Jennifer Howard-Grenville

Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville is a Canadian-British organisational scientist, and Diageo Professor of Organisation Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School. She is known for her work on organisation change, environmental sustainability, and organisational culture.

Education Howard-Grenville received a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University in 1990. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1990 and received an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from the University in Oxford in 1992. In 2000, she obtained a Ph.D. in Technology, Policy, and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career After receiving her Ph.D. in 2000, Howard-Grenville served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies for one year before moving to Boston University School of Management. From 2007 until 2015 she was at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business serving first as an assistant professor and then associate professor, where for the year 2013 she was the Thomas C. Stewart Distinguished Professor. In In 2015, Howard-Grenville moved to the Cambridge Judge Business School, where as of 2024 she is the Diageo Professor of Organisation Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School. and leadership of change through culture. While at the University of Oregon, Howard-Grenville worked with students on Industrial ecology and implemented projects that would benefit the community.

Honours and awards In 2010, Howard-Grenville and co-authors received the Academy of Management Division Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Journal for their paper Sensemaking from the Body: An Enactive Ethnography of Rowing the Amazon. Howard-Grenville was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2021.

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