Research and Insights Archive

Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations

Richard L. Nichols, Jr.

Richard L. Nichols, Jr.

Richard Nichols is the South Atlantic Division Executive for Bank of America Private Bank. Richard leads the overall effort to serve the wealth management needs of high net worth individuals and families in the South Atlantic U.S. which includes District of Columbia,...

Sven Thiele

Sven Thiele

A chemical engineer who became a technology entrepreneur after graduating from the University of Cape Town; riding the technology waves from the mid 80’s to 2010, primarily servicing the finance sector ranging from exchanges to investment banks and hedge funds....

Shayna Shulz

Shayna Shulz

Shayna Schulz is senior vice president, enterprise transformation, at Blue Shield of California, a $20 billion healthcare plan with more than 4.3 million individual, commercial, and government members statewide. Schulz and her team are creating a new operating model...

Mary M. O’Hara

Mary M. O’Hara

Mary O’Hara is Chief Human Resources Officer & Senior Vice President of Internal Communications at Blue Shield of California, a 4-million-member nonprofit health plan serving the state’s commercial, individual and government markets. She is responsible for the...

Edie Goldberg

Edie Goldberg

Edie Goldberg, Ph.D. is the President of E.L. Goldberg & Associates in Menlo Park, California. She is a nationally recognized expert in HR and talent management strategy and organizational effectiveness. She is the co-author of The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped...

Heather Stockton

Heather Stockton

Heather Stockton is a Functional Excellence Lead for Change Management at W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., makers of GORE-TEX®. She has a decade of progressive HR expertise including creating and operationalizing organization structures to support digital...

Maura Stevenson, Ph.D.

Maura Stevenson, Ph.D.

Maura Stevenson joined MedVet as Chief Human Resources Officer in 2017. In this role, she oversees all aspects of the Employee Experience, including talent management, compensation and benefits, leadership and employee development, and organizational development....

Nandini Rajagopalan

Nandini Rajagopalan

Nandini Rajagopalan is the Joseph A. DeBell Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organization. Her research examines platform-based markets, diversification and strategic alliances, CEO succession, and corporate governance. She has...

Peter Monge

Peter Monge

Peter Monge is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He is also the Director of the Annenberg Networks...

Ann Majchrzak

Ann Majchrzak

Ann Majchrzak is the USC Associates' Chaired Professor of Business Administration for Marshall. She teaches and does research on digital innovation. She has held concurrent appointments as a visiting professor at Esade Business School, Ramon Llull University,...

Janet Fulk

Janet Fulk

Janet Fulk is a Professor of Communication in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Professor of Management and Organization in the USC Marshall School of Business. She holds a B.A. in English from Michigan State University and M.B.A. and...

Thomas Cummings

Thomas Cummings

Tom Cummings is a leading expert in designing high-performing organizations and strategic change. He has published more than 20 books, including Handbook of Organization Development and Organizational Development and Change, and more than 60 articles. He has served on...