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About the Author

Heidi K. Gardner, PhD, is a distinguished fellow in the Center

on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. She also serves as

a lecturer on law and the faculty chair of the school’s Accelerated

Leadership Program executive course. She was previously on

the faculty at Harvard Business School, and continues to teach

executive programs there. Gardner has also been awarded an

International Research Fellowship at Oxford University’s Said

Business School.

Gardner’s research received the Academy of Management’s

prize for Paper with Outstanding Practical Implications for

Management. She has authored or coauthored more than fifty

book chapters, case studies, and articles in scholarly and prac-

titioner journals, including several in ...