Ranjay Gulati, professeur à la Harvard Business School, sera à Paris en octobre et donnera une conférence sur la manière dont les leaders d’aujourd’hui peuvent se mobiliser et agir face à l’incertitude.
Au cours de cette conférence, le professeur Gulati abordera l’importance, pour les leaders, d’adopter des modes de pensée permettant de neutraliser ou d’atténuer nos peurs. En modifiant notre perception de nous-mêmes et du monde, nous pouvons réduire les risques de paralysie dans l’instant, tout en maintenant notre courage sur la durée. Il explorera également comment les leaders peuvent inspirer leur entourage à faire preuve de ce qu’il appelle un courage collectif.
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Ranjay Gulati
Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration
Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing human potential, has shown how winning companies—those that prosper both in good times and bad—drive growth and prosperity. His recent work explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets. Some of his prior work has focused on the enablers and implications of within-firm and inter-firm collaboration. He has looked at both when and how firms should leverage greater connectivity within and across their boundaries to enhance performance.
Professor Gulati is the recipient of the 2024 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice. The award “recognizes excellence in the application of theory and research in practice,” honoring a scholar whose research generates learning from practice, who authors publications that substantively affect the practice of management, and who integrates research and practice. He was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist, Financial Times, and the Economist Intelligence Unit have listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice.
Professor Gulati is a prolific author, with his most recent book, How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage (Harper Business, 2025) being released in September 2025. Gulati offers a powerful playbook for becoming bolder and braver than we ever thought possible. Rather than leaving brave deeds to mythological heroes and resigning ourselves to apathy or cowardice, Gulati argues that we can train ourselves to step up and act in the face of uncertainty, and offers a science-backed playbook on how to do so. His previous book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies (Harper Collins, 2022) offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms get purpose right. It was picked to be among the best business books of 2022 by Forbes, Thinkers 50, the Next Big Idea Club, and Axiom business books. His previous managerial book, Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization (Harvard Business Press, 2009), which was a finalist for the George Terry Best Book in Management Award, Professor Gulati explores how "resilient" companies—those that prosper both in good times and bad—drive growth and increase profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers.
Professor Gulati is the past-President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and an elected fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He has been a Harvard MacArthur Fellow and a Sloan Foundation Fellow. His research has been published in leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, American Journal of Sociology, Strategic Management Journal, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, strategy+business, and the Financial Times.
Professor Gulati advises and speaks to corporations large and small around the globe. He is the former Chair of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He has received a number of awards for his teaching including the Best Professor Award for his teaching in the MBA and executive MBA programs at the Kellogg School where he was on the faculty prior to coming to Harvard.
He has been a frequent guest on CNBC as well as a panelist on several of their series on topics that include: the Business of Innovation, Collaboration, and Leadership Vision. Professor Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a Master's Degree in Management from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor's Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
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