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WEBINAR: Designing for Human + AI Work: Moving Beyond Performative Adoption to Purposeful Work Redesign

View Slides In partnership, The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) & Organization Design Forum (ODF) presented Designing for Human + AI Work: Moving Beyond Performative Adoption to Purposeful Work Redesign. Organizations are moving quickly to adopt AI, but...

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Alexis Fink, PhD Named Director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the USC Marshall School of Business

LOS ANGELES — October 6, 2026 — The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) at the USC Marshall School of Business today announced the hiring of Alexis Fink, PhD, a three-decade technology and people-analytics executive with senior roles at Meta, Microsoft, Intel,...

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WEBINAR: AI Trends, Tribulations and Transformations

View Slides Everyone is asking how many jobs AI will eliminate, and doomsayers warn of a coming jobs apocalypse. But most forecasts rely on a flawed assumption: that work can be cleanly broken into tasks, automated in isolation, and then translated directly into...

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Optimizing Human Resource Conditions for 20-Year Initial Public Offering (IPO) Survival

The entrepreneurship literature emphasizes the importance of imprints founders leave on companies; those imprints can change at transformational events such as the initial public offering (IPO). Prior research has found that objective measures (such as structure or...

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WEBINAR: Accelerating Microsoft’s AI Transformation: An organization design and development systems approach

View Slides In partnership, The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) & Organization Design Forum (ODF) presented Accelerating Microsoft’s AI Transformation: An organization design and development systems approach with Ewa Kacewicz, Head of Organization Design...

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