Bert Spector, Associate Professor Human Resources Management

Bert Spector is an internationally recognized expert and popular speaker, teacher, and consultant in the area of organizational effectiveness and change management. He is currently an associate professor of organizational behavior at Northeastern University in Boston. He has also been a Visiting Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Senior Executive Program, a visiting professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and Insead (France), and is associated with the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiations.

He is a prolific writer who is the author of the Taking Charge and Letting Go: A Breakthrough Strategy for Creating and Managing the Horizontal Company (Free Press). In addition to this recent book, he has co-authored The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal (Harvard Business School Press) - winner of the Johnson, Smith, Knisley Award for New Perspectives of Executive Leadership - Human Resource Management: A General Manager’s Perspective (Free Press), and Managing Human Assets (Free Press). His articles have appeared in numerous publications including the European Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and Success.

The organizations with which he has worked include the Association of Academic Health Centers, Arbella Insurance, Bekhaert, International (Belgium), Coloplast A/S (Denmark), Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (France), Curtis Instruments, EG&G, IBM, U.K. James River, the Phoenix Group of Japan, Management Centre Europe, Motorola, Raddison Edwardian Hotels (U.K.), Ricoh, U.K. Sterling Medical, and the Wharton School Financial Employee Relations Study Group.

"Taking Charge and Letting Go - A Breakthrough Strategy for Creating and
Managing the Horizontal Company," (New York: Free Press, 1995).

"The Sequential Path to Transformation Management," European Management
Journal (1995)

"Beyond TQM Programs: The Organizational Imperatives of Total Quality
Management," Journal of Organizational Change Management with Michael
Beer (1995)

"Organizational Diagnosis: Its Role In Organizational Learning,"
Journal of Counseling and Development with Michael Beer (1993)

"Why Change Programs Don't Work," Harvard Business Review with Michael
Beer and Russell Eisenstat (1990)

"The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal,"with Michael Beer and Russell
Eisenstat (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1990)

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