Author: Shad Morris

Shad Morris is the Georgia White Fellow and Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, in the USA. He teaches and conducts research at the intersection of human resource management and strategy. In particular, he explores empirical problems related to how companies invest in employee competencies and social networks to build organizational capabilities in a global market. In addition to his full-time position at the Marriott School, he is a Research Fellow at Cambridge University’s Centre for International Human Resource Management and has been a visiting professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Copenhagen Business School, and the Indian School of Business. He has coauthored two other books: Managing People and Knowledge in Professional Service Firms and Managing Human Resources. He has also published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Human Resource Management. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked for the World Bank, Management Systems International, and Alcoa.