About the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO)

CEO HAS A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL reputation for research on a wide range of organizational effectiveness issues. It does research that actively involves corporations in researching and developing new knowledge about how organizations can be more effective and competitive. It is also widely recognized for its outstanding executive education programs in human resources management, organization design, and leadership. Business Week ranks them among the top three university programs.

Pioneering research in the areas of compensation, performance management, employee involvement, organization change and design, organizational learning, human resources management, and sustainable effectiveness has positioned CEO as a leading authority in these fields and given it the ability to inform and influence corporate practices.

CEO is regularly mentioned in published listings of university-based research centers as one of the top three organizational effectiveness research centers in the United States. Fortune magazine recently cited CEO as one of the major sources of research information on U.S. industrial competitiveness.

CEO research findings have been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Human Relations, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. CEO research findings have been reported and quoted in many leading business and popular publications including Business Week, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. They have also been featured on the Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC.

CEO researchers have published over 30 books, including books that are targeted to an academic market and books that are written for practitioners.

CEO research scientists are thought leaders in their respective fields and have been honored by the Academy of Management, the American Compensation Association, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Human Resource Management, and other national and international professional associations.