships, Alliances and Channel activities around the world. He and his team partner with Harvard Business Publishing CL colleagues to, create, design, and deliver exceptional leadership development and talent solutions to some of the world's most distinguished brands and Global 2000 companies.
Prior to this role, as Sr. Director, Doug led the CL Eastern US field sales region. He is dedicated to developing and deepening customer partnerships and exceeding their business needs.
Doug has been a business professional for over 40 years with leading management and technology consulting firms. He previously worked as senior vice president with Lee Hecht Harrison and began his career with Automatic Data Processing partnering with Human Capital leaders.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of Finance and Operations for Corporate Learning
- Managing Director, Finance and Operations
Ed Crowley is managing director of finance and operations for Corporate Learning. In this role, he oversees financial and operational activities for the Corporate Learning business unit. In 1995, he joined Harvard Business Publishing, where he held a number of different business manager roles with Harvard Business Review Group. Before his time with Harvard Business Publishing, Ed served as a financial consultant at Towers Perrin, Inc., and William M. Mercer, Inc.
Job Titles:
- Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration
Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. Gino teaches Decision-Making and Negotiation in the MBA elective curriculum and in Executive Education programs. She co-chairs an HBS Executive Education program on applying behavioral economics to organizational problems, and another on driving profitable growth. Gino has won numerous awards for her teaching and research, and in 2015 was chosen by Poets & Quants to be among their "40 under 40," a listing of the world's best business school professors under the age of 40. In 2017, she was chosen by Thinkers50 as one of the most influential management thinkers in the world. Gino's research focuses on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees can have more productive, creative, and fulfilling lives. Gino is the author of Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan, and Rebel Talent: Why It Pays To Break The Rules At Work And In Life.
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Fellow in the Center
Heidi K. Gardner is a distinguished fellow in the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. She also serves as a lecturer on law and as the faculty chair of the school's Accelerated Leadership Program executive course. She was previously on the faculty at Harvard Business School. Gardner has also been awarded an International Research Fellowship at Oxford University's Said Business School. Gardner's research focuses on leadership and collaboration in professional service firms, and her book Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos was published by Harvard Business Review Press in January 2017. Her research received the Academy of Management's prize for Outstanding Practical Paper with Implications for Management. She has authored or coauthored more than 50 book chapters, case studies, and articles in scholarly and practitioner journals. Gardner has lived and worked on four continents, including positions with McKinsey & Co. and Procter & Gamble, and as a Fulbright scholar.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Learning
Ian Fanton is Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Learning. He is responsible for expanding the reach and overall strategic direction and impact of Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning business. Ian has held a number of leadership positions in the organization since he joined in 1992. He most recently served as the vice president of product management, where his team was responsible for strategy, business performance, category management, and market awareness of all Corporate Learning's client offerings. Ian also served as head of global sales, learning solutions, and marketing. Prior to his time at Harvard Business Publishing, Ian worked in executive and corporate education at Boston University, and held sales and marketing positions with Linkage, Inc., and the Boston Red Sox.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Vice President, Educational & Learning Product Development
Laura Helliwell is vice president of educational & learning product development. In this role, she manages the team responsible for developing, building, and enhancing learning experiences for both our educational and corporate learning markets. Her team includes content developers, learning designers, user experience professionals, agile practitioners, and project managers. Laura joined Harvard Business Publishing in 2011. Prior to joining the organization, Laura worked for Cengage Learning, NETg, a finance start-up, and a medical devices start-up.
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill's research focuses on implementing global strategies and leading innovation, building innovative organizations and ecosystems, developing leaders for innovation, and the role of the board in governing innovation. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and has been at the forefront of developing various award-winning innovative learning programs for managers and leaders. Hill has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young Presidents' Organization Presidents' Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Program, and Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation. Hill is the coauthor of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, co-founder of Paradox Strategies, and co-creator of the Innovation Quotient. She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top 10 management thinkers in the world in 2013 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015.
Job Titles:
- Cahners - Rabb Professor of Business Administration
Michael Beer is Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School; co-founder and director of TruePoint Partners, a management consultancy that works with senior executives to develop effective, high-performance, and high-commitment organizations; and co-founder of the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of companies and leaders committed to creating economic and social value. Beer has researched and written widely about organization effectiveness; organizational change; high-commitment; high-performance organizations; leadership; and as human resource management. In addition to numerous book chapters and articles in academic and business journals, Beer is author or coauthor of 11 books. Among them is the groundbreaking Managing Human Asset s and the award-winning The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal. Beer has consulted to senior management in several industries-manufacturing, services (hospitality, professional, and financial), consumer packaging, high tech, pharmaceutical, and medical technology, and has served on several professional, not-for-profit, and corporate boards.
Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management and director of the Center for Program Innovation at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. He joined the tenured faculty at Bryant after serving for six years on the faculty at Harvard Business School. Roberto has written two books: Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes For An Answer and Know What You Don't Know. He has also created three best-selling lecture series for The Great Courses: The Art of Critical Decision Making, Transformational Leadership, and Critical Business Skills: Strategy. The Case Centre recently compiled a list of the 40 best-selling case study authors in the world among over 8,000 faculty members, and Roberto ranked #25 on this list. Roberto has taught in the leadership development programs and consulted at a number of Fortune 500 firms, and has also presented at numerous government organizations. Over the past 14 years, Roberto has served on the faculty at the Nomura School of Advanced Management in Tokyo, where he teaches in an executive program each summer.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Business Strategy, Corporate Development, and Analytics
Peter Walsh is managing director of business strategy, corporate development and analytics. He leads our global efforts to drive strategic insights into action through strategy formulation, customer and market intelligence, data analytics, and strategic partnerships. Peter previously served as global head of… More
Peter Walsh is managing director of business strategy, corporate development, and analytics. He leads our global efforts to drive strategic insights into action through strategy formulation, customer and market intelligence, data analytics, and strategic partnerships. Peter previously served as global head of marketing for Corporate Learning. Before joining Harvard Business Publishing, Peter was head of global marketing at the international consulting firm Monitor Group. His background includes stints as chief marketing officer of professional services firm Strategic Pricing Group and the technology services firm Akibia (now Zensar). Prior to his marketing leadership roles, Peter was a management consultant with CSC Index (now DXC Technology) in North America and Europe.
Ranjay Gulati is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; unit head, Organizational Behavior; and chair, Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms. His recent work explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high-growth organizations in turbulent markets. As the chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program, he has directed several Executive Education programs on topics such as building and leading customer-centric organizations, managing customer relationships, managing strategic alliances, handling mergers and acquisitions, and sustaining competitive advantage in turbulent markets. He has been ranked as one of the top 10 most-cited scholars in economics and business over a decade by ISI-Incite, and sits on the editorial board of several leading journals, including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Gulati advises and speaks to corporations large and small around the globe, and has been a frequent guest and panelist on CNBC.
Job Titles:
- Innovation and Transformation
- Senior Partner at Innosight
Scott D. Anthony is a senior partner at Innosight and the former managing partner of the firm. Based in the firm's Singapore offices since 2010, he has led Innosight's expansion into the Asia-Pacific region, as well as its venture capital activities (Innosight Ventures). In his more than a decade with Innosight, Anthony has advised senior leaders in companies such as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Singtel, Kraft, General Electric, LG, the Ayala Group, and Cisco Systems on topics of growth and innovation. He has extensive experience in emerging markets, particularly in India, China, and the Philippines. In 2017, Anthony was awarded the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, which recognizes the world's leading thinkers on innovation. Scott is one of Harvard Business Review's most prolific contributors and is the coauthor of the book Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future.
Anthony is a featured speaker on topics of innovation and growth. He has delivered keynote addresses on five continents, and has appeared on Good Morning America, Channel News Asia, CNBC, and FOX Business.
Tammy Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author, a leading expert on generations in the workplace, and a widely respected authority on leadership, the changing workforce, collaboration and innovation, and the nature of work in intelligent organizations. She has three times been named one of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. Erickson is an executive fellow, organizational behavior, at London Business School, where she has designed and codirects the school's premier leadership program for senior-most executives, Leading Businesses into the Future. She is the founder and CEO of Tammy Erickson Associates, a research-based firm of renowned thought leaders and senior business leaders committed to developing insights into the challenges that today's businesses are facing and offering a specific set of services that help companies reshape their organizational practices. In addition to past research exploring demographics, employee engagement, and teams, her current research is focused on the implications of social enterprise software on the way we work.
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- Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School
Tsedal Neeley is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She has taught in both the MBA program (LEAD, Leading Teams in a Global Economy, Field Global Immersion) and numerous Executive Education programs, including Global Strategic Management and the Program for Leadership Development. She is a recipient of the HBS Charles M. Williams award for outstanding teaching in Executive Education. With her award-winning book, The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations, Neeley's research focuses on the challenges that global collaborators face when they work across national boundaries. Prior to her academic career, Neeley spent 10 years in private industry working for companies such as Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various capacities including strategies for global customer experience, 360-degree performance software management systems, sales force/sales management development, and business flow analysis for telecommunication infrastructures.