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CEO, with USC's Center for Sustainable Cities, is convening a research conference on Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability:  Designing Organizations for the Triple Bottom Line, October 2-3, 2008.

 

Applications Now Available

2008 Winners List

 

 

 

Developing Your Organization's Leaders: New Generations, New Directions

in Los Angeles

September 16 - 17, 2008

 

 

Strategic Organization Design

in Los Angeles

September 23 - 26, 2008

 

 

 

Strategic Partnership with Impact

in New York City

October 27 - 29, 2008 

  

 
 
Talent:  Making People Your Competitive Advantage by Edward E. Lawler
Investing in People:  Financial Impact of Human Resource Issues by Wayne Cascio and John Boudreau

Beyond HR:  The New Science of Human Capital  by John W. Boudreau and Peter M. Ramstad
The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders edited by Jay A. Conger and Ronald E. Riggio

America at Work: Choices and Challenges, edited by Edward E. Lawler III and James O'Toole
The New American Workplace  by James O'Toole and Edward E. Lawler III
Achieving Strategic Excellence: An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations by Edward E. Lawler, John W. Boudreau and Susan Albers Mohrman
Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness by Edward E. Lawler and Chris Worley 
Human Capital and Effective Organizations Certificate

 

  • Lawler Wins Top Award:  CEO Director is 2007 recipient of the Academy of Management Distinguished
    Scholar-Practitioner Award     

  • 2006 Corporate Board Survey Study Highlights
    The 10th Annual Corporate Board Effectiveness Study was conducted by Heidrick & Struggles and the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California?s Marshall School of Business (October 2006)

  • DOE Research Homepage -- Department of Energy-Sponsored Research on Knowledge Networks in Government-Sponsored Basic Research

  • Strategic HR Learning Leaders Forum -- joint offering from CEO and eePulse, Inc. -- gives subscribing companies the chance to apply pulse-survey technology in their HR organizations, at a significant discount, and to combine the survey information with a select group of peer organizations
  • TRS Report:  Special White Paper for CEO Sponsor Company Members:  Talent Readiness Strategies

    Complete report is available free to members of CEO sponsor companies. (Click for a list of sponsor companies.)

    Non-CEO sponsor company members have access to summary and headlines.

  About About us

Since its founding in 1979, the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) has conducted cutting-edge research on a broad range of organizational effectiveness issues. The leading university-based action-research center, CEO, has conducted research that influences how organizations are managed while also making important contributions to academic research and theory from its inception. The Center for Effective Organization's pioneering research in the areas of organizational design and effectiveness has earned it an international reputation for research that bridges the gap between academic theory and management practice.

CEO actively involves corporations in developing new and useful knowledge about how organizations can be more effective in highly competitive environments. In order to carry out this research, the Center is staffed by researchers who are leading scholars in their respective fields. Our staff members respond to a wide range of stakeholders by providing outstanding customer service, data analysis and administrative support.

Results from Center research projects are reported and published in many leading business publications and academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Industry Week, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Members of the Center also have published over 30 books that are based on their research.

It is CEO's cutting-edge research on important business issues that places it at the forefront of developments concerning organizational effectiveness and business management.


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