Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation + Change Initiative. She is also a co-founder of the global Democratizing Work Initiative.
Professor Battilana’s research examines the politics of change in organizations and in society. She’s especially focused on organizations and individuals that initiate and implement changes that diverge from the taken-for-granted norm. She is particularly interested in studying organizations that break with dominant models of organizing, including businesses that pursue social and environmental objectives alongside financial ones. She teaches on power and influence, leadership, and change in organizations and in society.
She is the co-author of two books: Power, for All: How it Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021) and Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy (University of Chicago Press, 2022, originally published in French by Le Seuil, 2020). Her academic scholarship has been recognized by multiple awards, including the George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management for her book Power, for All, and the Outstanding Social Innovation Thought Leader Award from the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum. She received a joint PhD from INSEAD and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from UC Louvain in 2024.
Websites:
- https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=382192
- https://sici.hks.harvard.edu/
- https://democratizingwork.org/
Email: jbattilana@hbs.edu