How do organizations achieve their own, specific goals? Organizations face a range of challenges and goals, including attracting and combining skills and talents, consistently innovating, and securing profits. In order to achieve such goals -and more- organizations have learned to leverage various mechanisms, which this course explores. This course is designed to help students develop their understanding of why some organizational solutions work, and how to find and implement these solutions, by drawing from evolutionary social sciences and a broad range of case studies.
3 units · GSB Letter Graded
How do organizations achieve their own, specific goals? Organizations face a range of challenges and goals, including attracting and combining skills and talents, consistently innovating, and securing profits. In order to achieve such goals -and more- organizations have learned to leverage various mechanisms, which this course explores. This course is designed to help students develop their understanding of why some organizational solutions work, and how to find and implement these solutions, by drawing from evolutionary social sciences and a broad range of case studies.
Offered in Winter 2026 at Stanford University.