Emily Tedards

Doctoral Student in Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School · Co-author, Genius at Scale · Doctoral Fellow, Reimagining the Economy Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

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Audiences leave with a playbook for scaling innovation beyond the boundaries of any one team or company, and a new lens on how cross-sector collaboration turns problems like economic development and climate change into shared opportunity.

Sustainability & ESG Corporate Sustainability Climate Change Supply Chain Resilience

Boston, United States

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About Emily Tedards

Emily Tedards studies how organizations work together to solve problems too big for any one of them: local economic development, climate change, the transformation of industries and nations. She researches cross-sector collaboration, organizational design and innovation.

Her research draws on collaborations with multinational companies, start-ups and non-profits across the globe, including Comcast NBCUniversal, Delta Air Lines, Google, Mastercard, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dubai International Financial Centre, African Food Changemakers, Sampark Foundation, All Nippon Airways and Together for Sustainability. She has published case studies and articles on leadership, innovation ecosystems, digital transformation, and corporate accelerators and innovation labs, including the Harvard Business Review articles "Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making" and "Why Great Innovations Fail to Scale."

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Emily's Keynote Topics

When firms shift their thinking from competition to collaboration, the results can be powerful. According to Harvard Business School graduate researcher Emily Tedards, when organizations work together, whether they’re in different industries or sectors, they positively impact everything from local economic development to climate change. In this uplifting session, Tedards details how private-private and private-public cross-sector partnerships can achieve research and development breakthroughs, set new standards, empower growth and prosperity, and solve big societal problems. Audiences leave with a new lens on how setting aside competition in favor of collaboration can scale innovation across industries, regions, and lift all boats in service of society at large.

At today’s speed of business and competition, effective decision-making is more vital than ever. When executing breakthrough ideas could be the difference between organizational survival and failure, how can leaders cultivate environments where agile, innovative decision-making can flourish? In this eye-opening presentation, Harvard Business School graduate researcher Emily Tedards draws on her highly-praised Harvard Business Review article, “Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making,” to teach leaders how to balance cadence, various points of view and even conflicts to coalesce around choices that will enhance innovative outcomes. Audiences leave with practical steps for bringing together agility, experimentation, highly relevant data and diverse viewpoints to turn decision-making roadblocks into new ways of moving from ideation to successful innovation.

Classic management theory details how executives should think about their overall organization and its structure. But, according to Harvard Business School graduate researcher Emily Tedards, modern leadership requires a more holistic, system-wide approach. In this revealing presentation, she draws on her co-authored book Genius at Scale to explain that today’s most successful leaders deliver value for their firms and society by driving innovation at the interorganizational level. In addition to learning how today’s executives can personally manage their organizations, teams and even themselves, audiences gain practical insight from this timely talk. They leave with principles and inspirational examples that activate a sense of possibility for scaling innovation, transformation and culture change by influencing the behavior of individuals and organizations beyond the bounds of their formal authority.

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