Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory
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Ron
Ashkenas
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Education
BA, Wesleyan University
EdM, Harvard University
PhD, Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University
Positions Held
At Haas since 2013
2013 - present, Executive-in-Residence, Haas School of Business
1979 - present, Senior Partner, Schaffer Consulting
1995 - 2010, Managing Partner, Schaffer Consulting
External Service and Assignments
- Co-Founder of the Rapid Results Institute (http://rri.org), a non-profit dedicated to using the rapid results methodology to improve economic development around the world
- Forbes Blog
Current Research and Interests
- Managerial Success -- Why some managers succeed and others do not
- Managing Complexity -- and how simplification needs to be a core competence for leaders
- Organizational transformation and innovation -- how leaders can reinvent and reinvigorate their organizations
Selected Papers and Publications
- "Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done" (Harvard Press, 2010);
- "The GE Work-Out: How to Implement GE's Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy and Attacking Organizational Problems -- Fast" (co-authored with Dave Ulrich and Steve Kerr), McGraw-Hill, 2002;
- "The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure" (co-authored with Ulrich, Kerr, and Jick), Wiley, 2002;
- "Rapid Results: How 100-day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change" (with Robert Schaffer), Wiley, 2005
- "The Merger Dividend", Harvard Business Review, July 2011
- "Why Good Projects Fail Anyway", Harvard Business Review, September, 2003
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