Jane Wei-Skillern

Lecturer, Organizational Behavior

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Jane Wei-Skillern

Lecturer in Organizational Behavior

Academic Area:

Organizational Behavior

Research Statement

Professor Wei-Skillern's research focuses on the leadership and culture of social impact organizations. She has examined the topics of nonprofit growth and management of multi-site nonprofits, and has spent the last decade studying nonprofit networks. Her research on nonprofit networks examines how nonprofit leaders that focus less on building their own institutions and instead invest to build strategic networks beyond their organizational boundaries can achieve dramatic gains in mission impact with the same or fewer resources. Some of her pioneering research on nonprofit networks has been published in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Foundation Review, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Bio

Jane Wei-Skillern is a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Associate Adjunct Professor in Organizational Behavior at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. From 2001-2008, she was an Assistant Professor in the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School. She taught social entrepreneurship and nonprofit strategy courses in MBA and Executive programs at HBS, and the MPA program at the Kennedy School of Government. At the GSB she has co-taught with Rick Aubry in the MBA elective, Social Entrepreneurship, which explores how to make a difference in the world through leadership and social innovation in organizations and how to achieve effective, efficient sustained impact through catalyzing networks.

Jane Wei-Skillern is the author and co-author of dozens of HBS case studies, book chapters, and journal articles. She is the lead author of the casebook Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector (Sage Publications, 2007) with colleagues Jim Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson.

Jane Wei-Skillern earned a BS in business from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, an MA in business research, and a PhD in organizational behavior, both from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Academic Degrees

PhD, Stanford University, 2000
MA, Stanford University, 1996
BS, University of California at Berkeley, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, 1995

Academic Appointments

Lecturer, Organizational Behavior, Stanford GSB, currently
Visiting Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley, currently
Assistant Professor, General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Group, Harvard Business School, 2001-2008
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior, London Business School, 2000-2001