Professor Jennifer A Howard-Grenville FBA

Summary

Jennifer Howard-Grenville is an expert on how people and business organisations generate and navigate change related to environmental sustainability. Her academic training in engineering, management, and technology studies equips her to bring a unique perspective to research and teaching on topics including business sustainability, energy transition and circular economy.

Howard-Grenville’s research examines how organisational cultures, identities and routines enable and inhibit change. She served six years in editorial roles at Academy of Management Journal, one of the field’s top journals. Through this work and other writing and leadership roles, she has helped open up the field of management studies to consider how businesses perpetuate and can address grand societal challenges. Having published more than 50 academic journal articles and several books, she also regularly contributes to publications like Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times.

Howard-Grenville earned a BSc in Engineering Physics at Queen’s University, Canada, an MA in PPE at Oxford, and a PhD in Technology, Management, and Policy from MIT. She is a Rhodes Scholar (Albert and New College 1990), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Fellow Commoner of Trinity Hall college, Cambridge. She has served as Vice-Chair of RRBM (Responsible Research in Business & Management) and serves on the Academic Network Advisory Committee for the UN PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment).

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