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Ph.D., Harvard University

A.M., Wellesley College
A.B., Wellesley College

Teaching Interests and Areas of Expertise

Leadership, achieving styles, crisis management, organizational behavior, gender roles

Current Research Interests

Connective leadership in a diverse and interdependent world; Why followers tolerate toxic leaders; Leadership rhetoric and illusions; A practical theory of crisis management. 

Professional Activities

The Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior, Professor Lipman-Blumen is a co-founding director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership.  She has served as assistant director of the National Institute of Education and as special advisor to the Domestic Policy Staff in the White House under President Carter, has consulted for various governments and private sector organizations, and was the president of L-BS International, Ltd., a management consulting and public policy research firm.  She has published six books, three monographs, and more than 70 articles on public policy, management, leadership, crisis management, and gender issues.  Her book, "The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent World" (Jossey-Bass, 1996), paperback (Oxford University Press, 2000), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  "Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using THem to Ignite Your Organization", with Harold J. Leavitt, professor emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business, was the American Publishers' Association "Business Book of the Year."  Her most recent book is "The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians - and How We Can Survive Them" (Oxford University Press, 2004).  Professor Lipman-Blumen consults to numerous public and private sector organizations in the U.S. and abroad.  She also serves on several editorial and other not-for-profit boards, including the International Leadership Association and the De Pree Leadership Center.