MIT Sloan appoints innovation expert Hal Gregersen to head the MIT Leadership Center
MIT Sloan announced the appointment of Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator’s DNA, to its faculty. Gregersen will serve as both the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and as a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation in the Work and Organization Studies Group.
Gregersen comes to MIT from INSEAD, where he held the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Chaired Professorship of Innovation and Leadership. Previously, he taught at the London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Helsinki School of Economics, Brigham Young University, and the Turku School of Economics as a Fulbright Fellow. Gregersen is also a Senior Fellow at Innosight, the consulting firm, and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience.
“I have spent my career looking at how leaders behave innovatively and transform their organizations,” he said. “I can think of no better place than MIT Sloan and the MIT Leadership Center—both hotbeds of creativity and invention—to continue my work. I am thrilled to be here.”
MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein described Gregersen as “a talented and engaging teacher, who cares deeply about the school’s commitment to action learning.”
“Hal is a person who not only studies how managers create innovation and change, but exemplifies the qualities of a leader who understands how to cultivate creativity in organizations and in the rising generation of leaders,” he said. “I’m delighted to welcome him to MIT Sloan.”
