Research and Insights Archive

Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations

Paul Adler

Paul Adler

Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization, of Sociology, and of Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. He holds the Marshall Business School's Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy. He began his education in Australia and...

Ali E. Abbas

Ali E. Abbas

Ali E. Abbas is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. A leading authority in the field of decision and risk analysis, Dr. Abbas received his M.S. in electrical engineering; M.S. in...

Ian Ziskin

Ian Ziskin

Ian Ziskin is President of EXec EXcel Group LLC, a human capital coaching and consulting firm he founded in 2010 following a highly successful 28-year career as a corporate business executive. EXec EXcel Group builds individual and organizational credibility through...

Darryl Stickel

Darryl Stickel

Darryl holds a Ph.D. in Business from Duke University and completed his doctoral thesis on building trust in hostile environments. Upon completing his studies Darryl served as a consultant for Mckinsey & Company prior to founding his own consulting firm, Trust...

Dave Millner

Dave Millner

Dave Millner has a business (risk/lending) and HR background based in financial services where he was a key internal consultant involved with the research, design and delivery of performance/competency based consultancy solutions for a range of businesses and brands...

Lacey Leone McLaughlin

Lacey Leone McLaughlin

Lacey Leone McLaughlin is a leadership and talent management professional with demonstrated experience in marketing, designing, and delivering cutting-edge consulting services to Global 1000 companies. As an Affiliated Practitioner of Executive Education at the Center...

Soren Kaplan

Soren Kaplan

Soren Kaplan is an award-winning author, former corporate executive, co-founder of Praxie.com, a columnist for Inc. Magazine and Psychology Today, and an affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He is an...

Beth Gunderson

Beth Gunderson

Beth Gunderson is the Founder of Minikahda Partners, an organization and talent architecture firm specializing in organization design and enterprise transformation initiatives. Beth is also a permanent instructor at the University of Southern California – Center for Effective Organizations – in their Strategic Organization Design Workshop and Adapting to Disruption Workshop.

Gregory S Andriate

Gregory S Andriate

Gregory S Andriate, Ed.D., is Executive Director, Organization Innovation LLC, and partners with clients to revitalize capabilities securing sustainable business value for customers and shareholders. Recent projects include implementation of sustainable growth...

Sharoni Denise Little

Sharoni Denise Little

Dr. Sharoni Denise Little is a global strategist,leading organizational expert, and noted scholar. The CEO of The Strategist Company, LLC, a global boutique advisory company, her clients include corporate, educational, government, and community entities, where she...

Sharna Wiblen

Sharna Wiblen

Dr. Sharna Wiblen is an Assistant Professor within the Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong in Sydney, Australia. Her research integrates talent management, information technology and HR analytics to reveal the complexity of what talent really means. She...

Rami Shani

Rami Shani

Abraham B. (Rami) Shani is Full Professor of Management at the Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University. He has been a visiting Professor at The Stockholm School of Economics, Tel Aviv University and Politecnico Di Milano. His research...