15 Facts About Julie Battilana

Julie Battilana is a scholar, educator, and advisor in the areas of social innovation and social change at Harvard University.

Julie Battilana is the Joseph C Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Julie Battilana is the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation and Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Julie Battilana holds a degree from HEC School of Management, and a joint PhD in organizational behavior from INSEAD and in management and economics from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay.

Julie Battilana's research has been featured in publications like Businessweek, Forbes, Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, and Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Julie Battilana has been a regular contributor to the French newspaper, Le Monde.

Julie Battilana is the coauthor of Power, for All: How it Works and Why it's Everyone's Business, written with Tiziana Casciaro.

Julie Battilana is the coauthor of Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, co-authored with Isabelle Ferreras and Dominique Meda.

Julie Battilana has published many academic articles in the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly, Management Science, Organization, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Management, Research in Organizational Behavior, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Strategic Organization.

Julie Battilana has produced multiple articles for practitioners in outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

In 2024, Julie Battilana was awarded an honorary doctorate from Louvain School of Management at the Universite catholique du Louvain.

Julie Battilana was conferred as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques in 2019.

Julie Battilana was named as a 2019 social innovation thought leader by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.

Julie Battilana has taught courses about power and social change at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School since 2010.

Julie Battilana previously taught the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course at HBS.