Lead with Confidence and Conscience

How do you manage a company in a complex and turbulent business environment? Our flexible curriculum aims prepare you to think strategically, act responsibly, manage diverse teams, and stay at the forefront of innovation.

As the largest department in the business school, we offer core courses for all undergraduate business majors, MBA, and master’s programs. From learning to manage individual human resource issues to designing the organizational structure of a global company, the breadth of our program allows you to lead at any level.

Our undergraduate management majors take a rigorous foundation of courses to foster innovative ideas and efficiently work in a variety of organizational structures. We emphasize management as a deliberate practice wherein graduates are theoretically informed, technically skilled, and imbued with a sense of responsibility and care for all stakeholders and the public good. And there is no better place than Silicon Valley to learn about Entrepreneurship and Leading Innovative Organizations through our MBA concentrations.

You’ll take classes from faculty who actively balance scholarship with practice. They invite Silicon Valley executives into the classroom, engage in research that directly benefits local and global companies, serve in leadership roles for the Academy of Management, and hold editorial positions in our fields’ top journals.

Our graduates are highly desired by Silicon Valley firms because we train students to foster innovative ideas and efficiently work in a variety of organizational structures.

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Submissions from 2016

Revisiting open innovation: Lead by letting go, Terri L. Griffith

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Emerging Digital Frontiers for Service Innovation, Christoph Peters, Paul Maglio, Ralph Badinell, Robert R. Harmon, Roger Maull, James C. Spohrer, Tuure Tuunanen, Stephen L. Vargo, Jeffrey J. welser, Haluk Demirkan, Terri L. Griffith, and Yassi Moghaddam

Submissions from 2015

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Back to Basics: Facilitating Engagement in Modern Work Environments, Terri L. Griffith, Emma Nordbäck, John E. Sawyer, and Ronald E. Rice

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Religion, Religiosity, and Leadership Practices: An Examination in the Lebanese Context, Joe Hage and Barry Z. Posner

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An Investigation Into the Leadership Practices of Volunteer Leaders, Barry Z. Posner

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A Longitudinal Study of Canadian Student Leadership Practices, Barry Z. Posner, Bob Crawford, and Roxy Denniston-Stewart

Submissions from 2014

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To Get Honest Feedback, Leaders Need to Ask, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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John R. Wooden, Stephen R. Covey and Servant Leadership: A Commentary, Barry Z. Posner

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The Impact of Gender, Ethnicity, School Setting, and Experience on Student Leadership: Does It Really Matter?, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2013

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Framework for Communication, Certified Equity Professionals Institute and Terri L. Griffith

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Tools to help employees work together, Terri L. Griffith

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The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Things Happen, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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It’s How Leaders Behave That Matters, Not Where They Are From, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2012

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Get Serious About Social Media, Terri L. Griffith

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Lead Through Resources, Terri L. Griffith

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Technology and Teams: The Next Ten Years, Terri L. Griffith

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Effectively Measuring Student Leadership, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2011

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Are You a ‘Plugged-In Manager’ - Book Offers New CEO Survival Skills, Terri L. Griffith

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Tapping into social media smarts, Terri L. Griffith

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Leadership Begins With an Inner Journey, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2010

A decision process model to support timely organizational innovation, Andre L. Delbecq, Terri L. Griffith, Tammy L. Madsen, and Jennifer L. Woolley

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Multilevel knowledge and team performance, Terri L. Griffith and John E. Sawyer

The Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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Another Look at the Impact of Personal and Organizational Values Congruency, Barry Z. Posner

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Values and the American Manager: A Three-Decade Perspective, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2009

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Developing and Validating Field Measurement Scales for Absorptive Capacity and Experienced Community of Practice, David Cadiz, John E. Sawyer, and Terri L. Griffith

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Reaching for the Moon: Expanding transactive memory's reach with wikis and tagging, Terri L. Griffith, Mark B. Allan, and Anthony A. Korolis

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Research team design and management for centralized R&D, Terri L. Griffith and John E. Sawyer

Leadership Practices Inventory: Assessing How Leaders Get Extraordinary Things Done, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

The Leader’s Mandate: Create a Shared Sense of Destiny, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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To Lead, Create a Shared Vision, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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Leaving Nothing to Chance: Modeling the Proactive Structuration of a New Technology, Gregory B. Northcraft, Terri L. Griffith, and Mark A. Fuller

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A Longitudinal Study Examining Changes in Students' Leadership Behavior, Barry Z. Posner

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From Inside Out: Beyond Teaching About Leadership, Barry Z. Posner

Leadership is Everyone’s Business (A forward), Barry Z. Posner

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On Putting Theory Into Practice, Barry Z. Posner

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Understanding the Learning Tactics of College Students and Their Relationship to Leadership, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2008

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Borgs in the Org? Organizational Decision Making and Technology, Terri L. Griffith, Gregory B. Northcraft, and Mark A. Fuller

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Changing perceptions - and triggering innovation, Terri L. Griffith and John E. Sawyer

Leaders Gaze Beyond the Horizons, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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Be Leaders. Do Leadership., Barry Z. Posner

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The Play’s the Thing: Reflections on Leadership from the Theater, Barry Z. Posner

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We Lead from the Inside Out, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

Submissions from 2007

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Neither here nor there: Knowledge sharing and transfer with proactive structuration, Terri L. Griffith, Mark A. Fuller, and Gregory B. Northcraft

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Silicon valley's ‘one-hour’ distance rule and managing return on location, Terri L. Griffith, Patrick J. Yam, and Suresh Subramaniam

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Information technology and the fabric of organization, Raymond F. Zammuto, Terri L. Griffith, Ann Majchrzak, Deborah J. Dougherty, and Samer Faraj

Submissions from 2006

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Experienced community of practice and knowledge transfer in a science/technology company, David Cadiz, Terri L. Griffith, and John E. Sawyer

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Supporting technologies and organizational practices for the transfer of knowledge in virtual environments, Terri L. Griffith and John E. Sawyer

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Virtual study groups: A challenging centerpiece for "working adult" management education, Gregory B. Northcraft, Terri L. Griffith, and Mark A. Fuller

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Spirituality and Leadership Among College Freshmen, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2005

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Organizational Science and the NSF: Funding for Mutual Benefit, Mariann Jelinek and Terri L. Griffith

Empowerment, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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Leading in Cynical Times, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

When Leaders Are Coaches, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

The Leader’s Passion, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2004

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Prelude to virtual groups: Leadership and technology in semi-virtual groups, Terri L. Griffith and David K. Meader

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Follower-Oriented Leadership, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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Creating and disseminating knowledge among organizational scholars: The role of special issuesCreating and disseminating knowledge among organizational scholars: The role of special issues, Paul Olk and Terri L. Griffith

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A Leadership Development Instrument for Students: Updated, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2003

Social and technical aspects of electronic monitoring: To protect and to serve, Terri L. Griffith

Conflict and virtual teams, Terri L. Griffith, Elizabeth A. Mannix, and Margaret A. Neale

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Virtualness and knowledge in teams: Managing the love triangle of organizations, individuals, and information technology, Terri L. Griffith, John E. Sawyer, and Margaret A. Neale

Leaders Must Build Cultures of Collaboration, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2002

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Negotiating Technology Implementation: An Empirical Investigation of a Website Introduction, Terri L. Griffith, David A. Tansik, and Lehman Benson III

Link Me to Your Leader, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Seven Lessons for Leading the Voyage to the Future, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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Software, shareware and freeware: Multiplex commitment to an electronic social exchange system, Matthew A. Liao-Troth and Terri L. Griffith

The phenomenology of conflict in virtual work teams, Elizabeth A. Mannix, Terri L. Griffith, and Margaret A. Neale

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Investigating the Effectiveness of Corporate Advisory Boards, André Morkel and Barry Z. Posner

Leadership as a Way of Being (Preface to), Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2001

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Exploring the relationship between learning and leadership, Lillas Brown and Barry Z. Posner

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Beyond socio-technical systems: introduction to the special issue, Terri L. Griffith and Deborah J. Dougherty

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Information processing in traditional, hybrid, and virtual teams: From nascent knowledge to transactive memory, Terri L. Griffith and Margaret A. Neale

Bringing Leadership Lessons From The Past Into The Future, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Learning to Lead, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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What Does It Mean to Act with Integrity?, Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 2000

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Negotiating medical technology implementation: Overcoming power and stakeholder diversity, Terri L. Griffith and Marion G. Sobol

The Janusian Leader, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

When Leaders Are Coaches, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 1999

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Technology features as triggers for sensemaking, Terri L. Griffith

Submissions from 1998

Project Leadership, D. L. Caldwell and Barry Z. Posner

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A CEO’s-Eye View of the IT Function, Peter S. DeLisi, Ronald L. Danielson, and Barry Z. Posner

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Cross-cultural and cognitive issues in the implementation of new technology: Focus on group support systems and Bulgaria, Terri L. Griffith

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Facilitator influence in group support systems: Intended and unintended effects, Terri L. Griffith, Mark A. Fuller, and Gregory B. Northcraft

The Project Manager, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 1997

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Media effects and communication bias in diverse groups, Anita D. Bhappu, Terri L. Griffith, and Gregory B. Northcraft

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Ten Lessons for Leaders and Leadership Developers, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

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Effective Orientation Advisors are Also Leaders, Jeanne Rosenberger and Barry Z. Posner

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Managerial Values Across Cultures: Australia, Hong Kong and the U.S., Robert I. Westwood and Barry Z. Posner

Submissions from 1996

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Negotiating successful technology implementation: A motivational perspective, Terri L. Griffith

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Cognitive Elements in the implementation of New Technology: Can Less information Provide More Benefits?, Terri L. Griffith and Gregory B. Northcraft

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Envisioning the Future: Imaging Ideal Scenarios, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

The Legacy You Leave Is The Life You Lead, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

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The Values of Business and Federal Government Executives: More Different Than Alike, Barry Z. Posner and Warren H. Schmidt

Submissions from 1995

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"Fixed pie" a la mode: Information availability, information processing, and the negotiation of sub-optimal agreements, Robin L. Pinkley, Terri L. Griffith, and Gregory B. Northcraft

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Leadership is Everyone's Business & Other Lessons from Over a Dozen Years of Leadership Research, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

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A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Shared Values Relationship, Barry Z. Posner and Robert I. Westwood

Submissions from 1994

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Distinguishing between the forest and the trees: Media, features, and methodology in electronic communication research, Terri L. Griffith and Gregory B. Northcraft

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Leadership Practices of Effective Student Leaders: Gender Makes No Difference, Barry Z. Posner and Barbara Brodsky

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An Extension of the Leadership Practices Inventory to Individual Contributors, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes