Professor Eric Abrahamson is the Hughie E. Mills Professor of Business Management at Columbia Business School. He holds degrees from New York University (Ph.D. and M.Ph. Beta Gamma Sigma). After teaching at New York University, professor Abrahamson joined the Columbia Business School faculty in 1989. He has taught at the London Business School in the UK, and was also a visiting Professor at INSEAD in France.
In his theory and applied work, Professor Abrahamson is internationally recognized for his research and teaching on innovative techniques for strategic planning, organizational design, and execution, as well as their diffusion across organizations.
Professor Abrahamson is the author of the book Change Without Pain published by the Harvard Business School Press. The Book was awarded the top business books of the year ranking by Strategy and Business, and was ranked by them as the best book for 2004 on the topic of Change Management. Professor Abrahamson’s most recent book A Perfect Mess, 2007, has been widely publicized and translated into twenty-three languages. Professor Abrahamson’s work has been featured in managerially oriented publications, most recently in Fast Company, Fortune, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Sloan Management Review, and many foreign publications.
Professor Abrahamson is an active instructor in executive education programs around the world. He has worked with Aviva, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb, ConEd, Deutsche Telekom, Deloitte Touch & Tomatsu, Ericsson, Financial Times, GKN plc, IPSOS, the King Khalid foundation, Novartis, the NYC Police Department, Roche Pharmaceutical, Philip Morris, SONY, Sun Microsystems, Telefonica, Thompson Publishing, and the US Custom Service. He has developed five distance-learning courses for Unext.Com. At Columbia business school, he teaches courses on leadership, strategic management, managing organizations, and on the use of power and influence in organizations to achieve wide scale, successful, and lasting organizational change.
In his academic work, Professor Abrahamson is internationally recognized for his research on innovation diffusion generally, and fashions in management techniques, more particularly. His work has won two of the most prestigious awards in the management area, the Award for the Best Article published in the Academy of Management Journal (1995) and two Best Paper Awards of the Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division (1990; 1997). He is a past consulting editor for the Academy of Management Review and program chair of the Organizational and Management Theory division of the Academy of Management. He is or has been on the editorial boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Strategic Organization and the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research. He as published numerous articles and book chapters that have appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Administrative Science Quarterly, Advances in Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, the Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Organization Science.
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