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Biography
Shad Morris (Ph.D., Cornell) is Director of the Whitmore Global Business Center and the Leslie & Dorothy Stone Professor of Management at Brigham Young University. With extensive international experience—including roles with the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, Samsung's SKK Graduate School of Business in Korea, and Honeywell in Shanghai—he has also been a Fulbright Scholar and Cambridge Research Fellow. He has taught at MIT, The Ohio State University, Indian School of Business, Copenhagen Business School, and Bocconi University in Italy. Shad is committed to leveraging his worldwide experience to inspire and prepare students to become global leaders capable of making positive changes in themselves and the world.
Selected Publications
- "4 Strategies to Cultivate an Authentic Corporate Purpose", Harvard Business Review, 2023
- "From Local Modification to Global Innovation: How Multinational R&D Units Solve Problems in Emerging Economies", Journal of International Business Studies, 2023
- "The HR ecosystem: Emerging trends and a future research agenda", Human Resource Management, 2023
- "The Impact of Growth Mindset Training on Entrepreneurial Action Among Necessity Entrepreneurs: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2023
- "Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice—FTE", Academy of Management Review, Edition 1, Volume 48, 2023
- "Abstract versus Concrete: How Managers’ Construal Influences Organizational Control Systems and Problem Solving", Organization Science, 2022
- "Dancing with the Stars: The Practical Value of Theory in Managing Star Employees", Academy of Management Perspectives, 2021
- "Time for Realignment: How Complex Adaptive Systems Can Help Reframe SHRM Research", Academy of Management Perspectives, 2021
- "Individual Performance and Taking on Firm-Specific Roles: The Case of Business School Associate Deans", Academy of Management Journal, 2021
- "Principles or Templates? The Antecedents and Performance Effects of Cross-Border Knowledge Transfer", Strategic Management Journal, Volume 40, 2019
- "Human Capital in Strategy 2008-2018", Strategic Management Journal, 2019
- "Reading the Stars: Determining Human Capital’s Value in the Competitive Hiring Process", Human Resource Management, Volume 57, 2018
- "Firm-Specific Human Capital Investments as a Signal of General Value: Revisiting Assumptions about Human Capital and How it is Managed", Strategic Management Journal, Volume 38, 2017
- "An architectural framework for global talent management", Volume 47, Journal of International Business Studies, 2016
- "Changing routine: reframing performance management within a multinational", Volume 52, Journal of Management Studies, 2015
- "The importance of client heterogeneity in predicting make-or-buy decisions", Volume 33, Journal of Operations Management, 2015
- "Going the distance: The pros and cons of expanding employees’ global knowledge reach", Edition 5, Volume 46, Journal of International Business Studies, 2015
- "A Microfoundations Approach to Transnational Capabilities: The Role of Knowledge Search in an Ever-Changing World", Journal of International Business Studies, 2014
- "Adaptations to Knowledge Templates in Base-of-the-Pyramid Markets: The Role of Social Interaction", Volume 8, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2014
- "Scarce Human Capital in Managerial Labor Markets", Volume 40, Journal of Management, 2014
- "Catching falling stars: A human resource response to social capital’s detrimental effect of information overload for star employees", Academy of Management Review, Volume 37, 2012
- "Six Principles of Effective Global Talent Management", MIT Sloan Management Review, Volume 53, 2012
- "Intellectual Capital Configurations and Organizational Capability: An Empirical Examination of Human Resource Subunits in the Multinational Enterprise", Journal of International Business Studies, Volume 42, 2011
- "Context-bound configurations of corporate HR functions in multinational corporations around the globe", Human Resource Management, Volume 49, 2010
- "Dynamic HR: Global Applications from IBM", Human Resource Management, Volume 48, 2009
- "Global Challenges to Replicating HR: The Role of People, Processes, and Systems", Human Resource Management, Volume 48, 2009
- "To Boost Knowledge Transfer, Tell Me a Story", Harvard Business Review, Volume 87, 2009
- "Relational archetypes, organizational learning, and value creation: Extending the human resource architecture", Volume 32, Academy of Management Review, 2007
Languages
- Bulgarian
Professional Citizenship
- Academy of Management Review, Editor, Associate Editor, July 2020–January 2024