MIT World Speakers

Deborah G. Ancona

Ancona researches core leadership capabilities and how teams manage both their internal and external dynamics to obtain high performance. Her book Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes, (South-Western College Publishing, 1999) centers on the skills and processes needed in today's diverse and changing organizations.

She received her B.A. and M.S. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in Management from Columbia University. She taught at the Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, before joining the faculty at MIT in 1985.