How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations

Jay W. Lorsch has been on the Harvard Business School Faculty since 1964, teaching in the MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education programs. The Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations since 1970, Lorsch has held leadership positions at HBS, including: Chair of the Organizational Behavior Area, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of Executive Education Programs, and Chair of the Doctoral Program. He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including the award-winning Organization and Environment.

In this breakthrough book, renowned Harvard School Business Professor Jay Lorsch makes a powerful case for restoring business research to first-person observation and inductive reasoning rather than relying primarily on statistical analyses that lack real world insight. Working with the world's leadership experts for the past fifty years, Lorsch culminates his remarkable contributions to leadership in this remarkably insightful book. His conclusions will transform business research for decades to come.--Bill George, Executive Fellow, Harvard Business; Former chair and CEO, Medtronic, and author of True North: Emerging Leader Edition Jay Lorsch is a trailblazer, brilliantly championing the return to the roots of our field by urging deep, insightful diagnoses of organizations. His staunch advocacy for meticulous field research speaks volumes of his ground-breaking influence. A true titan and a dynamic force in organizational behavior, his relentless pursuit of knowledge challenges and inspires us to become informed problem solvers.--Tsedal Neeley, Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School