Jan 19, 2026 | Leading Organizations, Sanger Research Lab
In a recent issue of The Executive Edge, a quarterly newsletter from Michigan Ross Executive Education, leaders are challenged to rethink how culture is built, sustained, and experienced amid shifting expectations, technological change, and evolving definitions of...
Dec 8, 2025 | Leading Organizations, Values
This fall, the Sanger Leadership Center partnered with Michigan Ross faculty members Aparna Joshi and Walt Sowden to support the capstone experience in MO 503: Leading People & Organizations, a core Full-Time MBA course that challenges students to navigate the...
Dec 1, 2025 | Leading Organizations, Sanger Research Lab
As companies continue to debate “return-to-office” policies, Professor Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, a member of the Sanger Research Lab, argues that leaders should stop focusing on where people work and start rethinking how they collaborate. In a recent University of...
Nov 7, 2025 | Leading Organizations, Sanger News, Leadership Dialogues, Alumni
On November 6, 2025, the Sanger Leadership Center hosted Tiffanie Boyd (MBA ’98, BBA ’94), executive vice president and chief people officer at McDonald’s and member of the Sanger Advisory Board, for the latest installment of the Leadership Dialogues speaker series....
Oct 14, 2025 | Leading Organizations, Managing Teams, Sanger Research Lab
A new study published in Organization Science by researchers from the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of Toronto finds that the long-standing “second-class citizen” stigma attached to remote workers can weaken when organizations adopt...
Jan 15, 2025 | Michigan Model, Leading Organizations, Lindy Greer
In today’s dynamic business environment, leaders face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Dr. Lindy Greer, faculty director of the Sanger Leadership Center and Michigan Ross professor, offers timely insights in a recent article, Advice for Business Leaders in...
Dec 14, 2023 | Managing Teams, Leading Organizations
Authored by Michelle Austin and Erica Haughton Organizations love a good buzzword. Nowhere does this become more evident than in a review of corporate values statements. In a 2021 study of 525 company values statements, the most commonly cited values included...
Apr 18, 2023 | Leading Organizations, Sanger Programs, Leadership Dialogues, Featured Post
Maize and blue Nikes, storytelling, empathy, and sustainability: four topics that came into conversation on April 10, 2023, during a chat with the chief financial officer of General Mills, Kofi Bruce, MBA ’98. Bruce joined the Sanger Leadership Center at...
Apr 6, 2023 | Self-Leadership, Purpose, Leading Organizations, Sanger News
Becoming a leader is a journey that requires significant effort, determination, and self-belief. However, many tend to believe that leaders are born, not made. They think that leadership is an innate talent that some people possess and others don’t. In a recent...
Apr 6, 2023 | Leading Organizations, Sanger News, Lindy Greer
In the modern workplace, the concept of “hierarchical flexing” has emerged as a way to manage teams and projects more effectively. This technique involves adjusting the level of control and oversight given to team members based on their experience and the...
Mar 28, 2023 | Leading Organizations, Sanger News, Lindy Greer
“Many companies emphasize the importance of increasing diversity and inclusion in decision-making teams and promoting processes that encourage employees to express their differences in opinion. It is naive, however, to expect that once diversity is present and...
Feb 16, 2023 | Lindy Greer, Leading Organizations
Leadership styles are not one size fits all. Leaders must be able to pivot, adjusting to the situation at hand. Hippos, or the highest paid person in organizations, should know when to be out of the water and leading from the front, or below the water, empowering...
