Leading & Managing Globally

Experienced Faculty

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  James Baron

  William S. Beinecke Professor of Management, Yale School of Management

  Professor Baron’s research interests include human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets, and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies.

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  James Baron

  William S. Beinecke Professor of Management, Yale School of Management

  Professor Baron’s research interests include human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets, and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies.

  Before coming to SOM, Baron taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business from 1982-2006. At Stanford, he was co-director of the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC), a large-scale longitudinal study of the organizational design, human resource management practices, and financial and non-financial performance measures of entrepreneurial firms in Silicon Valley. Papers based on the project have appeared in leading disciplinary journals, and an overview of the project in California Management Review won the Accenture Award for making “the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.”

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  Ina Toegel

  Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change

  Named one of the top business school professors globally by Poets&Quants, which included her on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list in 2021, Ina Toegel’s work focuses on how to build and sustain high-performance teams. She started her career as an economist at the World Bank – an atypical background which…

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  Ina Toegel

  Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change

  Named one of the top business school professors globally by Poets&Quants, which included her on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list in 2021, Ina Toegel’s work focuses on how to build and sustain high-performance teams. She started her career as an economist at the World Bank – an atypical background which means she adopts an interdisciplinary approach in her work. Meanwhile, her strong interest in the creative industries inspires her to incorporate interactive tools from the fields of film, sports, music, and the arts in her teaching.

  Toegel says teams play a crucial role as vehicles for change in organizations seeking to make major transformations. Her approach when engaging with companies is to work with project teams or individual units in an agile way – looking at the individual make-up of the team, dynamics within the team, and how these relationships are embedded in the organizational context. Much of her work involves leading organizational change and aligning organizational culture with strategic priorities.

  She is also keen on leveraging technology to enable executives to develop new ways of working, communicating, and collaborating. She uses virtual reality to explore how teams improve over time, and is investigating how AI can be used to recognize emotions – as well as its implications for an organization’s business, how it structures its operations, and how it works with customers.

  She has led and taught on customized leadership programs for a wide range of organizations, including Hilti, Pirelli, Tetra Pak, Beiersdorf, Société Générale, DNB, DENSO, Vontobel, Buehler, Legrand, UEFA, MANE, Siam Commercial Bank, Bank of Communications, Bayer, Electrolux, ASSA ABLOY, T-Systems, Carlsberg, JTI, Hydro, and Tenaris.

  She also leads IMD’s Teams Reimagined open program and the culture transformation stream of its MBA and EMBA courses.

  Poets & Quants said her inclusion on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list was a recognition of her structured and inspirational approach to working with team dynamics and organizational culture transformation. She received nearly 100 nominations for the honor, making her one of the most nominated professors in its history. Participants, alumni, and faculty colleagues who nominated her praised her energetic style and ability to get people thinking, with one describing her as “our Socrates.”