Professor Herminia Ibarra FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Business and management
- Sections
- Management and Business Studies
- Website
- http://www.herminiaibarra.com/
Summary
Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties. An authority on leadership and career development, Thinkers 50 ranks Ibarra among the top management thinkers in the world. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, one of Apolitica’s 100 most influential people in gender policy, and the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research’s contribution to management practice.
She is the author of best-selling books Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader and Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Ibarra also writes regularly in leading academic journals and business publications including the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. Ibarra speaks internationally on leadership and organizational transformation.
A native of Cuba, Ibarra received her MA and PhD from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow.
Current post
The Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School
Past appointments
INSEAD The Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning
2007 - 2017
INSEAD Chaired Professor of Organizational Behavior
2002 - 2007
Harvard University Professor
1998 - 2002
Harvard University Associate Professor
1994 - 1998
Harvard University Assistant Professor
1989 - 1994
Yale School of Management Teaching Fellow
1985 - 1989
Université Libre de Brussels Research Fellow
1984 - 1985
Publications
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
Herminia Ibarra - Published in 2015 by Harvard Business Review Press
Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
Herminia Ibarra - Published in 2004 by Harvard Business Review Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ann Langley FBA
Organization and Management Theory; Strategy processes and practices; Organizational change; Health care organizations; Identity in organizations; Collective leadership; Qualitative research methods
Professor John Scott FBA
Social stratification and power, property ownership and business organisation; theory and its history in sociology, early British sociology; social network analysis, research methodology, the use of documents in social research.
Professor Paula Jarzabkowski FBA
Applying financial market mechanisms to meet development and social goals for protection from disaster; practice theory, strategy-as-practice
