Roberta Senechal de la Roche, Professor Emeritus, Washington and Lee University, explains her lifelong interest in violence, sparked by personal experiences and exposure to historical events. Influential moments include witnessing a...

Roberta Senechal de la Roche, a retired historian and sociologist from Washington and Lee University, specialized in studying collective violence. Her first major publication, originally titled The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot, was later...

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The Power School of Strategy Formation. This school sees strategy formation as a process of negotiation.

Prof. Henry Mintzberg proposed that the practice of strategic management observes three main perspectives (or ―streams). Within these streams there are a total of ten different schools of thought concerning how strategist perceive the...

The Learning School of strategy sees strategy creation as an evolving, emergent process that is driven by learning. Specifically, individuals within an organization develop strategy as they experience situations, learn form them, and...

The Cognitive School focuses on the creative processes that take place in the mind of the strategist. It is very individualistic, in that that strategist creates a strategy based upon her personal knowledge, experiences, and perceptions.

This Video Explains the Quality of a Business School

This Video Explains Professors in Business Schools

This video provides an overview of the different schools of legal thought or jurisprudence. The video discusses various approaches to interpreting and applying law, such as formalism, natural law, and historical law, among others.

What is the Configuration School of Strategy? The Configuration schools view strategy formation (configuration) as a process of organizational transformation. Configuration refers to the organization and the context in which it operates.

The Cultural School of Strategic Formulation assumes that culture has important influence on strategy and that strategies are most likely to succeed when aligned with organizational culture. The school introduces ideas of collective...

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Andy Hargreaves is Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada and Research Professor at Boston College in the US. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Education, former President of the International...

Dennis Shirley is the inaugural Florencia and Marc Gabelli Family Faculty Fellow and Professor of Formative Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Dennis dedicates his life to the...

Gene Kim is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, researcher, and multiple award-winning CTO. He has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999 and was the founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He is the...

Edward Ayers is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities at the University of Richmond, where he is President Emeritus. President Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 2013, hailing his "commitment to making...

As a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Spear teaches in graduate and executive education programs and has advised several dozen graduate theses. He is also senior fellow at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement...

As a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Spear teaches in graduate and executive education programs and has advised several dozen graduate theses. He is also senior fellow at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement...

As a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Spear teaches in graduate and executive education programs and has advised several dozen graduate theses. He is also senior fellow at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement...

Karin Hurt inspires courage confidence, and innovation. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she’s known for growing courageous leaders, building great cultures, and inspiring high-performance teams.



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David Dye helps leaders and teams achieve transformational results without sacrificing their humanity. As a former executive and elected official, he is known for practical leadership techniques you can use right...

Karin Hurt inspires courage confidence, and innovation. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she’s known for growing courageous leaders, building great cultures, and inspiring high-performance teams.



She’s the award...

Melissa Tracy is a 2023 top ten finalist for the Global Teacher Prize. She teaches at Odyssey Charter School, an innovative and diverse dual-language Greek School founded in 2006 which is currently the second-largest public charter...