Launching the Leadership Academy

Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy Fellows and Project Areas

I am interested in developing technologies as powerful research and clinical tools for cancer and other diseases research. In particular, I am involved in the commercialization of a platform technology developed primarily in my research lab for the analysis of protein phosphorylation that relates to many human diseases. During the process, I am interested in understanding business practices, in...

Academy of Strategic and Organizational Leadership Journal

This field study examines the performance implications of CEO succession plans and compensation perceptions in a sample of single-business manufacturing firms. Zajac (1990) tested these relationships in his "CEO-issues model of firm performance" using a sample of the largest U.S. corporations. Our study replicates Zajac's (1990) earlier work, but uses a sample of CEOs who head smaller, single-b...

Health leadership training academy tackles worst first.

Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy Fellows and Project Areas

Jessica Huber, [email protected] Scholar Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, Associate Professor – Scholar I am interested in developing technologies to improve quality of life for individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD). In particular, I am interested in developing methods to improve communication and reduce falls. As a participant in the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy, I...

Realizing the vision of leadership development in an academic health center: the Woodruff Leadership Academy.

In 2001, senior administrators in Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) designated leadership as the central element of a new strategic plan, believing that an academic health center (AHC) requires excellence in leadership at all organizational levels to carry out the tripartite mission of teaching, research, and patient care. Leadership development in academic medicine pres...