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About the Authors
ALLAN R. COHEN
The Edward A. Madden
Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership and Director of Corporate
Entrepreneurship at Babson College, Cohen recently completed seven years as
Chief Academic Officer, leading major curriculum and organizational changes, and
has returned to the faculty to teach leadership, change and negotiations. He is
a noted author, speaker and consultant.
Dr. Cohen is the
co-author of the best seller, Managing for Excellence, (recently
re-issued by Wiley as a Management Classic), and Power Up; Transforming
Organizations through Shared Leadership, also with David Bradford, was
published in 1998, and selected as one of the best leadership books of 1998 by
the Management General website. Their classic, Influence Without
Authority has been reviewed and published in April 2005. Among
his many publications is a co-authored textbook, Effective Behavior in
Organizations (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 7 editions, latest 2000), which has been
adopted by more than 300 colleges, and has had a major impact on the teaching of
organizational behavior. He also co-authored the award-winning Alternative
Work Schedules: Integrating Individual and Organizational Needs. Dr. Cohen
edited The Portable MBA in Management (Wiley, 2nd ed. 2002).
Dr. Cohen’s consulting
clients for a variety of change projects have included IBM, General Electric
(Work Out), Rohm And Haas, Exel, The Hartford, Polaroid, Home Depot, Reebok,
Decision Resources, General Scanning, General Mills, Chubb Life, SmithKline
Beecham, Digital Equipment Corporation, MITRE, DSM, and Sulzer Infra. A member
of the Social Venture Network, he is on the Sohodojo Advisory Board (“Home of
the nanocorp and small business revolutionaries”) and on the advisory board of
CellMark Global Inc. - Mili Multimedia Afghanistan, and Suvidha Starnet in India. He served on the Sulzer Infra
Academy Advisory Board.
A popular speaker, he
has given speeches and seminars to such organizations as Pfizer, IBM, Fidelity
Investment, CSC,
Rockport, Nypro, New Balance, Serono, Mellon Private Bank, American Productivity
Management Association, Digital Equipment Corporate Leaders Forum, Chase Bank,
Westcott Communications, Center for Quality Management, Lafarge, and AT&T on:
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Leadership: Creating Extraordinary Performance
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Influence
Without Authority; Getting Things Done
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Implementing Strategic Change
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Managing
for Excellence
Formerly the J. R.
Carter Professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and
Economics, University of New Hampshire, Cohen was director of the Whittemore
School's M.B.A. program from 1974-1979, where he was voted outstanding faculty
member.
Dr. Cohen helped create
the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. He has also been a visiting
professor at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, a consultant in
London and Austria, and a guest seminar leader at IMEDE (now IMD) in Lausanne,
Switzerland. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and a guest
lecturer at Stanford Business School. Recently he completed a two year term as
chair of the Business Accreditation Committee of the AACSB. He was named in 2005
as a TIAA-CREF Institute Fellow.
Dr. Cohen earned an A.B.
from Amherst College and M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard Business School.
David L. Bradford
Eugene O'Kelly II, Senior
Lecturer in Leadership at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford
University and Dean of the Stanford Executive Program on Leadership, Dr.
Bradford is a noted author, speaker and consultant.
His
publications have focused on leadership and influence and in addition to
numerous articles, has co-authored with Allan R. Cohen the following three
books: Managing for Excellence, Influence Without Authority, and Power
Up: Transforming Organizations Through Shared Leadership. He also
co-edited with W. Warner Burke, Reinventing O.D.
Dr.
Bradford is on the Editorial Board of
Academy of Management
Learning and Education, The Journal of
Applied Behavior Science,
and The
Journal of Management Education. He is also a member of the Advisory Board to the Jossey-Bass
Series on Organization Change and Development.
Dr.
Bradford was the founder and first Executive Director of The Organizational
Behavior Teaching Society. He was the recipient of the 1998 “Exemplar of
Excellence in Education” from The University of Phoenix.
He is a
member of The Academy of Management, The American Psychological Association,
The Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and The NTL Institute of
Applied Behavioral Science (where he was a past member of the Board of
Directors).
He has
consulting and developed training programs with a variety of organizations in
the private and not-for profit sector including IBM, Cisco Systems,
Hewlett-Packard, Oracle for Small Business, Pepsico/Frito Lay, Levi Strauss,
Raychem, Allergan, McKinsey & Co, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The
San Francisco Museum of Asian Art, and The Detroit Institute of Art.
Dr. Bradford received
his B.A. in psychology from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology
from The University of Michigan.
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