Barbara Larson

Barbara Larson is Executive Professor of Management and Partnerships Director at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, where she has been on faculty since 2012. Dr. Larson teaches courses in managing change and disruption, innovation management, high-performing teams and organizational behavior. She conducts research on virtual work and remote work, and training of digital workers. Her work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Management Science, and Management Teaching Review, among other outlets.

Before her academic career, Larson spent 15 years in various international finance and operations roles in industry, most recently as Director of International Finance at R.R. Donnelley. She earned her doctorate (D.B.A.) from Harvard Business School, M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Education

• DBA Management, Harvard University
  
• MBA, University of Pennsylvania
  
• BA Spanish, University of Virginia

Services to the Profession

Academy of Management: Named one of top 25 reviewers, International Management Division (IMD), 2009; Doctoral Committee member (invited), IMD, 2007-2009; Paper Session Discussant, 2009; Reviewer, 2007, 2009-2012 Annual Meetings.

Academy of International Business, member 2005 & 2009: Reviewer, AIB 2006 Annual Meeting.

University of Illinois CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research): Member, Business Advisory Council (invited), 2003-4.

Awards & Recognition

PhD Sustainability Academy, Richard Ivey School, Univ of Western Ontario (fully funded), 2010

Harvard Business School Wyss Doctoral Fellowship, 2005-2011

Publications

Selected Publications

Edmondson, A. C., Larson, B. (2014), The Deep: Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector (A and B cases). Harvard Business Publishing.

Larson, Barbara Zepp and Brandon H. Lee (2011), "Finding a home: The organizational entry and ending points of an innovation."

Larson, Barbara Zepp (2012), "The strategic participation decisions of social movement organizations."

Larson, Barbara Zepp (2010), "Discourse or Protest? The impact of mass-mobilized communications on government regulation of business."

Presentations

Selected Presentations

Larson, Babara (Presenter & Author), Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, "Teaching virtual management skills: Do We Need to Think Different?", OBTS, Asheville, NC. (June 2013).

Larson, Babara (Presenter & Author), SPRU seminar, "The strategic participation decisions of social movement organizations", University of Sussex - Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, Brighton, UK. (April 2012).

Larson, Babara (Presenter & Author), AOM Annual Meeting, "The strategic participation decisions of social movement organizations", Academy of Management, San Antonio, TX. (August 2011).