James L. Heskett is an American academic. He is the UPS Foundation Professor of Business Logistics, Emeritus at the

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

Early life

James L. Heskett earned a PhD from the

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

Career

Heskett first taught at the Ohio State University. In 1965, he joined the faculty at the Harvard Business School. He has also been the senior associate dean for educational programs at the HBS. In this capacity, he helped reduce the workload for MBAs, on the assumption that they had previously been bombarded with too much information they could not take in. Heskett is the co-author of seven books and the sole author of one more book. In his 1992 book called ''Corporate Culture and Performance'', co-authored with his HBS colleague John Kotter, Heskett studied 200 companies and concluded that adaptable corporate cultures led to higher financial returns. He is also a prolific case writer and also featured on the list of The Case Centre's all-time top authors list (covering 40 years) released in 2014.

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References

Living people Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Ohio State University faculty Harvard Business School faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-business-academic-bio-stub