Julie Battilana

Harvard Business School & Harvard Kennedy School

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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.

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 taken-for-granted norms—that break with the status quo.

She teaches on power and influence, leadership, and organizational change. She is the 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).