OBHR Distinguished Scholar Speaker Series, Amy C. Edmondson - Harvard School of Business
Thursday, February 2, 2017
10:30 am
KCTR 108
-Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of- society.
-She has been recognized in 2011, 2013 and 2015 by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers. Her articles have been published in Harvard Business Review and California Management Review, as well as in academic journals such as Administrative- Science Quarterly and the Academy of Management Journal. Her books - Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy and Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2012, 2103) - explore teamwork in dynamic work environments. In Building- the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation, (Berrett-Koehler, 2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries.
-Before 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, and her- book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Birkauser Boston, 1987) clarifies Fuller's mathematical contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in organizational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB- in engineering and design, all from Harvard University.
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