Leading Sustainable Change

• Foreword


• Introduction


• 1: Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, Michael Tushman: Leading Sustainable Change: An Introduction


• 2: Rebecca Henderson: Making the Business Case for Sustainability


• The Big Picture


• 3: John Sterman: Stumbling Towards Sustainability


• 4: Luciana Silvestri and Ranjay Gulati: From Periphery to Core: A Process Model for Embracing Sustainability


• 5: Rosabeth Moss Kanter: How Purpose-Based Companies Master Change for Sustainability: A Systemic Approach to Global Social Change


• The role of the senior team


• 6: Mary Ann Glynn, Christi Lockwood and Ryan Raffaelli: Staying the Same while Changing: Organizational Identity in the Face of Environmental Challenges


• 7: Donald Sull: Two Tales of One City: Samsung, Daewoo, and Lessons on Large-Scale Transformation


• 8: Kathy Miller and George Serafeim: Chief Sustainability Officers: Who are they and what do they do?


• Exploring the processes of change


• 9: Deborah Ancona, Elaine Backman, and Kate Isaacs: Two Roads to Green: A Tale of Bureaucratic versus Distributed Leadership Models of Change


• 10: Michael Tushman, Charles O'Reilly and Bruce Harreld: Leading Proactive Punctuated Change


• Leading change in the broader system


• 11: Amy C. Edmondson, Martine Haas, John Macomber and Tiona Zuzul: The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability


• 12: Alfred Marcus and Andrew Van der Ven: Managing Shifting Goal Consensus and Task Ambiguity In Making the Transition to Sustainability


• 13: Royston Greenwood, Dev Jennings and Bob Hinings: Sustainability and Organizational Change: An Institutional Perspective

Rebecca Henderson is John & Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, and a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also faculty co-chair of HBS's Initiative for Business and the Environment.
Her research focuses on the difficulties large organizations encounter in attempting to innovate and change, particularly in response to the challenge of sustainability. She has worked with some of the largest firms in the world and with entrepreneurial start-ups in a wide variety of industries including energy, pharmaceuticals, information technology, materials and consumer goods.
In May 2011, Dr. Henderson was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce Innovation Advisory Board which guided a study of U.S. economic competitiveness and innovation to help inform national policies at the heart of U.S. job creation and global competitiveness, and in June 2013 she became a member of the World Economic Forum's global agenda council on the role of business.

Ranjay Gulati is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor and the Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is also the Chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program.
He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms. His recent work explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets. Some of his prior work has focused on the enablers and implications of within-firm and inter-firm collaboration. He has looked at both when and how firms should leverage greater connectivity within and across their boundaries to enhance performance.
Professor Gulati is the past-President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and an elected fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite.

Michael L. Tushman Is the

Henderson, Gulati & Tushman have organized, edited and led some of the world's leading relevant business strategists and thought leaders to create the defining guide for Leading Sustainable Change at the executive, organizational and institutional level. It will inspire follow-on research globally and guide leaders in the world's top companies who are moving sustainability from the "periphery to the core." Jim Boyle, Sustainability Roundtable Inc